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With the development of large language models (LLMs) in the field of programming, intelligent programming coaching systems have gained widespread attention. However, most research focuses on repairing the buggy code of programming learners…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhenlong Dai , Zhuoluo Zhao , Hengning Wang , Xiu Tang , Sai Wu , Chang Yao , Zhipeng Gao , Jingyuan Chen

Debugging is a fundamental skill that novice programmers must develop. Numerous tools have been created to assist novice programmers in this process. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been integrated with automated program repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Oka Kurniawan , Erick Chandra , Christopher M. Poskitt , Yannic Noller , Kenny Tsu Wei Choo , Cyrille Jegourel

Detecting and fixing bugs are two of the most important yet frustrating parts of the software development cycle. Existing bug detection tools are based mainly on static analyzers, which rely on mathematical logic and symbolic reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Dawn Drain , Chen Wu , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Neel Sundaresan

This paper addresses the issue of correcting type errors in model transformations in realistic scenarios where neither predefined patches nor behavior-safe guards such as test suites are available. Instead of using predefined patches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Zahra VaraminyBahnemiry , Jessie Galasso , Houari Sahraoui

The context of this work is specification, detection and ultimately removal of detectable harmful patterns in source code that are associated with defects in design and implementation of software. In particular, we investigate five code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Nicole Vavrová , Vadim Zaytsev

Collecting data of students solving programming tasks is incredibly valuable for researchers and educators. It allows verifying that the students correctly apply the features and concepts they are taught, or finding students'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Daniil Karol , Elizaveta Artser , Ilya Vlasov , Yaroslav Golubev , Hieke Keuning , Anastasiia Birillo

The recently proposed ToolkenGPT tool learning paradigm demonstrates promising performance but suffers from two major issues: first, it cannot benefit from tool documentation, and second, it often makes mistakes in whether to use a tool at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Konstantin Yakovlev , Sergey Nikolenko , Andrey Bout

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) should not focus only on high accuracy of corrections but also on interpretability for language learning. However, existing neural-based GEC models mainly aim at improving accuracy, and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Masahiro Kaneko , Sho Takase , Ayana Niwa , Naoaki Okazaki

This paper introduces a simple JavaScript-based web application designed to assist educators in detecting AI-generated content in student essays and written assignments. Unlike existing AI detection tools that rely on obfuscated machine…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Andy Buschmann

Static bug detection tools help developers detect code problems. However, it is known that they remain underutilized due to various reasons. Recent advances to incorporate static bug detectors in modern software development workflows can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Junjie Li

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) faces a critical challenge concerning explainability, notably when GEC systems are designed for language learners. Existing research predominantly focuses on explaining grammatical errors extracted in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jingheng Ye , Shang Qin , Yinghui Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shen Wang , Qingsong Wen

Software Fault Localization refers to the activity of finding code elements (e.g., statements) that are related to a software failure. The state-of-the-art fault localization techniques, however, produce coarse-grained results that can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Shangwen Wang , Kui Liu , Bo Lin , Li Li , Jacques Klein , Xiaoguang Mao , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

The disconnect between tokenizer creation and model training in language models allows for specific inputs, such as the infamous SolidGoldMagikarp token, to induce unwanted model behaviour. Although such `glitch tokens', tokens present in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Sander Land , Max Bartolo

A coverage type generalizes refinement types found in many functional languages with support for must-style underapproximate reasoning. Property-based testing frameworks are one particularly useful domain where such capabilities are useful…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhe Zhou , Benjamin Delaware , Suresh Jagannathan

Kubernetes is a tool that facilitates rapid deployment of software. Unfortunately, configuring Kubernetes is prone to errors. Configuration defects are not uncommon and can result in serious consequences. This paper reports an empirical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yue Zhang , Uchswas Paul , Marcelo d'Amorim , Akond Rahman

Many important security properties can be formulated in terms of flows of tainted data, and improved taint analysis tools to prevent such flows are of critical need. Most existing taint analyses use whole-program static analysis, leading to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Nima Karimipour , Kanak Das , Manu Sridharan , Behnaz Hassanshahi

Cryptic type error messages are a major obstacle to learning OCaml or other ML-based languages. In many cases, error messages cannot be interpreted without a sufficiently-precise model of the type inference algorithm. The problem of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Arthur Charguéraud

Compilers for statically typed functional programming languages are notorious for generating confusing type error messages. When the compiler detects a type error, it typically reports the program location where the type checking failed as…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Zvonimir Pavlinovic , Tim King , Thomas Wies

We treat grammatical error correction (GEC) as a classification problem in this study, where for different types of errors, a target word is identified, and the classifier predicts the correct word form from a set of possible choices. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Zhu Kaili , Chuan Wang , Ruobing Li , Yang Liu , Tianlei Hu , Hui Lin

Detecting vulnerabilities in source code is a critical task for software security assurance. Graph Neural Network (GNN) machine learning can be a promising approach by modeling source code as graphs. Early approaches treated code elements…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yu Luo , Weifeng Xu , Dianxiang Xu