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The large models, as predicted by scaling raw forecasts, have made groundbreaking progress in many fields, particularly in natural language generation tasks, where they have approached or even surpassed human levels. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Luping Wang , Sheng Chen , Linnan Jiang , Shu Pan , Runze Cai , Sen Yang , Fei Yang

Existing API mining algorithms can be difficult to use as they require expensive parameter tuning and the returned set of API calls can be large, highly redundant and difficult to understand. To address this, we present PAM (Probabilistic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Jaroslav Fowkes , Charles Sutton

Competitive programming benchmarks are widely used in scenarios such as programming contests and large language model assessments. However, the growing presence of duplicate or highly similar problems raises concerns not only about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Han Deng , Yuan Meng , Shixiang Tang , Wanli Ouyang , Xinzhu Ma

Automated program repair is a problem of finding a transformation (called a patch) of a given incorrect program that eliminates the observable failures. It has important applications such as providing debugging aids, automatically grading…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Sergey Mechtaev , Xiang Gao , Shin Hwei Tan , Abhik Roychoudhury

Numerical stability is a crucial requirement of reliable scientific computing. However, despite the pervasiveness of Python in data science, analyzing large Python programs remains challenging due to the lack of scalable numerical analysis…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yohan Chatelain , Nigel Yong , Gregory Kiar , Tristan Glatard

API documentation, technical blogs and programming Q&A sites contain numerous partial code that can be reused in programming tasks, but often these code are uncompilable due to unresolved names and syntax errors. To facilitate partial code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Qing Huang , Jiahui Zhu , Zhenchang Xing , Huan Jin , Changjing Wang , Xiwei Xu

Due to the rise of AI applications, machine learning libraries have become far more accessible, with Python being the most common programming language to write them. Machine learning libraries tend to be updated periodically, which may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Stefanus Agus Haryono , Ferdian Thung , David Lo , Julia Lawall , Lingxiao Jiang

ChatGPT has revolutionized many research and industrial fields. ChatGPT has shown great potential in software engineering to boost various traditional tasks such as program repair, code understanding, and code generation. However, whether…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jialun Cao , Meiziniu Li , Ming Wen , Shing-chi Cheung

Automated program repair (APR) aims to help developers improve software reliability by generating patches for buggy programs. Although many code language models (CLM) are developed and effective in many software tasks such as code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Nan Jiang , Kevin Liu , Thibaud Lutellier , Lin Tan

Many modern software projects evolve rapidly to incorporate new features and security patches. It is important for users to update their dependencies to safer versions, but many still use older, vulnerable package versions because upgrading…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhiqing Zhong , Jiaming Huang , Pinjia He

Automatic Program Repair (APR) endeavors to autonomously rectify issues within specific projects, which generally encompasses three categories of tasks: bug resolution, new feature development, and feature enhancement. Despite extensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jiuang Zhao , Donghao Yang , Li Zhang , Xiaoli Lian , Zitian Yang , Fang Liu

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to enhance software reliability by automatically generating bug-fixing patches. Recent work has improved the state-of-the-art of APR by fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs), such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xuemeng Cai , Lingxiao Jiang

Dependency bloat is a persistent challenge in Python projects, which increases maintenance costs and security risks. While numerous tools exist for detecting unused dependencies in Python, removing these dependencies across the source code…

The rapid evolution of software libraries poses a considerable hurdle for code generation, necessitating continuous adaptation to frequent version updates while preserving backward compatibility. While existing code evolution benchmarks…

Fragmentation is a serious problem in the Android ecosystem. This problem is mainly caused by the fast evolution of the system itself and the various customizations independently maintained by different smartphone manufacturers. Many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Pei Liu , Yanjie Zhao , Haipeng Cai , Mattia Fazzini , John Grundy , Li Li

Automatically generating formal specifications could reduce the effort needed to improve program correctness, but in practice, this is still challenging. Many developers avoid writing contracts by hand, which limits the use of automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ragib Shahariar Ayon , Shibbir Ahmed

Automated Program Repair (APR) is a fast growing area with numerous new techniques being developed to tackle one of the most challenging software engineering problems. APR techniques have shown promising results, giving us hope that one day…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Aldeida Aleti , Matias Martinez

This paper proposes Scalene, a profiler specialized for Python. Scalene combines a suite of innovations to precisely and simultaneously profile CPU, memory, and GPU usage, all with low overhead. Scalene's CPU and memory profilers help…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Emery D. Berger , Sam Stern , Juan Altmayer Pizzorno

Developing efficient parallel applications is critical to advancing scientific development but requires significant performance analysis and optimization. Performance analysis tools help developers manage the increasing complexity and scale…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Onur Cankur , Aditya Tomar , Daniel Nichols , Connor Scully-Allison , Katherine E. Isaacs , Abhinav Bhatele

Automated Program Repair (APR) has evolved significantly with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs). Fine-tuning LLMs for program repair is a recent avenue of research, with many dimensions which have not been explored. Existing work…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 André Silva , Sen Fang , Martin Monperrus