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LLMs have garnered considerable attention for their potential to streamline Automated Program Repair (APR). LLM-based approaches can either insert the correct code or directly generate patches when provided with buggy methods. However, most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qiong Feng , Xiaotian Ma , Jiayi Sheng , Ziyuan Feng , Wei Song , Peng Liang

Recent advancements in generative AI have led to the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) in software engineering, addressing numerous long-standing challenges. However, a comprehensive study examining the capabilities of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ting Zhang , Chengran Yang , Yindu Su , Martin Weyssow , Hung Nguyen , Tan Bui , Hong Jin Kang , Yikun Li , Eng Lieh Ouh , Lwin Khin Shar , David Lo

Deep Learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful tool for vulnerability detection, often outperforming traditional solutions. However, developing effective DL models requires large amounts of real-world data, which can be difficult to obtain in…

Fuzzing, a widely-used technique for bug detection, has seen advancements through Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite their potential, LLMs face specific challenges in fuzzing. In this paper, we identified five major challenges of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yu Jiang , Jie Liang , Fuchen Ma , Yuanliang Chen , Chijin Zhou , Yuheng Shen , Zhiyong Wu , Jingzhou Fu , Mingzhe Wang , ShanShan Li , Quan Zhang

As Ethereum continues to thrive, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) has become the cornerstone powering tens of millions of active smart contracts. Intuitively, security issues in EVMs could lead to inconsistent behaviors among smart…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jie Ma , Ningyu He , Jinwen Xi , Mingzhe Xing , Haoyu Wang , Ying Gao , Yinliang Yue

The automated program repair field has attracted substantial interest over the years, but despite significant research efforts, creating a system that works well for complex semantic bugs such as security vulnerabilities has proven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Berkay Berabi , Alexey Gronskiy , Veselin Raychev , Gishor Sivanrupan , Victor Chibotaru , Martin Vechev

Despite various approaches being employed to detect vulnerabilities, the number of reported vulnerabilities shows an upward trend over the years. This suggests the problems are not caught before the code is released, which could be caused…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Karl Tamberg , Hayretdin Bahsi

More and more users and developers are using Issue Tracking Systems (ITSs) to report issues, including bugs, feature requests, enhancement suggestions, etc. Different information, however, is gathered from users when issues are reported on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yuxiang Zhu , Minxue Pan , Yu Pei , Tian Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited exceptional performance in software engineering yet face challenges in adapting to continually evolving code knowledge, particularly regarding the frequent updates of third-party library APIs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Chenlong Wang , Zhaoyang Chu , Zhengxiang Cheng , Xuyi Yang , Kaiyue Qiu , Yao Wan , Zhou Zhao , Xuanhua Shi , Dongping Chen

In this paper, we present the first comprehensive empirical study of specialized LLM-based detectors and compare them with traditional static analyzers at the project scale. Specifically, our study evaluates five latest and representative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Fengjie Li , Jiajun Jiang , Dongchi Chen , Yingfei Xiong

While most autoregressive LLMs are constrained to one-by-one decoding, diffusion LLMs (dLLMs) have attracted growing interest for their potential to dramatically accelerate inference through parallel decoding. Despite this promise, the…

Surprisingly promising results have been achieved by deep learning (DL) systems in recent years. Many of these achievements have been reached in academic settings, or by large technology companies with highly skilled research groups and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Anders Arpteg , Björn Brinne , Luka Crnkovic-Friis , Jan Bosch

Deep Learning (DL) models have rapidly advanced, focusing on achieving high performance through testing model accuracy and robustness. However, it is unclear whether DL projects, as software systems, are tested thoroughly or functionally…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Han Wang , Sijia Yu , Chunyang Chen , Burak Turhan , Xiaodong Zhu

Efficiency is essential to support responsiveness w.r.t. ever-growing datasets, especially for Deep Learning (DL) systems. DL frameworks have traditionally embraced deferred execution-style DL code that supports symbolic, graph-based Deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Tatiana Castro Vélez , Raffi Khatchadourian , Mehdi Bagherzadeh , Anita Raja

With the development of deep learning (DL) techniques, rotating machinery intelligent diagnosis has gone through tremendous progress with verified success and the classification accuracies of many DL-based intelligent diagnosis algorithms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Zhibin Zhao , Tianfu Li , Jingyao Wu , Chuang Sun , Shibin Wang , Ruqiang Yan , Xuefeng Chen

Code large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in code debugging by directly generating the correct code based on the buggy code snippet. Programming benchmarks, typically consisting of buggy code snippet and their…

LLM-generated peer reviews are increasingly common at major venues, yet their deficiencies are hard to detect because they are uniformly fluent and well-structured. Existing work either classifies authorship without judging quality, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hanqi Duan , Xiang Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have training corpora containing large amounts of program code, greatly improving the model's code comprehension and generation capabilities. However, sound comprehensive research on detecting program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yu Liu , Lang Gao , Mingxin Yang , Yu Xie , Ping Chen , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen

Deep learning software demands reliability and performance. However, many of the existing deep learning frameworks are software libraries that act as an unsafe DSL in Python and a computation graph interpreter. We present DLVM, a design and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Richard Wei , Lane Schwartz , Vikram Adve

As large language models(LLMs) become commonplace in practical applications, the security issues of LLMs have attracted societal concerns. Although extensive efforts have been made to safety alignment, LLMs remain vulnerable to jailbreak…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Xu Zhang , Dinghao Jing , Xiaojun Wan