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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into software applications. Downstream application developers often access LLMs through APIs provided as a service. However, LLM APIs are often updated silently and scheduled to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Wanqin Ma , Chenyang Yang , Christian Kästner

The increasing trend of using Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation raises the question of their capability to generate trustworthy code. While many researchers are exploring the utility of code generation for uncovering software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Zahra Mousavi , Chadni Islam , Kristen Moore , Alsharif Abuadbba , Muhammad Ali Babar

Research scientists increasingly rely on implementing software to support their research. While previous research has examined the impact of identifier names on program comprehension in traditional programming environments, limited work has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Gunnar Larsen , Carol Wong , Anthony Peruma

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in software development, generating code that ranges from short snippets to substantial project components. As AI-generated code becomes more common in real-world repositories, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Tianhao Mao , Dongfang Zhao , Haixu Tang , Xiaofeng Wang , Hang Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) are used in software development to assist in various tasks, e.g., code generation and code completion, but empirical evaluations of the quality of the results produced by these models focus on correctness and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Lola Solovyeva , Sophie Weidmann , Fernando Castor

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as coding assistants, capable of generating source code from natural language prompts. With the increasing adoption of LLMs in software development, academic research and industry based projects are…

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have seen rapid advancements, significantly impacting various fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, and software engineering. These LLMs, exemplified by OpenAI's ChatGPT,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Xiang Chen , Chaoyang Gao , Chunyang Chen , Guangbei Zhang , Yong Liu

Traditional optimizing compilers have played an important role in adapting to the growing complexity of modern software systems. The need for efficient parallel programming in current architectures requires strong optimization techniques.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Miguel Romero Rosas , Miguel Torres Sanchez , Rudolf Eigenmann

Pre-trained or fine-tuned on large code corpora, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in code completion tasks. However, their embedded knowledge is constrained by the timeliness of training data, which often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Guancheng Lin , Xiao Yu , Jacky Keung , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Alex X. Liu

The recent development of large language models (LLMs) with multi-billion parameters, coupled with the creation of user-friendly application programming interfaces (APIs), has paved the way for automatically generating and executing code in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Alejandro Duque , Abdullah Syed , Kastan V. Day , Matthew J. Berry , Daniel S. Katz , Volodymyr V. Kindratenko

The prevalence of cryptographic API misuse (CAM) is compromising the effectiveness of cryptography and in turn the security of modern systems and applications. Despite extensive efforts to develop CAM detection tools, these tools typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yang Zhang , Wenyi Ouyang , Yi Zhang , Liang Cheng , Chen Wu , Wenxin Hu

Library migration is the process of replacing one library with another library that provides similar functionality. Manual library migration is time consuming and error prone, as it requires developers to understand the APIs of both…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Md Mohayeminul Islam , Ajay Kumar Jha , May Mahmoud , Ildar Akhmetov , Sarah Nadi

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed through open-source and commercial frameworks, enabling individuals and organizations to self-host advanced LLM capabilities. As LLM deployments become prevalent, particularly in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xinyi Hou , Jiahao Han , Yanjie Zhao , Haoyu Wang

APIs have intricate relations that can be described in text and represented as knowledge graphs to aid software engineering tasks. Existing relation extraction methods have limitations, such as limited API text corpus and affected by the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Qing Huang , Yanbang Sun , Zhenchang Xing , Yuanlong Cao , Jieshan Chen , Xiwei Xu , Huan Jin , Jiaxing Lu

Large language models (LLMs) trained on datasets of publicly available source code have established a new state of the art in code generation tasks. However, these models are mostly unaware of the code that exists within a specific project,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Aryaz Eghbali , Michael Pradel

Library migration is the process of replacing a library with a similar one in a software project. Manual library migration is time consuming and error prone, as it requires developers to understand the Application Programming Interfaces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Mohayeminul Islam , Ajay Kumar Jha , May Mahmoud , Sarah Nadi

Large language models (LLMs) like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT have emerged as powerful tools for code generation, significantly enhancing productivity and accelerating software development. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yixi Wu , Pengfei He , Zehao Wang , Shaowei Wang , Yuan Tian , Tse-Hsun Chen

Algorithms that use Large Language Models (LLMs) to evolve code arrived on the Genetic Programming (GP) scene very recently. We present LLM GP, a formalized LLM-based evolutionary algorithm designed to evolve code. Like GP, it uses…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Erik Hemberg , Stephen Moskal , Una-May O'Reilly

Recent studies on software tool manipulation with large language models (LLMs) mostly rely on closed model APIs. The industrial adoption of these models is substantially constrained due to the security and robustness risks in exposing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Qiantong Xu , Fenglu Hong , Bo Li , Changran Hu , Zhengyu Chen , Jian Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have developed rapidly in recent years, revolutionizing various fields. Despite their widespread success, LLMs heavily rely on external code dependencies from package management systems, creating a complex and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Shuhan Liu , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , David Lo , Xiaohu Yang