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Program synthesis aims to {\it automatically} find programs from an underlying programming language that satisfy a given specification. While this has the potential to revolutionize computing, how to search over the vast space of programs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yuan Yuan , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Unit testing verifies the presence of faults in individual software components. Previous research has been targeting the automatic generation of unit tests through the adoption of random or search-based algorithms. Despite their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Fabiano Pecorelli , Giovanni Grano , Fabio Palomba , Harald C. Gall , Andrea De Lucia

Code search is a task to find programming codes that semantically match the given natural language queries. Even though some of the existing datasets for this task are multilingual on the programming language side, their query data are only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ryo Sekizawa , Nan Duan , Shuai Lu , Hitomi Yanaka

The ability to invent novel and interesting problems is a remarkable feature of human intelligence that drives innovation, art, and science. We propose a method that aims to automate this process by harnessing the power of state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Julien Pourcel , Cédric Colas , Gaia Molinaro , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Laetitia Teodorescu

Code generation has emerged as one of AI's highest-impact use cases, yet existing benchmarks measure isolated tasks rather than the complete "zero-to-one" process of building a working application from scratch. We introduce Vibe Code Bench,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hung Tran , Langston Nashold , Rayan Krishnan , Antoine Bigeard , Alex Gu

Competitive programming, due to its high reasoning difficulty and precise correctness feedback, has become a key task for both training and evaluating the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, while a large amount…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zihan Wang , Siyao Liu , Yang Sun , Hongyan Li , Kai Shen

While a lot of recent research focuses on enhancing the textual reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by optimizing the multi-agent framework or reasoning chains, several benchmark tasks can be solved with 100\% success…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yongchao Chen , Harsh Jhamtani , Srinagesh Sharma , Chuchu Fan , Chi Wang

Automated random testing has shown to be an effective approach to finding faults but still faces a major unsolved issue: how to generate test inputs diverse enough to find many faults and find them quickly. Stateful testing, the automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Yi Wei , Hannes Roth , Carlo A. Furia , Yu Pei , Alexander Horton , Michael Steindorfer , Martin Nordio , Bertrand Meyer

We provide a general formulation for the code-based test compression problem with fixed-length input blocks and propose a solution approach based on Evolutionary Algorithms. In contrast to existing code-based methods, we allow unspecified…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Ilia Polian , Alejandro Czutro , Bernd Becker

Recent advancements in language modeling have enabled the translation of natural language into code, and the use of execution feedback to improve code generation. However, these methods often rely heavily on pre-existing test cases, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Nan Wang , Yafei Liu , Chen Chen , Haonan Lu

Recent advancements in natural language processing \cite{gpt2} \cite{BERT} have led to near-human performance in multiple natural language tasks. In this paper, we seek to understand whether similar techniques can be applied to a highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Luis Perez , Lizi Ottens , Sudharshan Viswanathan

Automatically generating source code from natural language descriptions has been a growing field of research in recent years. However, current large-scale code generation models often encounter difficulties when selecting appropriate APIs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Kechi Zhang , Huangzhao Zhang , Ge Li , Jia Li , Zhuo Li , Zhi Jin

Recently, pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities in generating codes from natural language descriptions, repairing buggy codes, translating codes between languages, and retrieving relevant code segments.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammad Abdullah Matin Khan , M Saiful Bari , Xuan Long Do , Weishi Wang , Md Rizwan Parvez , Shafiq Joty

We present Autonomous Data Selection (AutoDS), a method that leverages base language models themselves as zero-shot "generative classifiers" to automatically curate high-quality mathematical texts. Unlike prior approaches that require human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yifan Zhang , Yifan Luo , Yang Yuan , Andrew C Yao

Large Language Models have revolutionized code generation ability by converting natural language descriptions into executable code. However, generating complex code within real-world scenarios remains challenging due to intricate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinyi He , Jiaru Zou , Yun Lin , Mengyu Zhou , Shi Han , Zejian Yuan , Dongmei Zhang

Software is omnipresent within all factors of society. It is thus important to ensure that software are well tested to mitigate bad user experiences as well as the potential for severe financial and human losses. Software testing is however…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Jason Wang , Basem Suleiman , Muhammad Johan Alibasa

A major challenge in the field of Text Generation is evaluation: Human evaluations are cost-intensive, and automated metrics often display considerable disagreement with human judgments. In this paper, we propose a statistical model of Text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jan Deriu , Pius von Däniken , Don Tuggener , Mark Cieliebak

Large pre-trained code generation models, such as OpenAI Codex, can generate syntax- and function-correct code, making the coding of programmers more productive and our pursuit of artificial general intelligence closer. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Qinkai Zheng , Xiao Xia , Xu Zou , Yuxiao Dong , Shan Wang , Yufei Xue , Zihan Wang , Lei Shen , Andi Wang , Yang Li , Teng Su , Zhilin Yang , Jie Tang

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) poses a significant challenge to existing mathematical reasoning benchmarks. However, these benchmarks tend to become easier over time as LLMs can learn from the published benchmarks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shengbo Wang , Mingwei Liu , Zike Li , Anji Li , Yanlin Wang , Xin Peng , Zibin Zheng

The automatic generation of computer programs is one of the main applications with practical relevance in the field of evolutionary computation. With program synthesis techniques not only software developers could be supported in their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Dominik Sobania , Dirk Schweim , Franz Rothlauf