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The rapid development of AI-based products and their underlying models has led to constant innovation in deep learning frameworks. Google has been pioneering machine learning usage across dozens of products. Maintaining the multitude of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Stoyan Nikolov , Bernhard Konrad , Moritz Gronbach , Niket Kumar , Ann Yan , Varun Singh , Yaning Liang , Parthasarathy Ranganathan

Using multiple agents was found to improve the debugging capabilities of Large Language Models. However, increasing the number of LLM-agents has several drawbacks such as increasing the running costs and rising the risk for the agents to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yacine Majdoub , Eya Ben Charrada , Haifa Touati

Consensus protocols form the backbone of distributed systems and blockchains, where implementation bugs can cause data corruption and financial losses. While LLM-based approaches show promise in code analysis, they struggle with deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiang Liu , Sa Song , Zhaowei Zhang , Huiying Lan , Jason Zeng , Ming Wu , Michael Heinrich , Yong Sun , Ceyao Zhang

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, into software engineering workflows has shown potential to enhance productivity, particularly in software testing. This paper investigates whether LLM…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Rudolf Ramler , Philipp Straubinger , Reinhold Plösch , Dietmar Winkler

In recent years, JavaScript has become the most widely used programming language, especially in web development. However, writing secure JavaScript code is not trivial, and programmers often make mistakes that lead to security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Tan Khang Le , Saba Alimadadi , Steven Y. Ko

We present Natural Language Tools (NLT), a framework that replaces programmatic JSON tool calling in large language models (LLMs) with natural language outputs. By decoupling tool selection from response generation, NLT eliminates task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Reid T. Johnson , Michelle D. Pain , Jordan D. West

JavaScript (JS) is a popular, platform-independent programming language. To ensure the interoperability of JS programs across different platforms, the implementation of a JS engine should conform to the ECMAScript standard. However, doing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Guixin Ye , Zhanyong Tang , Shin Hwei Tan , Songfang Huang , Dingyi Fang , Xiaoyang Sun , Lizhong Bian , Haibo Wang , Zheng Wang

Large language models (LLMs) and autonomous coding agents are increasingly used to generate software across a wide range of domains. Yet a core requirement remains unmet: ensuring that generated code is secure without compromising its…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Abhijeet Pathak , Suvadra Barua , Dinesh Gudimetla , Rupam Patir , Jiawei Guo , Hongxin Hu , Haipeng Cai

The advancement of natural language processing (NLP) has been significantly boosted by the development of transformer-based large language models (LLMs). These models have revolutionized NLP tasks, particularly in code generation, aiding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Dong Huang , Jie M. Zhang , Michael Luck , Qingwen Bu , Yuhao Qing , Heming Cui

Dynamic language features are widely available in programming languages to implement functionality that can adapt to multiple usage contexts, enabling reuse. Functionality such as data binding , object-relational mapping and user interface…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Li Sui , Shawn Rasheed , Amjed Tahir , Jens Dietrich

Having a high quality software is essential in software engineering, which requires robust validation and verification processes during testing activities. Manual testing, while effective, can be time consuming and costly, leading to an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Betim Sherifi , Khaled Slhoub , Fitzroy Nembhard

Just-in-time (JIT) compilers are key components for many popular programming languages with managed runtimes (e.g., Java and JavaScript). JIT compilers perform optimizations and generate native code at runtime based on dynamic profiling…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Zijian Yi , Cheng Ding , August Shi , Milos Gligoric

The VT legacy system, comprising approximately 2.5 million lines of PL/SQL code, lacks consistent documentation and automated tests, posing significant challenges for refactoring and modernisation. This study investigates the feasibility of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Lola Solovyeva , Eduardo Carneiro Oliveira , Shiyu Fan , Alper Tuncay , Shamil Gareev , Andrea Capiluppi

Large Language Model (LLM) systems have been at the forefront of applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) research in a multitude of domains. One such domain is software development, where researchers have pushed the automation of a number of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Vali Tawosi , Salwa Alamir , Xiaomo Liu , Manuela Veloso

SystemVerilog Assertions (SVAs) are essential for verifying Register Transfer Level (RTL) designs, as they can be embedded into key functional paths to detect unintended behaviours. During simulation, assertion failures occur when the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Jie Zhou , Youshu Ji , Ning Wang , Yuchen Hu , Xinyao Jiao , Bingkun Yao , Xinwei Fang , Shuai Zhao , Nan Guan , Zhe Jiang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown tremendous promise in automated software engineering. In this paper, we investigate the opportunities of LLMs for automatic regression test generation for programs that take highly structured,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jing Liu , Seongmin Lee , Eleonora Losiouk , Marcel Böhme

The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) and their integration into multi-agent systems has paved the way for sophisticated automation in various domains. This paper introduces AutoGenesisAgent, a multi-agent system that…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Jeremy Harper

Unit testing plays a critical role in ensuring software correctness. However, writing unit tests manually is labor-intensive, especially for strongly typed languages like Java, motivating the need for automated approaches. Traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Qinghua Xu , Guancheng Wang , Lionel Briand , Kui Liu

LLM-based software engineering increasingly depends on executable, context-rich bug artifacts: paired correct and buggy code, methods under test (MUTs), documentation, and metadata. These artifacts support the training and evaluation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Tasfia Tasnim , Soneya Binta Hossain

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in software vulnerability detection, particularly on function-level benchmarks like Devign and BigVul. However, real-world detection requires interprocedural analysis, as vulnerabilities often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Alperen Yildiz , Sin G. Teo , Yiling Lou , Yebo Feng , Chong Wang , Dinil M. Divakaran