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While several studies have examined the security of code generated by GPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs), most have relied on controlled experiments rather than real developer interactions. This paper investigates the security of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Vladislav Belozerov , Peter J Barclay , Ashkan Sami

Code review is a critical practice in software engineering, yet the growing scale and frequency of code patches in modern projects, together with the widespread adoption of AI code assistants, make manual review increasingly challenging.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Bar Weiss , Antonio Abu-Nassar , Adi Sosnovich , Karen Yorav

Large language models (LLMs) frequently generate defective outputs in code generation tasks, ranging from logical bugs to security vulnerabilities. While these generation failures are often treated as model-level limitations, empirical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kaifeng He , Xiaojun Zhang , Peiliang Cai , Mingwei Liu , Yanlin Wang , Chong Wang , Kaifeng Huang , Bihuan Chen , Xin Peng , Zibin Zheng

Vector database management systems (VDBMSs) play a crucial role in facilitating semantic similarity searches over high-dimensional embeddings from diverse data sources. While VDBMSs are widely used in applications such as recommendation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yinglin Xie , Xinyi Hou , Yanjie Zhao , Shenao Wang , Kai Chen , Haoyu Wang

Identifying the point of error is imperative in software debugging. Traditional fault localization (FL) techniques rely on executing the program and using the code coverage matrix in tandem with test case results to calculate a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Suhwan Ji , Sanghwa Lee , Changsup Lee , Hyeonseung Im , Yo-Sub Han

While the automated detection of cryptographic API misuses has progressed significantly, its precision diminishes for intricate targets due to the reliance on manually defined patterns. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yifan Xia , Zichen Xie , Peiyu Liu , Kangjie Lu , Yan Liu , Wenhai Wang , Shouling Ji

It is natural to suppose that a Large Language Model is more likely to generate correct test cases when prompted with correct code under test, compared to incorrect code under test. However, the size of this effect has never been previously…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Dong Huang , Jie M. Zhang , Mark Harman , Mingzhe Du , Heming Cui

Large Language Model (LLM) - based Automated Program Repair (APR) systems are increasingly integrated into modern software development workflows, offering automated patches in response to natural language bug reports. However, this reliance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Piotr Przymus , Andreas Happe , Jürgen Cito

Training a deep learning model on source code has gained significant traction recently. Since such models reason about vectors of numbers, source code needs to be converted to a code representation before vectorization. Numerous approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Marjane Namavar , Noor Nashid , Ali Mesbah

Software crash bugs cause unexpected program behaviors or even abrupt termination, thus demanding immediate resolution. However, resolving crash bugs can be challenging due to their complex root causes, which can originate from issues in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xueying Du , Mingwei Liu , Hanlin Wang , Juntao Li , Xin Peng , Yiling Lou

Large language models write production code, and yet they routinely introduce well-known vulnerabilities. We show that this is not a knowledge deficit: the same models that generate insecure code, correctly identify and explain the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Gustavo Sandoval , Brendan Dolan-Gavitt , Siddharth Garg

The rapid evolution of software libraries creates a significant challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs), whose static parametric knowledge often becomes stale post-training. While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is commonly used to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ahmed Nusayer Ashik , Shaowei Wang , Tse-Hsun Chen , Muhammad Asaduzzaman , Yuan Tian

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong code generation abilities in general-purpose programming languages but remain limited in specialized domains such as low-level embedded systems programming. This domain involves hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Amit Singh , Vedant Nipane , Pulkit Agrawal , Jatin Kishnani , Sairanjan Mishra

Manual vulnerability scoring, such as assigning Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scores, is a resource-intensive process that is often influenced by subjective interpretation. This study investigates the potential of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Sima Jafarikhah , Daniel Thompson , Eva Deans , Hossein Siadati , Yi Liu

Deep learning has gained substantial popularity in recent years. Developers mainly rely on libraries and tools to add deep learning capabilities to their software. What kinds of bugs are frequently found in such software? What are the root…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Md Johirul Islam , Giang Nguyen , Rangeet Pan , Hridesh Rajan

Testing compilers with AI models, especially large language models (LLMs), has shown great promise. However, current approaches struggle with two key problems: The generated programs for testing compilers are often too simple, and extensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yunbo Ni , Shaohua Li

One of the most important challenges in the field of software code audit is the presence of vulnerabilities in software source code. These flaws are highly likely ex-ploited and lead to system compromise, data leakage, or denial of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Zakirul Alam Bhuiya

Security vulnerability repair is a difficult task that is in dire need of automation. Two groups of techniques have shown promise: (1) large code language models (LLMs) that have been pre-trained on source code for tasks such as code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yi Wu , Nan Jiang , Hung Viet Pham , Thibaud Lutellier , Jordan Davis , Lin Tan , Petr Babkin , Sameena Shah

Open-source code is pervasive. In this setting, embedded vulnerabilities are spreading to downstream software at an alarming rate. While such vulnerabilities are generally identified and addressed rapidly, inconsistent maintenance policies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xunzhu Tang , Zhenghan Chen , Kisub Kim , Haoye Tian , Saad Ezzini , Jacques Klein

Modern language models (LMs) have been successfully employed in source code generation and understanding, leading to a significant increase in research focused on learning-based code intelligence, such as automated bug repair, and test case…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Xinyu She , Yue Liu , Yanjie Zhao , Yiling He , Li Li , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Zhan Qin , Haoyu Wang