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Code review is a crucial process before deploying code to production, as it validates the code, provides suggestions for improvements, and identifies errors such as missed edge cases. In projects with regular production releases, the effort…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jahnavi Kumar , Sridhar Chimalakonda

In competitive programming task, problem statements are often embedded within elaborate narrative backgrounds, requiring deep understanding of the underlying solutions to successfully complete the tasks. Current code generation models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shiwen Zhang , Lingxiang Wang , Hainan Zhang , Ziwei Wang , Sijia Wen , Zhiming Zheng

Source code segmentation, dividing code into functionally coherent segments, is crucial for knowledge retrieval and maintenance in software development. While enabling efficient navigation and comprehension of large codebases, manual and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Abdelhalim Dahou , Ansgar Scherp , Sebastian Kurten , Brigitte Mathiak , Madhu Chauhan

Code intelligence is an emerging domain in software engineering, aiming to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of various code-related tasks. Recent research suggests that incorporating contextual information beyond the basic original…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yanlin Wang , Kefeng Duan , Dewu Zheng , Ensheng Shi , Fengji Zhang , Yanli Wang , Jiachi Chen , Xilin Liu , Yuchi Ma , Hongyu Zhang , Qianxiang Wang , Zibin Zheng

(Source) code search is widely concerned by software engineering researchers because it can improve the productivity and quality of software development. Given a functionality requirement usually described in a natural language sentence, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Yifei Ge , Yuling Hu , Yuchen Chen , Quanjun Zhang , Xiuting Ge , Yang Liu , Zhenyu Chen

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Prompt Engineering have made chatbot customization more accessible, significantly reducing barriers to tasks that previously required programming skills. However, prompt evaluation,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Sam Yu-Te Lee , Aryaman Bahukhandi , Dongyu Liu , Kwan-Liu Ma

Code reasoning is a fundamental capability for large language models (LLMs) in the code domain. It involves understanding and predicting a program's execution behavior, such as determining the output for a given input or whether a specific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lingxiao Tang , He Ye , Zhongxin Liu , Xiaoxue Ren , Lingfeng Bao

State-of-the-art summarization systems are trained and evaluated on massive datasets scraped from the web. Despite their prevalence, we know very little about the underlying characteristics (data noise, summarization complexity, etc.) of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Priyam Tejaswin , Dhruv Naik , Pengfei Liu

Many software analysis methods have come to rely on machine learning approaches. Code segmentation - the process of decomposing source code into meaningful blocks - can augment these methods by featurizing code, reducing noise, and limiting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Jacob Dormuth , Ben Gelman , Jessica Moore , David Slater

Cross-Lingual Summarization (CLS) is the task to generate a summary in one language for an article in a different language. Previous studies on CLS mainly take pipeline methods or train the end-to-end model using the translated parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Shuyu Jiang , Dengbiao Tu , Xingshu Chen , Rui Tang , Wenxian Wang , Haizhou Wang

Cross-lingual Summarization (CLS) aims at producing a summary in the target language for an article in the source language. Traditional solutions employ a two-step approach, i.e. translate then summarize or summarize then translate.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ruochen Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Yu Shi , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

Evaluation of summarization tasks is extremely crucial to determining the quality of machine generated summaries. Over the last decade, ROUGE has become the standard automatic evaluation measure for evaluating summarization tasks. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Kavita Ganesan

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into software engineering workflows, yet current benchmarks provide only coarse performance summaries that obscure the diverse capabilities and limitations of these models. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Felix Mächtle , Jan-Niclas Serr , Nils Loose , Thomas Eisenbarth

Code summarization is the task of generating natural language description of source code, which is important for program understanding and maintenance. Existing approaches treat the task as a machine translation problem (e.g., from Java to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Xin Wang , Xin Peng , Jun Sun , Yifan Zhao , Chi Chen , Jinkai Fan

Recent work learns contextual representations of source code by reconstructing tokens from their context. For downstream semantic understanding tasks like summarizing code in English, these representations should ideally capture program…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Paras Jain , Ajay Jain , Tianjun Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

Despite the success of text retrieval in many NLP tasks, code retrieval remains a largely underexplored area. Most text retrieval systems are tailored for natural language queries, often neglecting the specific challenges of retrieving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ye Liu , Rui Meng , Shafiq Joty , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong , Yingbo Zhou , Semih Yavuz

As pre-trained models automate many code intelligence tasks, a widely used paradigm is to fine-tune a model on the task dataset for each programming language. A recent study reported that multilingual fine-tuning benefits a range of tasks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Deze Wang , Boxing Chen , Shanshan Li , Wei Luo , Shaoliang Peng , Wei Dong , Xiangke Liao

This paper presents a multi-stage reranking system for repository-level code search, which leverages the vastly available commit histories of large open-source repositories to aid in bug fixing. We define the task of repository-level code…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Siddharth Gandhi , Luyu Gao , Jamie Callan

Transformer-based pre-trained models have recently achieved great results in solving many software engineering tasks including automatic code completion which is a staple in a developer's toolkit. While many have striven to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Tim van Dam , Maliheh Izadi , Arie van Deursen

Code review is a fundamental process in software development that plays a pivotal role in ensuring code quality and reducing the likelihood of errors and bugs. However, code review can be complex, subjective, and time-consuming. Quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Oussama Ben Sghaier , Houari Sahraoui