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Achieving high code reuse in physical design flows is challenging but increasingly necessary to build complex systems. Unfortunately, existing approaches based on parameterized Tcl generators support very limited reuse and struggle to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Alex Carsello , James Thomas , Ankita Nayak , Po-Han Chen , Mark Horowitz , Priyanka Raina , Christopher Torng

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly improved code generation, yet most models remain text-only, neglecting crucial visual aids like diagrams and flowcharts used in real-world software development. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Linzheng Chai , Jian Yang , Shukai Liu , Wei Zhang , Liran Wang , Ke Jin , Tao Sun , Congnan Liu , Chenchen Zhang , Hualei Zhu , Jiaheng Liu , Xianjie Wu , Ge Zhang , Tianyu Liu , Zhoujun Li

For enhancing the protection level of dynamic graph software watermarks and for the purpose of conducting the analysis which evaluates the effect of integrating two software protection techniques such as software watermarking and tamper…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Malik Sikandar Hayat Khiyal , Aihab Khan , Sehrish Amjad , M. Shahid Khalil

Code generation aims to automatically generate code snippets of specific programming language according to natural language descriptions. The continuous advancements in deep learning, particularly pre-trained models, have empowered the code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zezhou Yang , Sirong Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Zhenhao Li , Xing Hu , Kui Liu , Xin Xia

Deep generative models have recently achieved significant success in modeling graph data, including dynamic graphs, where topology and features evolve over time. However, unlike in vision and natural language domains, evaluating generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ryien Hosseini , Filippo Simini , Venkatram Vishwanath , Rebecca Willett , Henry Hoffmann

Context. Source code refactoring is a well-established approach to improving source code quality without compromising its external behavior. Motivation. The literature described the benefits of refactoring, yet its application in practice…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Mikel Robredo , Matteo Esposito , Fabio Palomba , Rafael Peñaloza , Valentina Lenarduzzi

Software developers and maintainers need to read and understand source programs and other software artifacts. The increase in size and complexity of software drastically affects several quality attributes, especially understandability and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Mohd Nazir , Raees A. Khan , Khurram Mustafa

Recent progress in large language models enables the creation of realistic machine-generated content. Watermarking is a promising approach to distinguish machine-generated text from human text, embedding statistical signals in the output…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Patrick Chao , Yan Sun , Edgar Dobriban , Hamed Hassani

Resilience broadly describes a quality of withstanding perturbations. Measures of system resilience have gathered increasing attention across applied disciplines, yet existing metrics often lack computational accessibility and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Andreas Morr , Christian Kuehn , George Datseris

Background: The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development has opened new possibilities for code generation. Despite the widespread use of this technology, it remains unclear how well LLMs generate code solutions in terms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Alfred Santa Molison , Marcia Moraes , Glaucia Melo , Fabio Santos , Wesley K. G. Assuncao

Concurrent programs are difficult to test due to their inherent non-determinism. To address this problem, testing often requires the exploration of thread schedules of a program; this can be time-consuming when applied to real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Tingting Yu , Wei Wen , Xue Han , Jane Hayes

Dynamic code, i.e., code that is created or modified at runtime, is ubiquitous in today's world. The behavior of dynamic code can depend on the logic of the dynamic code generator in subtle and non-obvious ways, with significant security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Jesse Bartels , Jon Stephens , Saumya Debray

Code generation refers to automatically producing executable programs from user requirements. Recently, researchers have explored approaches to enhance the correctness of generated code with advanced large language models. Although…

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While watermarks for closed LLMs have matured and have been included in large-scale deployments, these methods are not applicable to open-source models, which allow users full control over the decoding process. This setting is understudied…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Thibaud Gloaguen , Nikola Jovanović , Robin Staab , Martin Vechev

As generative AI is expected to increase global code volumes, the importance of maintainability from a human perspective will become even greater. Various methods have been developed to identify the most important maintainability issues,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Markus Borg , Marwa Ezzouhri , Adam Tornhill

Automatic code generation has recently attracted large attention and is becoming more significant to the software development process. Solutions based on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are being used to increase human and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Leon Chemnitz , David Reichenbach , Hani Aldebes , Mariam Naveed , Krishna Narasimhan , Mira Mezini

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved substantial progress in repository-level code generation. However, solving the same repository-level task often requires multiple attempts, while existing methods still optimize each attempt in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ruwei Pan , Jiangshuai Wang , Qisheng Zhang , Yueheng Zhu , Linhao Wu , Zixiong Yang , Yakun Zhang , Lu Zhang , Hongyu Zhang

We introduce KodCode, a synthetic dataset that addresses the persistent challenge of acquiring high-quality, verifiable training data across diverse difficulties and domains for training Large Language Models for coding. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhangchen Xu , Yang Liu , Yueqin Yin , Mingyuan Zhou , Radha Poovendran

Large language models (LLMs) for code editing have achieved remarkable progress, yet recent empirical studies reveal a fundamental disconnect between technical accuracy and developer productivity. Despite their strong benchmark performance,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Chenyan Liu , Yun Lin , Jiaxin Chang , Jiawei Liu , Binhang Qi , Bo Jiang , Zhiyong Huang , Jin Song Dong

Vibe Coding (VC) is a form of software development assisted by generative AI, in which developers describe the intended functionality or logic via natural language prompts, and the AI system generates the corresponding source code. VC can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Muhammad Waseem , Aakash Ahmad , Kai-Kristian Kemell , Jussi Rasku , Sami Lahti , Kalle Mäkelä , Pekka Abrahamsson