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Compilers play a central role in translating high-level code into executable programs, making their correctness essential for ensuring code safety and reliability. While extensive research has focused on verifying the correctness of…

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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…

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Current compiler optimization reports often present complex, technical information that is difficult for programmers to interpret and act upon effectively. This paper assesses the capability of large language models (LLM) to understand…

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When implementing secure software, developers must ensure certain requirements, such as the erasure of secret data after its use and execution in real time. Such requirements are not explicitly captured by the C language and could…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-08 A. P. Shivarpatna Venkatesh , A. Bhat Handadi , M. Mory

Despite extensive testing and correctness certification of their functional semantics, a number of compiler optimizations have been shown to violate security guarantees implemented in source code. While prior work has shed light on how such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Michael D. Brown , Matthew Pruett , Robert Bigelow , Girish Mururu , Santosh Pande

Generating performant executables from high level languages is critical to software performance across a wide range of domains. Modern compilers perform this task by passing code through a series of well-studied optimizations at…

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) compilers are critical for efficiently deploying AI models across diverse hardware platforms. However, they remain prone to bugs that can compromise both compiler reliability and model correctness. Thus,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qingchao Shen

In recent years, Large language model-powered Automated Program Repair (LAPR) techniques have achieved state-of-the-art bug-fixing performance and have been pervasively applied and studied in both industry and academia. Nonetheless, LLMs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Pengyu Xue , Linhao Wu , Zhen Yang , Zhongxing Yu , Zhi Jin , Ge Li , Yan Xiao , Shuo Liu , Xinyi Li , Hongyi Lin , Jingwen Wu

Compilers are fundamental to modern software development, making the effective identification and resolution of compiler faults essential. However, localizing these faults to specific source files remains highly challenging due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qingyang Li , Yibiao Yang , Maolin Sun , Jiangchang Wu , Qingkai Shi , Yuming Zhou

The correctness of compilers is instrumental in the safety and reliability of other software systems, as bugs in compilers can produce executables that do not reflect the intent of programmers. Such errors are difficult to identify and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin , Mohammad Amin Alipour

Background: Compilers are fundamental to software development, translating high-level source code into executable software systems. Faults in compilers can have severe consequences and thus effective localization and resolution of compiler…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yibiao Yang , Qingyang Li , Maolin Sun , Jiangchang Wu , Yuming Zhou

Most software that runs on computers undergoes processing by compilers. Since compilers constitute the fundamental infrastructure of software development, their correctness is paramount. Over the years, researchers have invested in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Haoyang Ma

As the laws have become more complicated and enormous, the role of software systems in navigating and understanding these intricacies has become more critical. Given their socio-economic and legally critical implications, ensuring software…

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Deep learning (DL) frameworks are essential to DL-based software systems, and framework bugs may lead to substantial disasters, thus requiring effective testing. Researchers adopt DL models or single interfaces as test inputs and analyze…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yanzhou Mu , Juan Zhai , Chunrong Fang , Xiang Chen , Zhixiang Cao , Peiran Yang , Kexin Zhao , An Guo , Zhenyu Chen

The correctness of compilers is instrumental in the safety and reliability of other software systems, as bugs in compilers can produce programs that do not reflect the intents of programmers. Compilers are complex software systems due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin , Mohammad Amin Alipour

Compiler correctness is a cornerstone of reliable software development. However, systematic testing of compilers is infeasible, given the vast space of possible programs and the complexity of modern programming languages. In this context,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Calin Georgescu , Mitchell Olsthoorn , Pouria Derakhshanfar , Marat Akhin , Annibale Panichella

We explore the novel application of Large Language Models to code optimization. We present a 7B-parameter transformer model trained from scratch to optimize LLVM assembly for code size. The model takes as input unoptimized assembly and…

Compiler optimization decisions are often based on hand-crafted heuristics centered around a few established benchmark suites. Alternatively, they can be learned from feature and performance data produced during compilation. However,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Raphael Mosaner , David Leopoldseder , Wolfgang Kisling , Lukas Stadler , Hanspeter Mössenböck

Since the mid-1990s, researchers have been trying to use machine-learning based approaches to solve a number of different compiler optimization problems. These techniques primarily enhance the quality of the obtained results and, more…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Amir H. Ashouri , William Killian , John Cavazos , Gianluca Palermo , Cristina Silvano

Large language models and deep learning models designed for code intelligence have revolutionized the software engineering field due to their ability to perform various code-related tasks. These models can process source code and software…

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