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With the increasing popularity of large language models (LLMs), reasoning on basic graph algorithm problems is an essential intermediate step in assessing their abilities to process and infer complex graph reasoning tasks. Existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Qiaolong Cai , Zhaowei Wang , Shizhe Diao , James Kwok , Yangqiu Song

Already today, humans and programming assistants based on large language models (LLMs) collaborate in everyday programming tasks. Clearly, a misalignment between how LLMs and programmers comprehend code can lead to misunderstandings,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Youssef Abdelsalam , Norman Peitek , Anna-Maria Maurer , Mariya Toneva , Sven Apel

Recent advances in Code Large Language Models (CodeLLMs) have primarily focused on open-ended code generation, often overlooking the crucial aspect of code understanding and reasoning. To bridge this gap, we introduce CodeMMLU, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Dung Nguyen Manh , Thang Phan Chau , Nam Le Hai , Thong T. Doan , Nam V. Nguyen , Quang Pham , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in the realm of natural language understanding and programming code processing tasks. Their capacity to comprehend and generate human-like code has spurred research into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Chongzhou Fang , Ning Miao , Shaurya Srivastav , Jialin Liu , Ruoyu Zhang , Ruijie Fang , Asmita , Ryan Tsang , Najmeh Nazari , Han Wang , Houman Homayoun

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as coding assistants. However, the ambiguity of the developer's prompt often leads to incorrect code generation, as current models struggle to infer user intent without extensive prompt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Harsh Darji , Thibaud Lutellier

As coding agents are increasingly deployed in large codebases, the need to automatically design challenging, codebase-level evaluation is central. We propose Gistify, a task where a coding LLM must create a single, minimal, self-contained…

A growing number of tools have used Large Language Models (LLMs) to support developers' code understanding. However, developers still face several barriers to using such tools, including challenges in describing their intent in natural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jonan Richards , Mairieli Wessel

Code localization--identifying precisely where in a codebase changes need to be made--is a fundamental yet challenging task in software maintenance. Existing approaches struggle to efficiently navigate complex codebases when identifying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhaoling Chen , Xiangru Tang , Gangda Deng , Fang Wu , Jialong Wu , Zhiwei Jiang , Viktor Prasanna , Arman Cohan , Xingyao Wang

Given a large and evolving codebase, the ability to automatically generate holistic, architecture-aware documentation that captures not only individual functions but also cross-file, cross-module, and system-level interactions remains an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Anh Nguyen Hoang , Minh Le-Anh , Bach Le , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Recent AI code assistants have significantly improved their ability to process more complex contexts and generate entire codebases based on a textual description, compared to the popular snippet-level generation. These codebase AI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Philipp Eibl , Sadra Sabouri , Souti Chattopadhyay

Information Visualization has been utilized to gain insights from complex data. In recent times, Large Language models (LLMs) have performed very well in many tasks. In this paper, we showcase the capabilities of different popular LLMs to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Saadiq Rauf Khan , Vinit Chandak , Sougata Mukherjea

Code summarization is the task of generating natural language descriptions of source code, which is critical for software comprehension and maintenance. While large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress on this task, an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Jiahao Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Kevin Leach , Yu Huang

Unreadable code could be a breeding ground for errors. Thus, previous work defined approaches based on machine learning to automatically assess code readability that can warn developers when some code artifacts (e.g., classes) become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Antonio Vitale , Emanuela Guglielmi , Rocco Oliveto , Simone Scalabrino

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated the development of automated techniques and tools for supporting various software engineering tasks, e.g., program understanding, code generation, software testing, and program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Maja Vukovic , Rangeet Pan , Tin Kam Ho , Rahul Krishna , Raju Pavuluri , Michele Merler

Large Language Models for Code (or code LLMs) are increasingly gaining popularity and capabilities, offering a wide array of functionalities such as code completion, code generation, code summarization, test generation, code translation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Rahul Krishna , Rangeet Pan , Raju Pavuluri , Srikanth Tamilselvam , Maja Vukovic , Saurabh Sinha

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in code generation and problem solving. Current approaches employ external tool-based iterative debuggers that use compiler or other tool-based runtime feedback to refine coarse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Md. Ashraful Islam , Mohammed Eunus Ali , Md Rizwan Parvez

With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), there has been a significant improvement in the programming capabilities of models, attracting growing attention from researchers. Evaluating the programming capabilities of LLMs is…

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

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has catalyzed a paradigm shift from code generation assistance to autonomous coding agents, enabling a novel development methodology termed "Vibe Coding" where developers validate AI-generated…

In the realm of software development, providing accurate and personalized code explanations is crucial for both technical professionals and business stakeholders. Technical professionals benefit from enhanced understanding and improved…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zexing Xu , Zhuang Luo , Yichuan Li , Kyumin Lee , S. Rasoul Etesami