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Advances in natural language processing have resulted in large language models (LLMs) that are capable of generating understandable and sensible written text. Recent versions of these models, such as OpenAI Codex and GPT-3, can generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Stephen MacNeil , Andrew Tran , Arto Hellas , Joanne Kim , Sami Sarsa , Paul Denny , Seth Bernstein , Juho Leinonen

Software developers often have to gain an understanding of a codebase. Be it programmers getting onboarded onto a team project or, for example, developers striving to grasp an external open-source library. In either case, they frequently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Adam Štěpánek , David Kuťák , Barbora Kozlíková , Jan Byška

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently made significant advances in code generation through the 'Chain-of-Thought' prompting technique. This technique empowers the model to autonomously devise "solution plans" to tackle intricate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zhihong Sun , Chen Lyu , Bolun Li , Yao Wan , Hongyu Zhang , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

Trustworthiness and interpretability are inextricably linked concepts for LLMs. The more interpretable an LLM is, the more trustworthy it becomes. However, current techniques for interpreting LLMs when applied to code-related tasks largely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-13 David N. Palacio , Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas , Alejandro Velasco , Dipin Khati , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk

Thematic analysis provides valuable insights into participants' experiences through coding and theme development, but its resource-intensive nature limits its use in large healthcare studies. Large language models (LLMs) can analyze text at…

People commonly leverage structured content to accelerate knowledge acquisition and research problem solving. Among these, roadmaps guide researchers through hierarchical subtasks to solve complex research problems step by step. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jiacheng Liu , Zichen Tang , Zhongjun Yang , Xinyi Hu , Xueyuan Lin , Linwei Jia , Ruofei Bai , Rongjin Li , Shiyao Peng , Haocheng Gao , Haihong E

Cognitive BASIC is a minimal, BASIC-style prompting language and in-model interpreter that structures large language model (LLM) reasoning into explicit, stepwise execution traces. Inspired by the simplicity of retro BASIC, we repurpose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Oliver Kramer

The reasoning abilities are one of the most enigmatic and captivating aspects of large language models (LLMs). Numerous studies are dedicated to exploring and expanding the boundaries of this reasoning capability. However, tasks that embody…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yuze Zhao , Tianyun Ji , Wenjun Feng , Zhenya Huang , Qi Liu , Zhiding Liu , Yixiao Ma , Kai Zhang , Enhong Chen

In this paper, we propose KnowCoder, a Large Language Model (LLM) to conduct Universal Information Extraction (UIE) via code generation. KnowCoder aims to develop a kind of unified schema representation that LLMs can easily understand and…

While large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied to code generation, they struggle with generating entire deep learning projects, which are characterized by complex structures, longer functions, and stronger reliance on domain…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chen Xie , Mingsheng Jiao , Xiaodong Gu , Beijun Shen

Understanding and reasoning over diagrams is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence. While Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various tasks, existing benchmarks lack comprehensive evaluation…

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Timely, personalized feedback is essential for students learning programming. LLM-powered tools like ChatGPT offer instant support, but reveal direct answers with code, which may hinder deep conceptual engagement. We developed CodeAid, an…

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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown impressive success across modalities such as image, video, and audio in a variety of understanding and generation tasks. However, current MLLMs are surprisingly poor at understanding…

In the context of newly release software frameworks, large language models (LLMs) often exhibit poor performance and a high rate of hallucination, as they are not exposed to such environments during training. Although inference-time…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Guangsheng Ou , Qiming Zhang , Sirong Chen , Anji Li , Dong Xu , Tiancheng Luo , Dekun Dai , Cuiyun Gao , Long Wang , Jun Zhou , Mingwei Liu , Zibin Zheng

With the rise of AI-based code generation, customizing existing code out of natural language instructions to modify visual results -such as figures or images -has become possible, promising to reduce the need for deep programming expertise.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Charly Reux , Mathieu Acher , Djamel Eddine Khelladi , Olivier Barais , Clément Quinton

Background: Quantum computing is a rapidly growing new programming paradigm that brings significant changes to the design and implementation of algorithms. Understanding quantum algorithms requires knowledge of physics and mathematics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Giordano d'Aloisio , Sophie Fortz , Carol Hanna , Daniel Fortunato , Avner Bensoussan , Eñaut Mendiluze Usandizaga , Federica Sarro

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly acting as dynamic conversational interfaces, supporting multi-turn interactions that mimic human-like conversation and facilitate complex tasks like coding. While datasets such as LMSYS-Chat-1M…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Binquan Zhang , Li Zhang , Haoyuan Zhang , Fang Liu , Song Wang , Bo Shen , An Fu , Lin Shi

Many software development tasks, such as implementing features and fixing bugs, begin with developers posing questions about a codebase. However, answering questions about codebases that span millions of lines of code across thousands of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Amirmohammad Nazari , Sadra Sabouri , Wang Bill Zhu , Robin Jia , Souti Chattopadhyay , Mukund Raghothaman

Large Language Models (LLMs) have already become quite proficient at solving simpler programming tasks like those in HumanEval or MBPP benchmarks. However, solving more complex and competitive programming tasks is still quite challenging…

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Codebooks -- documents that operationalize concepts and outline annotation procedures -- are used almost universally by social scientists when coding political texts. To code these texts automatically, researchers are increasing turning to…

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