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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

Recent years have seen the rise of Deep Learning (DL) techniques applied to source code. Researchers have exploited DL to automate several development and maintenance tasks, such as writing commit messages, generating comments and detecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Michele Tufano , Jevgenija Pantiuchina , Cody Watson , Gabriele Bavota , Denys Poshyvanyk

Software development builds digital tools to automate processes, yet its initial phases, up to deployment, remain largely manual. There are two reasons: Development tasks are often under-specified and transitions between tasks usually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Dhasarathy Parthasarathy , Yinan Yu , Earl T. Barr

This paper presents a study of using large language models (LLMs) in modifying existing code. While LLMs for generating code have been widely studied, their role in code modification remains less understood. Although "prompting" serves as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ningzhi Tang , Emory Smith , Yu Huang , Collin McMillan , Toby Jia-Jun Li

Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in non-generative software maintenance tasks, such as fault localization (FL). Success in FL depends on a models ability to reason about program semantics beyond surface-level…

Code analysis is fundamental in Software Engineering, supporting debugging, optimization, and security assessment. Human developers approach it through syntax parsing, static semantics inference, and dynamic reasoning. Traditional tools are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wei Ma , Zhihao Lin , Shangqing Liu , Qiang Hu , Ye Liu , Wenhan Wang , Cen Zhang , Liming Nie , Li Li , Yang Liu , Lingxiao Jiang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited exceptional performance in software engineering yet face challenges in adapting to continually evolving code knowledge, particularly regarding the frequent updates of third-party library APIs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Chenlong Wang , Zhaoyang Chu , Zhengxiang Cheng , Xuyi Yang , Kaiyue Qiu , Yao Wan , Zhou Zhao , Xuanhua Shi , Dongping Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their remarkable capabilities in numerous fields. This survey focuses on how LLMs empower users, regardless of their technical background, to use human languages to automatically generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Nam Huynh , Beiyu Lin

The growing need to integrate information from a large number of diverse sources poses significant scalability challenges for data integration systems. These systems often rely on manually written schema mappings, which are complex,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Christopher Buss , Mahdis Safari , Arash Termehchy , Stefan Lee , David Maier

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in automated code translation. While prior work has focused on improving translation accuracy through advanced prompting and iterative repair, the reliability of the underlying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Fazle Rabbi , Soumit Kanti Saha , Jinqiu Yang

Recent studies on software tool manipulation with large language models (LLMs) mostly rely on closed model APIs. The industrial adoption of these models is substantially constrained due to the security and robustness risks in exposing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Qiantong Xu , Fenglu Hong , Bo Li , Changran Hu , Zhengyu Chen , Jian Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown notable potential in code generation for optimization algorithms, unlocking exciting new opportunities. This paper examines how LLMs, rather than creating algorithms from scratch, can improve existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Camilo Chacón Sartori , Christian Blum

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are fundamentally reshaping computing, with large language models (LLMs) now effectively being able to generate and interpret source code and natural language instructions. These emergent…

In the domain of software development, LLMs have been utilized to automate tasks such as code translation, where source code from one programming language is translated to another while preserving its functionality. However, LLMs often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Manojit Chakraborty , Madhusudan Ghosh , Rishabh Gupta

As a codebase expands over time, its library dependencies can become outdated and require updates to maintain innovation and security. However, updating a library can introduce breaking changes in the code, necessitating significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Vali Tawosi , Salwa Alamir , Xiaomo Liu , Manuela Veloso

Automatic programming has seen increasing popularity due to the emergence of tools like GitHub Copilot which rely on Large Language Models (LLMs). At the same time, automatically generated code faces challenges during deployment due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Michael R. Lyu , Baishakhi Ray , Abhik Roychoudhury , Shin Hwei Tan , Patanamon Thongtanunam

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved their capabilities in natural language processing and code synthesis, enabling more complex applications across different fields. This paper explores the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Mohammad Setak , Pooria Madani

With the end of Moore's Law, optimizing code for performance has become paramount for meeting ever-increasing compute demands, particularly in hyperscale data centers where even small efficiency gains translate to significant resource and…

LLM-based autonomous coding agents have reshaped software development. While these agents excel at code generation, open questions persist about the long-term maintainability of AI-generated code. This study empirically investigates the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shota Sawada , Tatsuya Shirai , Yutaro Kashiwa , Ken'ichi Yamaguchi , Hiroshi Iwata , Hajimu Iida
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