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Leveraging deep learning (DL)-based code analysis tools to solve software engineering tasks is becoming increasingly popular. Code models often suffer performance degradation due to various reasons (e.g., code data shifts). Retraining is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ravishka Rathnasuriya , Zijie Zhao , Wei Yang

Using large language models (LLMs) for source code has recently gained attention. LLMs, such as Transformer-based models like Codex and ChatGPT, have been shown to be highly capable of solving a wide range of programming problems. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Atsushi Shirafuji , Yutaka Watanobe , Takumi Ito , Makoto Morishita , Yuki Nakamura , Yusuke Oda , Jun Suzuki

Currently, a growing number of mature natural language processing applications make people's life more convenient. Such applications are built by source code - the language in software engineering. However, the applications for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Ahmed Elnaggar , Wei Ding , Llion Jones , Tom Gibbs , Tamas Feher , Christoph Angerer , Silvia Severini , Florian Matthes , Burkhard Rost

Automatic code transformation in which transformations are tuned for specific applications and contexts are difficult to achieve in an accessible manner. In this paper, we present an approach to build application specific code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Matthew J. Sottile , Geoffrey C. Hulette

Knowledge editing techniques, aiming to efficiently modify a minor proportion of knowledge in large language models (LLMs) without negatively impacting performance across other inputs, have garnered widespread attention. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yuxin Jiang , Yufei Wang , Chuhan Wu , Wanjun Zhong , Xingshan Zeng , Jiahui Gao , Liangyou Li , Xin Jiang , Lifeng Shang , Ruiming Tang , Qun Liu , Wei Wang

The rapid evolution of software libraries presents a significant challenge for code generation models, which must adapt to frequent version updates while maintaining compatibility with previous versions. Existing code completion benchmarks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Nizar Islah , Justine Gehring , Diganta Misra , Eilif Muller , Irina Rish , Terry Yue Zhuo , Massimo Caccia

Code data in large language model (LLM) pretraining is recognized crucial not only for code-related tasks but also for enhancing general intelligence of LLMs. Current open-source LLMs often heavily rely on human effort to produce their code…

Code generation aims to produce code that fulfills requirements written in natural languages automatically. Large language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have demonstrated promising effectiveness in this area. Nonetheless, these LLMs often fail…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Ruwei Pan , Hongyu Zhang , Chao Liu

Few-shot learning with large-scale, pre-trained language models is a powerful way to answer questions about code, e.g., how to complete a given code example, or even generate code snippets from scratch. The success of these models raises…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Patrick Bareiß , Beatriz Souza , Marcelo d'Amorim , Michael Pradel

Large language models (LLMs) have exerted a considerable impact on diverse language-related tasks in recent years. Their demonstrated state-of-the-art performance is achieved through methodologies such as zero-shot or few-shot prompting.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Arshad Kaji , Manan Shah

Context: Software systems are in continuous evolution through source code changes to fixing bugs, adding new functionalities and improving the internal architecture. All these practices are recorded in the version history, which can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Leandro Ungari Cayres , Bruno Santos de Lima , Rogério Eduardo Garcia

Standard fine-tuning is considered not as effective as specialized methods for model editing due to its comparatively poor performance. However, it is simple, agnostic to the architectural details of the model being edited, and able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Govind Gangadhar , Karl Stratos

The model editing problem concerns how language models should learn new facts about the world over time. While empirical research on model editing has drawn widespread attention, the conceptual foundations of model editing remain shaky --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Peter Hase , Thomas Hofweber , Xiang Zhou , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Mohit Bansal

Large Language Models (LLMs) are nowadays extensively used for various types of software engineering tasks, primarily code generation. Previous research has shown how suitable prompt engineering could help developers in improving their code…

We propose using natural language outlines as a novel modality and interaction surface for providing AI assistance to developers throughout the software development process. An NL outline for a code function comprises multiple statements…

Because loops execute their body many times, compiler developers place much emphasis on their optimization. Nevertheless, in view of highly diverse source code and hardware, compilers still struggle to produce optimal target code. The sheer…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rahim Mammadli , Marija Selakovic , Felix Wolf , Michael Pradel

Code translation transforms code between programming languages while preserving functionality, which is critical in software development and maintenance. While traditional learning-based code translation methods have limited effectiveness…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhiqiang Yuan , Weitong Chen , Hanlin Wang , Xin Peng , Zhenpeng Chen , Yiling Lou

Code review is an essential part to software development lifecycle since it aims at guaranteeing the quality of codes. Modern code review activities necessitate developers viewing, understanding and even running the programs to assess…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zhiyu Li , Shuai Lu , Daya Guo , Nan Duan , Shailesh Jannu , Grant Jenks , Deep Majumder , Jared Green , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Shengyu Fu , Neel Sundaresan

The capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in code generation have been extensively studied, particularly for implementing target functionalities from natural-language descriptions. Alternatively, input-output (I/O) examples provide…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yingjie Fu , Bozhou Li , Linyi Li , Wentao Zhang , Tao Xie

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in code-related tasks. Despite their advancement, empirical evidence reveals that they still struggle with \emph{deductive code reasoning}, the ability to reason about the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jun Gao , Yun Peng , Xiaoxue Ren