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How do we update AI memory of user intent as intent changes? We consider how an AI interface may assist the integration of new information into a repository of natural language data. Inspired by software engineering concepts like impact…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Priyan Vaithilingam , Munyeong Kim , Frida-Cecilia Acosta-Parenteau , Daniel Lee , Amine Mhedhbi , Elena L. Glassman , Ian Arawjo

Current learning-based Automated Vulnerability Repair (AVR) approaches, while promising, often fail to generalize effectively in real-world scenarios. Our diagnostic analysis reveals three fundamental weaknesses in state-of-the-art AVR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chengran Yang , Ting Zhang , Jinfeng Jiang , Xin Zhou , Haoye Tian , Mingzhe Du , Jieke Shi , Junkai Chen , Yikun Li , Eng Lieh Ouh , Lwin Khin Shar , David Lo

Dermatological diagnosis requires integrating fine-grained visual perception with expert clinical knowledge. Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) facilitate interactive medical image analysis, their application in dermatology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yize Liu , Siyuan Yan , Ming Hu , Lie Ju , Xieji Li , Feilong Tang , Wei Feng , Zongyuan Ge

We propose, BanditRepair, a system that systematically explores and assesses a set of possible runtime patches. The system is grounded on so-called bandit algorithms, that are online machine learning algorithms, designed for constantly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Thomas Durieux , Youssef Hamadi , Martin Monperrus

In this paper, we do automatic correctness assessment for patches generated by program repair systems. We consider the human-written patch as ground truth oracle and randomly generate tests based on it, a technique proposed by Shamshiri et…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-10 He Ye , Matias Martinez , Martin Monperrus

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in transforming recommender systems from implicit behavioral pattern matching to explicit intent reasoning. While RecGPT-V1 successfully pioneered this paradigm by…

Automated Program Repair (APR) improves developer productivity by saving debugging and bug-fixing time. While APR has been extensively explored for C/C++ and Java programs, there is little research on bugs in PHP programs due to the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-23 K. D. Pramod , W. T. N. De Silva , W. U. K. Thabrew , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Sandareka Wickramanayake

[...] Since then, various APR approaches, especially those leveraging the power of large language models (LLMs), have been rapidly developed to fix general software bugs. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of these advanced techniques in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Anh Ho , Thanh Le-Cong , Bach Le , Christine Rizkallah

Foundation model-based agents are increasingly used to automate complex tasks, enhancing efficiency and productivity. However, their access to sensitive resources and autonomous decision-making also introduce significant security risks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chejian Xu , Mintong Kang , Jiawei Zhang , Zeyi Liao , Lingbo Mo , Mengqi Yuan , Huan Sun , Bo Li

Large language model (LLM)-driven automated program repair (APR) has advanced rapidly, but most methods remain code-centric: they directly rewrite source code and thereby risk hallucinated, behaviorally inconsistent fixes. This limitation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Taohong Zhu , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Youcheng Sun

Voice-controlled dialog systems have become immensely popular due to their ability to perform a wide range of actions in response to diverse user queries. These agents possess a predefined set of skills or intents to fulfill specific user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ankan Mullick , Sukannya Purkayastha , Saransh Sharma , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

Adversarial testing of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for their safe and responsible deployment. We introduce a novel approach for automated generation of adversarial evaluation datasets to test the safety of LLM generations on new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Bhaktipriya Radharapu , Kevin Robinson , Lora Aroyo , Preethi Lahoti

Software issue resolution aims to address real-world issues in software repositories (e.g., bug fixing and efficiency optimization) based on natural language descriptions provided by users, representing a key aspect of software maintenance.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhonghao Jiang , David Lo , Zhongxin Liu

Automated program repair (APR) aims to fix software bugs without human intervention and template-based APR has been widely investigated with promising results. However, it is challenging for template-based APR to select the appropriate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Tongke Zhang , Bowen Yu , Weisong Sun , Zhenyu Chen

Performance bugs are inefficiencies in software that waste computational resources without causing functional failures, making them particularly challenging to detect and fix. While recent advances in Software Engineering agents have shown…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Spandan Garg , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam , Neel Sundaresan

Automated program repair techniques aim to aid software developers with the challenging task of fixing bugs. In heuristic-based program repair, a search space of program variants, created via mutations on software, is explored to find…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Carol Hanna , Aymeric Blot , Justyna Petke

Multi-agent systems have extended the capability of agentic AI. Instead of single inference passes, multiple agents perform collective reasoning to derive high quality answers. However, existing multi-agent orchestration relies on static…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Chaoyi Ruan , Yiliang Wang , Ziji Shi , Jialin Li

Large Language Model (LLM) providers expose fine-tuning APIs that let end users fine-tune their frontier LLMs. Unfortunately, it has been shown that an adversary with fine-tuning access to an LLM can bypass safeguards. Particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sarah Egler , John Schulman , Nicholas Carlini

Scaling inference-time computation has substantially improved the reasoning capabilities of language models. However, existing methods have significant limitations: serialized chain-of-thought approaches generate overly long outputs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jiayi Pan , Xiuyu Li , Long Lian , Charlie Snell , Yifei Zhou , Adam Yala , Trevor Darrell , Kurt Keutzer , Alane Suhr

Automated program repair is an emerging technology that seeks to automatically rectify bugs and vulnerabilities using learning, search, and semantic analysis. Trust in automatically generated patches is necessary for achieving greater…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yannic Noller , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Xiang Gao , Abhik Roychoudhury