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Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) require huge GPU memory when training on modern image/video databases. Unfortunately, the GPU memory is physically finite, which limits the image resolutions and batch sizes that could be used in training for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Jianwei Feng , Dong Huang

Identifying the mathematical relationships that best describe a dataset remains a very challenging problem in machine learning, and is known as Symbolic Regression (SR). In contrast to neural networks which are often treated as black boxes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Tony Tohme , Dehong Liu , Kamal Youcef-Toumi

Recently, multiple Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have been proposed to enhance the repair performance. While these techniques mainly focus on the single-line or hunk-level repair, they face…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jiahong Xiang , Xiaoyang Xu , Fanchu Kong , Mingyuan Wu , Zizheng Zhang , Haotian Zhang , Yuqun Zhang

Stateflow models are widely used in the industry to model the high-level control logic of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) in Simulink--the defacto CPS simulator. Many approaches exist to test Simulink models, but once a fault is detected, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Aitor Arrieta , Pablo Valle , Shaukat Ali

Software debugging, and program repair are among the most time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks in software engineering that would benefit a lot from automation. In this paper, we propose a novel automated program repair approach based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ehsan Mashhadi , Hadi Hemmati

Debugging functional Verilog bugs consumes a significant portion of front-end design time. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great potential in mitigating this effort, existing LLM-based automated debugging methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Bingkun Yao , Ning Wang , Xiangfeng Liu , Yuxin Du , Yuchen Hu , Hong Gao , Zhe Jiang , Nan Guan

Automated Program Repair (APR) helps improve the efficiency of software development and maintenance. Recent APR techniques use deep learning, particularly the encoder-decoder architecture, to generate patches. Though existing DL-based APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Qihao Zhu , Zeyu Sun , Yuan-an Xiao , Wenjie Zhang , Kang Yuan , Yingfei Xiong , Lu Zhang

Geospatial pixel reasoning aims to generate segmentation masks in remote sensing imagery directly from natural-language instructions. Most existing approaches follow a paradigm that fine-tunes multimodal large language models under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Chengjie Jiang , Yunqi Zhou , Jiafeng Yan , Jing Li , Jiayang Li , Yue Zhou , Hongjie He , Jonathan Li

Automated program repair (APR) struggles to scale from isolated functions to full repositories, as it demands a global, task-aware understanding to locate necessary changes. Current methods, limited by context and reliant on shallow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhongqiang Pan , Chuanyi Li , Wenkang Zhong , Yi Feng , Bin Luo , Vincent Ng

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promising performance on various programming tasks, including Automatic Program Repair (APR). However, most approaches to LLM-based APR are limited to the static analysis of the programs, while disregarding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Mirazul Haque , Petr Babkin , Farima Farmahinifarahani , Manuela Veloso

Symbolic regression (SR) is the process of discovering hidden relationships from data with mathematical expressions, which is considered an effective way to reach interpretable machine learning (ML). Genetic programming (GP) has been the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Peng Zeng , Xiaotian Song , Andrew Lensen , Yuwei Ou , Yanan Sun , Mengjie Zhang , Jiancheng Lv

Advances in Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) have shown that this variant of Genetic Programming (GP) reaches better results than its predecessor for supervised machine learning problems, particularly in the task of symbolic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Joao Francisco B. S. Martins , Luiz Otavio V. B. Oliveira , Luis F. Miranda , Felipe Casadei , Gisele L. Pappa

Language Models (LMs) have become widely used in software engineering, especially for tasks such as code generation, where they are referred to as code LMs. These models have proven effective in generating code, making it easier for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jian Gu , Aldeida Aleti , Chunyang Chen , Hongyu Zhang

We revisit the performance of template-based APR to build comprehensive knowledge about the effectiveness of fix patterns, and to highlight the importance of complementary steps such as fault localization or donor code retrieval. To that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Kui Liu , Anil Koyuncu , Dongsun Kim , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

This work deals with the optimization of computer programs targeting Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The goal is to lift, from programmers to optimizing compilers, the heavy burden of determining program details that are dependent on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Xiaohui Chen , Marc Moreno-Maza , Jeeva Paudel , Ning Xie

Gradient Symbolic Computation is proposed as a means of solving discrete global optimization problems using a neurally plausible continuous stochastic dynamical system. Gradient symbolic dynamics involves two free parameters that must be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Paul Tupper , Paul Smolensky , Pyeong Whan Cho

Providing feedback on programming assignments is a tedious task for the instructor, and even impossible in large Massive Open Online Courses with thousands of students. Previous research has suggested that program repair techniques can be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Sumit Gulwani , Ivan Radiček , Florian Zuleger

Modern day engineering problems are ubiquitously characterized by sophisticated computer codes that map parameters or inputs to an underlying physical process. In other situations, experimental setups are used to model the physical process…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-02 Raphael Gautier , Piyush Pandita , Sayan Ghosh , Dimitri Mavris

We address the problem of game level repair, which consists of taking a designed but non-functional game level and making it functional. This might consist of ensuring the completeness of the level, reachability of objects, or other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Debosmita Bhaumik , Julian Togelius , Georgios N. Yannakakis , Ahmed Khalifa

Termination analyses investigate the termination behavior of programs, intending to detect nontermination, which is known to cause a variety of program bugs (e.g. hanging programs, denial-of-service vulnerabilities). Beyond formal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Yoav Alon , Cristina David