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Unit testing is an essential yet frequently arduous task. Various automated unit test generation tools have been introduced to mitigate this challenge. Notably, methods based on large language models (LLMs) have garnered considerable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yinghao Chen , Zehao Hu , Chen Zhi , Junxiao Han , Shuiguang Deng , Jianwei Yin

Automatic test generation plays a critical role in software quality assurance. While the recent advances in Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating useful tests, these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Chen Yang , Junjie Chen , Bin Lin , Ziqi Wang , Jianyi Zhou

Given $p$ samples, each of which may or may not be defective, group testing (GT) aims to determine their defect status by performing tests on $n < p$ `groups', where a group is formed by mixing a subset of the $p$ samples. Assuming that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-25 Shuvayan Banerjee , Radhendushka Srivastava , James Saunderson , Ajit Rajwade

Large language models (LLMs) have notably enhanced the fluency and diversity of machine-generated text. However, this progress also presents a significant challenge in detecting the origin of a given text, and current research on detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Xianjun Yang , Wei Cheng , Yue Wu , Linda Petzold , William Yang Wang , Haifeng Chen

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) enable parallel generation and are promising for unit test generation (UTG), where efficient and large-scale automated testing is essential in software development. Despite this advantage, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Lekang Yang , Yuetong Liu , Yitong Zhang , Jia Li

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image and video generation. However, their inherently multiple step inference process imposes substantial computational overhead, hindering real-world deployment. Accelerating diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jiajun jiao , Haowei Zhu , Puyuan Yang , Jianghui Wang , Ji Liu , Ziqiong Liu , Dong Li , Yuejian Fang , Junhai Yong , Bin Wang , Emad Barsoum

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong potential for generating project-level unit tests. However, existing state-of-the-art approaches primarily rely on execution-path information to guide prompt construction, which is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Guancheng Wang , Qinghua Xu , Lionel C. Briand , Zhaoqiang Guo , Kui Liu

Recent advances in large language models for test case generation have improved branch coverage via prompt-engineered mutations. However, they still lack principled mechanisms for steering models toward specific high-risk execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Khang Tran , Khoa Nguyen , Cristian Borcea , NhatHai Phan

Structured data offers a sophisticated mechanism for the organization of information. Existing methodologies for the text-serialization of structured data in the context of large language models fail to adequately address the heterogeneity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 YiQiu Guo , Yuchen Yang , Ya Zhang , Yu Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant advancements, but the increasing complexity of tasks and higher performance demands highlight the need for continuous improvement. Some approaches utilize synthetic data generated by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Haokun Zhao , Jinyi Han , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Xiaojun Meng , Jiansheng Wei

Discrete diffusion language models (dLLMs) provide a fast and flexible alternative to autoregressive models (ARMs) via iterative denoising with parallel updates. However, their evaluation is challenging: existing metrics conflate denoiser…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Luhan Tang , Longxuan Yu , Shaorong Zhang , Greg Ver Steeg

Dataset distillation (DD) aims to generate a compact yet informative dataset that achieves performance comparable to the original dataset, thereby reducing demands on storage and computational resources. Although diffusion models have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yawen Zou , Guang Li , Zi Wang , Chunzhi Gu , Chao Zhang

We argue that diffusion models' success in modeling complex distributions is, for the most part, coming from their input conditioning. This paper investigates the representation used to condition diffusion models from the perspective that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Samuel Lavoie , Michael Noukhovitch , Aaron Courville

Due to the growing complexity of modern Integrated Circuits (ICs), there is a need for automated circuit design methods. Recent years have seen rising research in hardware design language generation to facilitate the design process. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zehua Pei , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Yu Huang , Bei Yu

We describe a novel approach to automating unit test generation for Java methods using large language models (LLMs). Existing LLM-based approaches rely on sample usage(s) of the method to test (focal method) and/or provide the entire class…

LLMs show strong performance in code generation, but their outputs lack correctness guarantees. Sample-based uncertainty estimators address this by generating multiple candidate programs and measuring their disagreement. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weilin He , Arindam Sharma , Cristina David

Modern IC complexity drives test pattern growth, with the majority of patterns targeting a small set of hard-to-detect (HTD) faults. This motivates new ATPG algorithms to improve test effectiveness specifically for HTD faults. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Wei Li , Yang Zou , Yixin Liang , José Moura , Shawn Blanton

Language model-based code generation and completion tools have been widely adopted, but they may sometimes produce code that does not meet necessary constraints, such as syntactic correctness or API existence. Constrained decoding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yongmin Li , Jia Li , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

Automated unit test generation using large language models (LLMs) holds great promise but often struggles with generating tests that are both correct and maintainable in real-world projects. This paper presents KTester, a novel framework…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Anji Li , Mingwei Liu , Zhenxi Chen , Zheng Pei , Zike Li , Dekun Dai , Yanlin Wang , Zibin Zheng

Traditional approaches to test case generation often involve manual effort and incur significant computational overhead. Additionally, these approaches are not scalable, and hence, unsuitable for complex software systems. Recently, Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Kushal Jasti , Tejamani Prashanth Sahu , Rishitha Pentyala , Muvvala Mohit , Vivek Yelleti