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The size and complexity of software applications is increasing at an accelerating pace. Source code repositories (along with their dependencies) require vast amounts of labor to keep them tested, maintained, and up to date. As the…

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In this paper, we introduce Rule-Guided Feedback (RGF), a framework designed to enhance Large Language Model (LLM) performance through structured rule adherence and strategic information seeking. RGF implements a teacher-student paradigm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Aissatou Diallo , Antonis Bikakis , Luke Dickens , Anthony Hunter , Rob Miller

We consider the problem of neural semantic parsing, which translates natural language questions into executable SQL queries. We introduce a new mechanism, execution guidance, to leverage the semantics of SQL. It detects and excludes faulty…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Chenglong Wang , Kedar Tatwawadi , Marc Brockschmidt , Po-Sen Huang , Yi Mao , Oleksandr Polozov , Rishabh Singh

The use of large language models (LLMs) for automated code generation has emerged as a significant focus within AI research. As these pretrained models continue to evolve, their ability to understand and generate complex code structures has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Nazmus Ashrafi , Salah Bouktif , Mohammed Mediani

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has recently emerged in text-to-image generation as a lightweight technique to encourage prompt-adherence in generations. In this work, we demonstrate that CFG can be used broadly as an inference-time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Guillaume Sanchez , Honglu Fan , Alexander Spangher , Elad Levi , Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi , Stella Biderman

To adequately test modern code generation systems, evaluation benchmarks must execute and test the code generated by the system. However, these execution and testing requirements have largely limited benchmarks to settings where code is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yiqing Xie , Alex Xie , Divyanshu Sheth , Pengfei Liu , Daniel Fried , Carolyn Rose

Code generation stands as a powerful technique in modern software development, improving development efficiency, reducing errors, and fostering standardization and consistency. Recently, ChatGPT has exhibited immense potential in automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Youjia Li , Jianjun Shi , Zheng Zhang

Instruction following has catalyzed the recent era of Large Language Models (LLMs) and is the foundational skill underpinning more advanced capabilities such as reasoning and agentic behaviors. As tasks grow more challenging, the logic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Mian Zhang , Shujian Liu , Sixun Dong , Ming Yin , Yebowen Hu , Xun Wang , Steven Ma , Song Wang , Sathish Reddy Indurthi , Haoyun Deng , Zhiyu Zoey Chen , Kaiqiang Song

Existing work on controlled text generation (CTG) assumes a control interface of categorical attributes. In this work, we propose a natural language (NL) interface, where we craft a PCFG to embed the control attributes into natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jingyu Zhang , James Glass , Tianxing He

Code generation and understanding are critical capabilities for large language models (LLMs). Thus, most LLMs are pretrained and fine-tuned on code data. However, these datasets typically treat code as static strings and rarely exploit the…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in code generation tasks and have become indispensable programming assistants for developers. However, existing code generation benchmarks primarily assess the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Peiding Wang , Li Zhang , Fang Liu , Lin Shi , Minxiao Li , Bo Shen , An Fu

Executing code is essential for various program analysis tasks, e.g., to detect bugs that manifest through exceptions or to obtain execution traces for further dynamic analysis. However, executing an arbitrary piece of code is often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Beatriz Souza , Michael Pradel

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great promise in generating code, especially when used inside an evolutionary computation framework to iteratively optimize the generated algorithms. However, in some cases they fail to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Niki van Stein , Anna V. Kononova , Lars Kotthoff , Thomas Bäck

Utilizing large language models to generate codes has shown promising meaning in software development revolution. Despite the intelligence shown by the large language models, their specificity in code generation can still be improved due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kounianhua Du , Jizheng Chen , Renting Rui , Huacan Chai , Lingyue Fu , Wei Xia , Yasheng Wang , Ruiming Tang , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is widely used in diffusion models but often introduces over-contrast and over-saturation artifacts at higher guidance strengths. We present EP-CFG (Energy-Preserving Classifier-Free Guidance), which addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan , Sai Bi , Jianming Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in automating significant aspects of coding by producing natural code from informal natural language (NL) intent. However, given NL is informal, it does not lend easily to checking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Sarah Fakhoury , Aaditya Naik , Georgios Sakkas , Saikat Chakraborty , Shuvendu K. Lahiri

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress in automated code generation. Yet, LLM-generated code may contain errors in API usage, class, data structure, or missing project-specific information. As much of this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zhangqian Bi , Yao Wan , Zheng Wang , Hongyu Zhang , Batu Guan , Fangxin Lu , Zili Zhang , Yulei Sui , Hai Jin , Xuanhua Shi

Decoding linguistic information from non-invasive brain signals using EEG has gained increasing research attention due to its vast applicational potential. Recently, a number of works have adopted a generative-based framework to decode…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Jinzhao Zhou , Yiqun Duan , Ziyi Zhao , Yu-Cheng Chang , Yu-Kai Wang , Thomas Do , Chin-Teng Lin

We describe test code generation using Large Language Models (LLMs) in Ericsson. Our input is a test step in natural language (English) and our output is code (Java) which accomplishes the test step. We describe how straight forward…

Code generation refers to automatically producing executable programs from user requirements. Recently, researchers have explored approaches to enhance the correctness of generated code with advanced large language models. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jia Li , Ruiqi Bai , Yangkang Luo , Yiran Zhang , Wentao Yang , Zeyu Sun , Tiankuo Zhao , Dongming Jin , Lei Li , Zhi Jin