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We propose a path-based approach to program repair for imperative programs. Our repair framework takes as input a faulty program, a logic specification that is refuted, and a hint where the fault may be located. An iterative abstraction…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Heinz Riener , Rüdiger Ehlers , Görschwin Fey

The rising popularity of declarative languages and the hard to debug nature thereof have motivated the need for applicable, automated repair techniques for such languages. However, despite significant advances in the program repair of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Simón Gutiérrez Brida , Germán Regis , Guolong Zhengz , Hamid Bagheriz , ThanhVu Nguyenz , Nazareno Aguirre , Marcelo Frias

Automated Program Repair (APR) proposes bug fixes to aid developers in maintaining software. The state of the art in this domain focuses on LLMs, leveraging their strong capabilities to comprehend specifications in natural language and to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Viola Campos , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Adrian Ulges , Yannic Noller

Fault Localization (FL) is a critical step in Automated Program Repair (APR), and its importance has increased with the rise of Large Language Model (LLM)-based repair agents. In realistic project-level repair scenarios, software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Melika Sepidband , Hamed Taherkhani , Hung Viet Pham , Hadi Hemmati

Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping automated program repair. We present a unified taxonomy that groups 62 recent LLM-based repair systems into four paradigms defined by parameter adaptation and control authority over the repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Boyang Yang , Zijian Cai , Fengling Liu , Bach Le , Lingming Zhang , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Yang Liu , Haoye Tian

In this presentation, we introduce our constraint-based repair approach, called SymDefFix. SymDefFix is based on ExtractFix [3] and replaces the dynamic analysis steps of ExtractFix to detect the error and find the potential fix locations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Tareq Mohammed Nazir , Martin Pinzger

For a relation that violates a set of functional dependencies, we consider the task of finding a maximum number of pairwise-consistent tuples, or what is known as a "cardinality repair." We present a polynomial-time algorithm that, for…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Ester Livshits , Benny Kimelfeld

Spelling correction is a fundamental task in Text Mining. In this study, we assess the real-word error correction model proposed by Mays, Damerau and Mercer and describe several drawbacks of the model. We propose a new variation which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Seyed MohammadSadegh Dashti

Students often make mistakes on their introductory programming assignments as part of their learning process. Unfortunately, providing custom repairs for these mistakes can require a substantial amount of time and effort from class…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jialu Zhang , José Cambronero , Sumit Gulwani , Vu Le , Ruzica Piskac , Gustavo Soares , Gust Verbruggen

In this paper, we explore the issue of inconsistency handling over prioritized knowledge bases (KBs), which consist of an ontology, a set of facts, and a priority relation between conflicting facts. In the database setting, a closely…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Meghyn Bienvenu , Camille Bourgaux

Conceptual analysis -- proposing definitions and refining them through counterexamples -- is central to philosophical methodology. We study whether language models can perform this task through iterated analysis and repair chains: one model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Daniel Drucker , Kyle Mahowald

Automatic Program Repair (APR) is a brilliant idea: when detecting a bug, also provide suggestions for correcting the program. Progress towards that goal is hindered by the absence of a common frame of reference for the multiplicity of APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Victoria Kananchuk , Ilgiz Mustafin , Bertrand Meyer

A significant portion of student programming submissions in CS1 learning environments are uncompilable, limiting their use in student modeling and downstream knowledge tracing. Traditional modeling pipelines often exclude these cases,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Griffin Pitts , Aum Pandya , Darsh Rank , Tirth Bhatt , Muntasir Hoq , Bita Akram

The existing deep learning (DL)-based automated program repair (APR) models are limited in fixing general software defects. % We present {\tool}, a DL-based approach that supports fixing for the general bugs that require dependent changes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yi Li , Shaohua Wang , Tien N. Nguyen

We prove that certain formulations of program synthesis and reachability are equivalent. Specifically, our constructive proof shows the reductions between the template-based synthesis problem, which generates a program in a pre-specified…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-03-29 ThanhVu Nguyen , Westley Weimer , Deepak Kapur , Stephanie Forrest

We consider the following \emph{model repair problem}: given a finite Kripke structure $M$ and a specification formula $\eta$ in some modal or temporal logic, determine if $M$ contains a substructure $M'$ (with the same initial state) that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-04-15 Paul C. Attie , Jad Saklawi

We investigate practical algorithms for inconsistency-tolerant query answering over prioritized knowledge bases, which consist of a logical theory, a set of facts, and a priority relation between conflicting facts. We consider three…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Meghyn Bienvenu , Camille Bourgaux

We present a formal framework for repairing infinite-state, imperative, sequential programs, with (possibly recursive) procedures and multiple assertions; the framework can generate repaired programs by modifying the original erroneous…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Roopsha Samanta , Oswaldo Olivo , E. Allen Emerson

Many techniques for automated program repair involve syntactic program transformations. Applying combinations of such transformations on faulty code yields fix candidates whose correctness must be determined. Exploring these combinations…

With the increased use of ontologies in semantically-enabled applications, the issue of debugging defects in ontologies has become increasingly important. These defects can lead to wrong or incomplete results for the applications. Debugging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Patrick Lambrix , Zlatan Dragisic , Valentina Ivanova