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Fault localization (FL) is a critical step in debugging, which typically relies on repeated executions to pinpoint faulty code regions. However, repeated executions can be impractical in the presence of non-deterministic failures or high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ahmadreza Saboor Yaraghi , Golnaz Gharachorlu , Sakina Fatima , Lionel C. Briand , Ruiyuan Wan , Ruifeng Gao

Assertions have been the de facto collateral for simulation-based and formal verification of hardware designs for over a decade. The quality of hardware verification, \ie, detection and diagnosis of corner-case design bugs, is critically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Vaishnavi Pulavarthi , Deeksha Nandal , Soham Dan , Debjit Pal

In software development, bug report reproduction is a challenging task. This paper introduces ReBL, a novel feedback-driven approach that leverages GPT-4, a large-scale language model (LLM), to automatically reproduce Android bug reports.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Dingbang Wang , Yu Zhao , Sidong Feng , Zhaoxu Zhang , William G. J. Halfond , Chunyang Chen , Xiaoxia Sun , Jiangfan Shi , Tingting Yu

Automatically generating bug reproduction tests (BRT) from issue descriptions is crucial for software maintenance. LLM-based approaches have shown great potential for this task. Their effectiveness heavily relies on retrieving high-quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Junyi Wang , Jialun Cao , Zhongxin Liu

Automated unit test generation is critical for software quality but traditional structure-driven methods often lack the semantic understanding required to produce realistic inputs and oracles. Large language models (LLMs) address this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Bei Chu , Yang Feng , Kui Liu , Zhaoqiang Guo , Yichi Zhang , Hange Shi , Zifan Nan , Baowen Xu

The latest research on Large Language Models (LLMs) has demonstrated significant advancement in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, despite this progress, there is still a lack of reliability in these models. This is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 André Schamschurko , Nenad Petrovic , Alois Christian Knoll

One common strategy for improving the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on downstream tasks involves using a \emph{verifier model} to either select the best answer from a pool of candidates or to steer the auto-regressive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Theo Uscidda , Matthew Trager , Michael Kleinman , Aditya Chattopadhyay , Wei Xia , Stefano Soatto

Traditional benchmarks for large language models (LLMs), such as HELM and AIR-BENCH, primarily assess safety risk through breadth-oriented evaluation across diverse tasks. However, real-world deployment often exposes a different class of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Keita Broadwater

Large Language Models (LLMs) can correct their self-generated responses, but a decline in accuracy after self-correction is also witnessed. To have a deeper understanding of self-correction, we endeavor to decompose, evaluate, and analyze…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhe Yang , Yichang Zhang , Yudong Wang , Ziyao Xu , Junyang Lin , Zhifang Sui

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated excellent performance, inspiring researchers to explore their use in automating register transfer level (RTL) code generation and improving hardware design efficiency. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Peiyang Wu , Nan Guo , Xiao Xiao , Wenming Li , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating software code for high-level programming languages such as Python and C++. However, their application to hardware description languages, such as Verilog,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yan Tan , Xiangchen Meng , Zijun Jiang , Yangdi Lyu

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in critical domains has spurred extensive research into their security issues. While input manipulation attacks (e.g., prompt injection) have been well studied, Bit-Flip Attacks (BFAs) --…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Haotian Xu , Qingsong Peng , Jie Shi , Huadi Zheng , Yu Li , Cheng Zhuo

This work investigates the potential of tailoring Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically GPT3.5 and GPT4, for the domain of chip testing. A key aspect of chip design is functional testing, which relies on testbenches to evaluate the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jitendra Bhandari , Johann Knechtel , Ramesh Narayanaswamy , Siddharth Garg , Ramesh Karri

The rise of instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) marks a significant advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) (tailored to respond to specific prompts). Despite their popularity, applying such models to debug security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Mohammad Akyash , Hadi Mardani Kamali

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in natural language processing tasks, yet their application in hardware security verification remains limited due to scarcity of publicly available hardware description…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Touseef Hasan , Blessing Airehenbuwa , Nitin Pundir , Souvika Sarkar , Ujjwal Guin

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated immense potential in computer-aided design (CAD), particularly for automated debugging and verification within electronic design automation (EDA) tools. However, Design for Testability (DFT)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haomin Qi , Yuyang Du , Lihao Zhang , Soung Chang Liew , Kexin Chen , Yining Du

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on code generation. However, for complex programming tasks, generating the correct solution in one go becomes challenging, thus some prior works have designed program repair…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Xinyun Chen , Maxwell Lin , Nathanael Schärli , Denny Zhou

Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) are a cornerstone of academic research, yet they are often labour-intensive and time-consuming due to the detailed literature curation process. The advent of generative AI and large language models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Moritz Staudinger , Wojciech Kusa , Florina Piroi , Aldo Lipani , Allan Hanbury

Research shows that errors in natural language can be corrected by translating texts to another language and back using language models. We explore to what extent this latent correction capability extends to Automated Program Repair (APR)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Fernando Vallecillos Ruiz , Anastasiia Grishina , Max Hort , Leon Moonen

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge retrieved from a knowledge base. However, its effectiveness is fundamentally constrained by the reliability of both the retriever…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Yiteng Tu , Weihang Su , Yujia Zhou , Yiqun Liu , Qingyao Ai