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We propose a new conflict-driven program synthesis technique that is capable of learning from past mistakes. Given a spurious program that violates the desired specification, our synthesis algorithm identifies the root cause of the conflict…

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems implicitly assume mutual consistency among retrieved documents -- an assumption that frequently fails in practice. We present ConflictRAG, a conflict-aware RAG framework that detects, classifies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chenyu Wang , Yingmin Liu , Yang Shu

In recent years, the interest in interpretable classification models has grown. One of the proposed ways to improve the interpretability of a rule-based classification model is to use sets (unordered collections) of rules, instead of lists…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Thiago Zafalon Miranda , Diorge Brognara Sardinha , Ricardo Cerri

Structured merge tools exploit programming language syntactic structure to enhance merge accuracy by reducing spurious conflicts reported by unstructured tools. By creating and handling full ASTs, structured tools are language-specific and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Guilherme Cavalcanti , Paulo Borba , Leonardo dos Anjos , Jonatas Clementino

Early design decisions strongly influence environmental, economic and social outcomes, yet sustainability assessment tools rarely reveal trade-offs among these three pillars. This study presents a framework for Conflict Mapping and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-15 Apala Chakrabarti

Model merging based on task vectors, i.e., the parameter differences between fine-tuned models and a shared base model, provides an efficient way to integrate multiple task-specific models into a multitask model without retraining. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zongzhen Yang , Binhang Qi , Hailong Sun , Wenrui Long , Ruobing Zhao , Xiang Gao

Combinatorial sequential decision making problems are typically modeled as mixed integer linear programs (MILPs) and solved via branch and bound (B&B) algorithms. The inherent difficulty of modeling MILPs that accurately represent…

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The highly parallel workflows of modern software development have made merging of source code a common activity for developers. The state of the practice is based on line-based merge, which is ubiquitously used with "git merge". Line-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Simon Larsén , Jean-Rémy Falleri , Benoit Baudry , Martin Monperrus

The modern software development landscape has seen a shift in focus toward mobile applications as tablets and smartphones near ubiquitous adoption. Due to this trend, the complexity of these apps has been increasing, making development and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vásquez , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Denys Poshyvanyk

In recent times, a plethora of Large Code Generation Models (LCGMs) have been proposed, showcasing significant potential in assisting developers with complex programming tasks. Benchmarking LCGMs necessitates the creation of a set of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Simin Chen , Xiaoning Feng , Xiaohong Han , Cong Liu , Wei Yang

Model merging has shown great promise at combining expert models, but the benefit of merging is unclear when merging "generalist" models trained on many tasks. We explore merging in the context of large (~100B) models, by recycling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Muhammad Khalifa , Yi-Chern Tan , Arash Ahmadian , Tom Hosking , Honglak Lee , Lu Wang , Ahmet Üstün , Tom Sherborne , Matthias Gallé

As in any interaction process, misunderstandings, ambiguity, and failures to correctly understand the interaction partner are bound to happen in human-robot interaction. We term these failures 'conflicts' and are interested in both conflict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Avinash Kumar Singh , Kai-Florian Richter

Many data management applications, such as setting up Web portals, managing enterprise data, managing community data, and sharing scientific data, require integrating data from multiple sources. Each of these sources provides a set of…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Xin Luna Dong , Laure Berti-Equille , Divesh Srivastava

Effectively managing and resolving software issues is critical for maintaining and evolving software systems. Development teams often rely on issue trackers and issue reports to track and manage the work needed during issue resolution,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Antu Saha , Oscar Chaparro

Answer set programs used in real-world applications often require that the program is usable with different input data. This, however, can often lead to contradictory statements and consequently to an inconsistent program. Causes for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Andre Thevapalan , Gabriele Kern-Isberner

We propose CURE, a novel reinforcement learning framework with a dedicated reward design that co-evolves coding and unit test generation capabilities based on their interaction outcomes, without any ground-truth code as supervision. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yinjie Wang , Ling Yang , Ye Tian , Ke Shen , Mengdi Wang

For almost two decades, mixed integer programming (MIP) solvers have used graph-based conflict analysis to learn from local infeasibilities during branch-and-bound search. In this paper, we improve MIP conflict analysis by instead using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Gioni Mexi , Felipe Serrano , Timo Berthold , Ambros Gleixner , Jakob Nordström

Incremental and parallel builds are crucial features of modern build systems. Parallelism enables fast builds by running independent tasks simultaneously, while incrementality saves time and computing resources by processing the build…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Thodoris Sotiropoulos , Stefanos Chaliasos , Dimitris Mitropoulos , Diomidis Spinellis

Recent advances in quantum computing have sparked excitement that this new computing paradigm could solve previously intractable problems. However, due to the faulty nature of current quantum hardware and quantum-intrinsic noise, the full…

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As hardware components are becoming cheaper and powerful day by day, the expected services from modern software are increasing like any thing. Developing such software has become extremely challenging. Not only the complexity, but also the…

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