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We address a not-widely-recognized subset of exploratory search, where a user sets out on a typically long "search quest" for the perfect wedding dress, overlooked research topic, killer company idea, etc. The first few outputs of current…

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Large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved their ability to perform tasks in the field of code generation. However, there is still a gap between LLMs being capable coders and being top-tier software engineers. Based on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Jie JW Wu , Fatemeh H Fard

Ensuring large language models' (LLMs) responses align with prompt instructions is crucial for application development. Based on our formative study with industry professionals, the alignment requires heavy human involvement and tedious…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ishika Joshi , Simra Shahid , Shreeya Venneti , Manushree Vasu , Yantao Zheng , Yunyao Li , Balaji Krishnamurthy , Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan

In this work, we explore explicit Large Language Model (LLM)-powered support for the iterative design of computer programs. Program design, like other design activity, is characterized by navigating a space of alternative problem…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-11 J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira , Eunice Jun , Michael Terry , Qian Yang , Björn Hartmann

Integrating free-text explanations to in-context learning of large language models (LLM) is shown to elicit strong reasoning capabilities along with reasonable explanations. In this paper, we consider the problem of leveraging the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Shiyang Li , Jianshu Chen , Yelong Shen , Zhiyu Chen , Xinlu Zhang , Zekun Li , Hong Wang , Jing Qian , Baolin Peng , Yi Mao , Wenhu Chen , Xifeng Yan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in manipulating natural language across multiple applications, but their ability to handle simple reasoning tasks is often questioned. In this work, we aim to provide a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Alessandro Raganato , Rafael Peñaloza , Marco Viviani , Gabriella Pasi

When using large language models (LLMs) in high-stakes applications, we need to know when we can trust their predictions. Some works argue that prompting high-performance LLMs is sufficient to produce calibrated uncertainties, while others…

Design assistants are frameworks, tools or applications intended to facilitate both the creative and technical facets of design processes. Large language models (LLMs) are AI systems engineered to analyze and produce text resembling human…

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Today, users ask Large language models (LLMs) as assistants to answer queries that require external knowledge; they ask about the weather in a specific city, about stock prices, and even about where specific locations are within their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jieyu Zhang , Ranjay Krishna , Ahmed H. Awadallah , Chi Wang

Interaction with Large Language Models (LLMs) is primarily carried out via prompting. A prompt is a natural language instruction designed to elicit certain behaviour or output from a model. In theory, natural language prompts enable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Michael Desmond , Michelle Brachman

Background and Context: Over the past year, large language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm. In computing education, like in other walks of life, many opportunities and threats have emerged as a consequence. Objectives: In this…

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Programming assistants powered by large language models (LLMs) have become widely available, with conversational assistants like ChatGPT particularly accessible to novice programmers. However, varied tool capabilities and inconsistent…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming programming practices, offering significant capabilities for code generation activities. While researchers have explored the potential of LLMs in various domains, this paper focuses on their use…

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Search-based test generators are effective at producing unit tests with high coverage. However, such automatically generated tests have no meaningful test and variable names, making them hard to understand and interpret by developers. On…

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Large Language Models prompting, such as using in-context demonstrations, is a mainstream technique for invoking LLMs to perform high-performance and solid complex reasoning (e.g., mathematical reasoning, commonsense reasoning), and has the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zhicheng Yang , Yinya Huang , Jing Xiong , Liang Feng , Xiaodan Liang , Yiwei Wang , Jing Tang

Large language models (LLMs) have become essential tools in software development, widely used for requirements engineering, code generation and review tasks. Software engineers often rely on LLMs to verify if code implementation satisfy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haolin Jin , Huaming Chen

In this paper, we explore the application of large language models (LLMs) for generating code-tracing questions in introductory programming courses. We designed targeted prompts for GPT4, guiding it to generate code-tracing questions based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Aysa Xuemo Fan , Ranran Haoran Zhang , Luc Paquette , Rui Zhang

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated the development of automated techniques and tools for supporting various software engineering tasks, e.g., program understanding, code generation, software testing, and program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Maja Vukovic , Rangeet Pan , Tin Kam Ho , Rahul Krishna , Raju Pavuluri , Michele Merler

Natural language as a medium for human-computer interaction has long been anticipated, has been undergoing a sea-change with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) with startling capacities for processing and generating language. Many…

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