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Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) aims to efficiently trigger bugs at specific target locations by prioritizing seeds whose execution paths are more likely to reach the targets. However, existing DGF approaches suffer from imprecise potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yifan Zhang , Xin Zhang

Manually designing cloze test consumes enormous time and efforts. The major challenge lies in wrong option (distractor) selection. Having carefully-design distractors improves the effectiveness of learner ability assessment. As a result,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Shang-Hsuan Chiang , Ssu-Cheng Wang , Yao-Chung Fan

Coding agents can generate web applications from natural-language descriptions, yet a recent benchmark study shows that generated applications fail to meet functional requirements in over 70% of cases. The core difficulty is that web…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yuxuan Wan , Tingshuo Liang , Jiakai Xu , Jingyu Xiao , Yintong Huo , Michael R Lyu

Function-level code generation leverages foundation Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically produce source code with expected functionality. It has been widely investigated and applied in intelligent programming assistants, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hao Wen , Yueheng Zhu , Chao Liu , Xiaoxue Ren , Weiwei Du , Meng Yan

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various NLP tasks. However, traditional fine-tuning methods for leveraging PLMs for downstream tasks entail significant computational overhead. Prompt-tuning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ali Shakeri , Wei Emma Zhang , Amin Beheshti , Weitong Chen , Jian Yang , Lishan Yang

This paper introduces DLM-One, a score-distillation-based framework for one-step sequence generation with continuous diffusion language models (DLMs). DLM-One eliminates the need for iterative refinement by aligning the scores of a student…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tianqi Chen , Shujian Zhang , Mingyuan Zhou

Text generation aims to produce human-like natural language output for down-stream tasks. It covers a wide range of applications like machine translation, document summarization, dialogue generation and so on. Recently deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Xiaoyu Shen

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed across applications. However, ensuring their reliability remains a challenge, and in many situations, alternative models with similar functionality and accuracy are available.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zohreh Aghababaeyan , Manel Abdellatif , Lionel Briand , Ramesh S

Differential testing can be an effective way to find bugs in software systems with multiple implementations that conform to the same specification, like compilers, network protocol parsers, or language runtimes. Specifications for such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Nikitha Rao , Elizabeth Gilbert , Harrison Green , Tahina Ramananandro , Nikhil Swamy , Claire Le Goues , Sarah Fakhoury

We introduce fidelity probes: natural-language questions generated from a reference artifact with code-derived ground-truth answers, answered from a candidate specification. The fraction of agreeing probes, which we call the fidelity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ferhat Erata , Hao Zhou , Luke Huan

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated a remarkable ability to generate code from natural language (NL) prompts. However, in the real world, NL is often too ambiguous to capture the true intent behind programming problems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yeming Wen , Pengcheng Yin , Kensen Shi , Henryk Michalewski , Swarat Chaudhuri , Alex Polozov

Writing software tests is laborious and time-consuming. To address this, prior studies introduced various automated test-generation techniques. A well-explored research direction in this field is unit test generation, wherein artificial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Arkadii Sapozhnikov , Mitchell Olsthoorn , Annibale Panichella , Vladimir Kovalenko , Pouria Derakhshanfar

Prompt learning is an effective way to exploit the potential of large-scale pre-trained foundational models. Continuous prompts parameterize context tokens in prompts by turning them into differentiable vectors. Deep continuous prompts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhenhan Huang , Tejaswini Pedapati , Pin-Yu Chen , Jianxi Gao

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, when interacting with LLMs, users have no guarantees that the…

Many applications today use large language models for code generation; however, production systems have strict latency requirements that can be difficult to meet with large models. Small language models with a few billion parameters are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Renjini R. Nair , Damian K. Kowalczyk , Marco Gaudesi , Chhaya Methani

Natural language generation tools are powerful and effective for generating content. However, language models are known to display bias and fairness issues, making them impractical to deploy for many use cases. We here focus on how fairness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Kevin Stowe , Benny Longwill , Alyssa Francis , Tatsuya Aoyama , Debanjan Ghosh , Swapna Somasundaran

Prompt learning has become a dominant paradigm for adapting vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP to downstream tasks without modifying pretrained weights. While extending prompts to both vision and text encoders across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Sajjad Ghiasvand , Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

Automated unit test case generation tools facilitate test-driven development and support developers by suggesting tests intended to identify flaws in their code. Existing approaches are usually guided by the test coverage criteria,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Michele Tufano , Dawn Drain , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Shao Kun Deng , Neel Sundaresan

Automated code generation can be a powerful technique for software development, significantly reducing developers' efforts and time required to create new code by generating it automatically based on requirements. Recently, OpenAI's…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chao Liu , Xuanlin Bao , Hongyu Zhang , Neng Zhang , Haibo Hu , Xiaohong Zhang , Meng Yan

The wide-ranging applications of large language models (LLMs), especially in safety-critical domains, necessitate the proper evaluation of the LLM's adversarial robustness. This paper proposes an efficient tool to audit the LLM's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xilie Xu , Keyi Kong , Ning Liu , Lizhen Cui , Di Wang , Jingfeng Zhang , Mohan Kankanhalli