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Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Duc Anh Le , Anh M. T. Bui , Phuong T. Nguyen , Davide Di Ruscio

In order to gain a better understanding of the state space of programs, with the aim of making their verification more tractable, models based on directed topological spaces have been introduced, allowing to take in account equivalence…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Samuel Mimram , Aly-Bora Ulusoy

Polyhedral compilers perform optimizations such as tiling and parallelization; when doing both, they usually generate code that executes "barrier-synchronized wavefronts" of tiles. We present a system to express and generate code for hybrid…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Tian Jin , Nirmal Prajapati , Waruna Ranasinghe , Guillaume Iooss , Yun Zou , Sanjay Rajopadhye , David Wonnacott

Due to the development of pre-trained language models, automated code generation techniques have shown great promise in recent years. However, the generated code is difficult to meet the syntactic constraints of the target language,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Guang Yang , Yu Zhou , Xiang Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Yiran Xu , Tingting Han , Taolue Chen

A challenging problem for autonomous systems is to synthesize a reactive controller that conforms to a set of given correctness properties. Linear temporal logic (LTL) provides a formal language to specify the desired behavioral properties…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Rayna Dimitrova , Mahsa Ghasemi , Ufuk Topcu

Prior work has combined chain-of-thought prompting in large language models (LLMs) with programmatic representations to perform effective and transparent reasoning. While such an approach works well for tasks that only require forward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Xi Ye , Qiaochu Chen , Isil Dillig , Greg Durrett

Structured, procedural reasoning is essential for Large Language Models (LLMs), especially in mathematics. While post-training methods have improved LLM performance, they still fall short in capturing deep procedural logic on complex tasks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zhichao Yang , Zhaoxin Fan , Gen Li , Yuanze Hu , Xinyu Wang , Ye Qiu , Xin Wang , Yifan Sun , Wenjun Wu

Automatically generating compilable programs with (or without) natural language descriptions has always been a touchstone problem for computational linguistics and automated software engineering. Existing deep-learning approaches model code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Xin Wang , Yasheng Wang , Yao Wan , Fei Mi , Yitong Li , Pingyi Zhou , Jin Liu , Hao Wu , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Logic locking "hides" the functionality of a digital circuit to protect it from counterfeiting, piracy, and malicious design modifications. The original design is transformed into a "locked" design such that the circuit reveals its correct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Gourav Takhar , Ramesh Karri , Christian Pilato , Subhajit Roy

Compiler error messages serve as an initial resource for programmers dealing with compilation errors. However, previous studies indicate that they often lack sufficient targeted information to resolve code issues. Consequently, programmers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Patricia Widjojo , Christoph Treude

We develop a simple functional programming language aimed at manipulating infinite, but first-order definable structures, such as the countably infinite clique graph or the set of all intervals with rational endpoints. Internally, such sets…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Bartek Klin , Michał Szynwelski

This paper presents RTLFixer, a novel framework enabling automatic syntax errors fixing for Verilog code with Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite LLM's promising capabilities, our analysis indicates that approximately 55% of errors in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Yun-Da Tsai , Mingjie Liu , Haoxing Ren

Automated program repair (APR) faces the challenge of test overfitting, where generated patches pass validation tests but fail to generalize. Existing methods for patch assessment involve generating new tests or manual inspection, which can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Thanh Le-Cong , Duc-Minh Luong , Xuan Bach D. Le , David Lo , Nhat-Hoa Tran , Bui Quang-Huy , Quyet-Thang Huynh

Coding standards are essential for maintaining consistent and high-quality code across teams and projects. Linters help developers enforce these standards by detecting code violations. However, manual linter configuration is complex and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zejun Zhang , Yixin Gan , Zhenchang Xing , Tian Zhang , Yi Li , Xiwei Xu , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

Modern software is developed under considerable time pressure, which implies that developers more often than not have to resort to compromises when it comes to code that is well written and code that just does the job. This has led over the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Rungroj Maipradit , Bin Lin , Csaba Nagy , Gabriele Bavota , Michele Lanza , Hideaki Hata , Kenichi Matsumoto

Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL) is a well studied real-time, temporal logic that has decidable satisfiability and model checking problems. The decision procedures for MITL rely on the automata theoretic approach, where logic formulas…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Nima Roohi , Mahesh Viswanathan

Large Language Models (LLMs) require sophisticated prompting, yet current practices face challenges in structure, data integration, format sensitivity, and tooling. Existing methods lack comprehensive solutions for organizing complex…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yuge Zhang , Nan Chen , Jiahang Xu , Yuqing Yang

Flow matching based video generative models have been increasingly relying on prepended Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to handle complex, instruction-based video editing. The prevailing assumption underlying this paradigm is that a connector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hangyu Lin , Chao Wen , Chengming Xu , Jianxiong Gao , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Yanwei Fu

Online programming platforms such as Codeforces and LeetCode attract millions of users seeking to learn to program or refine their skills for industry interviews. A major challenge for these users is the Time Limit Exceeded (TLE) error,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jialu Zhang , Jialiang Gu , Wangmeiyu Zhang , José Pablo Cambronero , John Kolesar , Ruzica Piskac , Daming Li , Hanyuan Shi

Recent work has proposed a promising approach to improving scalability of program synthesis by allowing the user to supply a syntactic template that constrains the space of potential programs. Unfortunately, creating templates often…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jeevana Priya Inala , Nadia Polikarpova , Xiaokang Qiu , Benjamin S. Lerner , Armando Solar-Lezama