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While several studies have examined the security of code generated by GPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs), most have relied on controlled experiments rather than real developer interactions. This paper investigates the security of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Vladislav Belozerov , Peter J Barclay , Ashkan Sami

Explaining the prediction results of software defect prediction models is a challenging while practical task, which can provide useful information for developers to understand and fix the predicted bugs. To address this issue, recently,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jiho Shin , Reem Aleithan , Jaechang Nam , Junjie Wang , Song Wang

We introduce a novel universal soft-decision decoding algorithm for binary block codes called ordered reliability direct error pattern testing (ORDEPT). Our results, obtained for a variety of popular short high-rate codes, demonstrate that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Reza Hadavian , Xiaoting Huang , Dmitri Truhachev , Kamal El-Sankary , Hamid Ebrahimzad , Hossein Najafi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited exceptional performance in software engineering yet face challenges in adapting to continually evolving code knowledge, particularly regarding the frequent updates of third-party library APIs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Chenlong Wang , Zhaoyang Chu , Zhengxiang Cheng , Xuyi Yang , Kaiyue Qiu , Yao Wan , Zhou Zhao , Xuanhua Shi , Dongping Chen

With the rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their large-scale experimentation in cloud-computing spaces, the challenge of guaranteeing their security and efficiency in a failure scenario has become a main issue. To ensure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yihong Jin , Ze Yang , Xinhe Xu , Yihan Zhang , Shuyang Ji

Frontier Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini can decipher cryptic compiler errors for novice programmers, but their computational scale, cost, and tendency to over-assist make them problematic for widespread pedagogical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Lorenzo Lee Solano , Charles Koutcheme , Juho Leinonen , Alexandra Vassar , Jake Renzella

Instruction-level error injection analyses aim to find instructions where errors often lead to unacceptable outcomes like Silent Data Corruptions (SDCs). These analyses require significant time, which is especially problematic if developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Keyur Joshi , Rahul Singh , Tommaso Bassetto , Sarita Adve , Darko Marinov , Sasa Misailovic

Software vulnerabilities represent one of the most pressing threats to computing systems. Identifying vulnerabilities in source code is crucial for protecting user privacy and reducing economic losses. Traditional static analysis tools rely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhonghao Jiang , Weifeng Sun , Xiaoyan Gu , Jiaxin Wu , Tao Wen , Haibo Hu , Meng Yan

Code large language models (LLMs) enhance programming by understanding and generating code across languages, offering intelligent feedback, bug detection, and code updates through reflection, improving development efficiency and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wei Zhang , Jian Yang , Jiaxi Yang , Ya Wang , Zhoujun Li , Zeyu Cui , Binyuan Hui , Junyang Lin

We introduce LeetCodeDataset, a high-quality benchmark for evaluating and training code-generation models, addressing two key challenges in LLM research: the lack of reasoning-focused coding benchmarks and self-contained training testbeds.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yunhui Xia , Wei Shen , Yan Wang , Jason Klein Liu , Huifeng Sun , Siyue Wu , Jian Hu , Xiaolong Xu

Continuous integration (CI) is widely used by developers to ensure the quality and reliability of their software projects. However, diagnosing a CI regression is a tedious process that involves the manual analysis of lengthy build logs. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Nicolas Hubner , Jean-Rémy Falleri , Raluca Uricaru , Thomas Degueule , Thomas Durieux

Competitive programming has become a popular way for programmers to test their skills. Large-scale online programming contests attract millions of experienced programmers to compete against each other. Competition-level programming problems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jialu Zhang , De Li , John C. Kolesar , Hanyuan Shi , Ruzica Piskac

Providing effective feedback is important for student learning in programming problem-solving. In this sense, Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as potential tools to automate feedback generation. However, their reliability and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Priscylla Silva , Evandro Costa

Large Language Models are a promising tool for automated vulnerability detection, thanks to their success in code generation and repair. However, despite widespread adoption, a critical question remains: Are LLMs truly effective at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yue Li , Xiao Li , Hao Wu , Minghui Xu , Yue Zhang , Xiuzhen Cheng , Fengyuan Xu , Sheng Zhong

LLM-based vulnerability detectors are increasingly deployed in CI/CD security gating, yet their resilience to evasion under syntax- and compilation-preserving edits remains poorly understood. We evaluate five attack variants spanning four…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Luze Sun , Alina Oprea , Eric Wong

Identifying the point of error is imperative in software debugging. Traditional fault localization (FL) techniques rely on executing the program and using the code coverage matrix in tandem with test case results to calculate a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Suhwan Ji , Sanghwa Lee , Changsup Lee , Hyeonseung Im , Yo-Sub Han

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in software vulnerability detection, particularly on function-level benchmarks like Devign and BigVul. However, real-world detection requires interprocedural analysis, as vulnerabilities often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Alperen Yildiz , Sin G. Teo , Yiling Lou , Yebo Feng , Chong Wang , Dinil M. Divakaran

This paper introduces a novel code-to-code search technique that enhances the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) by including both static and dynamic features as well as utilizing both similar and dissimilar examples during…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Anthony Saieva , Saikat Chakraborty , Gail Kaiser

Recent studies have adopted pre-trained language models, such as CodeT5 and CodeGPT, for automated program generation tasks like code generation, repair, and translation. Numerous language model-based approaches have been proposed and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yue Liu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Yonghui Liu , Li Li

Understanding code represents a core ability needed for automating software development tasks. While foundation models like LLMs show impressive results across many software engineering challenges, the extent of their true semantic…

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