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Efficient machine translation models are commercially important as they can increase inference speeds, and reduce costs and carbon emissions. Recently, there has been much interest in non-autoregressive (NAR) models, which promise faster…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Jindřich Helcl , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

Automated Program Repair (APR) is a task to automatically generate patches for the buggy code. However, most research focuses on generating correct patches while ignoring the consistency between the fixed code and the original buggy code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhenlong Dai , Bingrui Chen , Zhuoluo Zhao , Xiu Tang , Sai Wu , Chang Yao , Zhipeng Gao , Jingyuan Chen

The gap between the trepidation of program reliability and the expense of repairs underscores the indispensability of Automated Program Repair (APR). APR is instrumental in transforming vulnerable programs into more robust ones, bolstering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yuze Zhao , Zhenya Huang , Yixiao Ma , Rui Li , Kai Zhang , Hao Jiang , Qi Liu , Linbo Zhu , Yu Su

Generative Retrieval introduces a new approach to Information Retrieval by reframing it as a constrained generation task, leveraging recent advancements in Autoregressive (AR) language models. However, AR-based Generative Retrieval methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ravisri Valluri , Akash Kumar Mohankumar , Kushal Dave , Amit Singh , Jian Jiao , Manik Varma , Gaurav Sinha

Non-autoregressive generation (NAG) has recently attracted great attention due to its fast inference speed. However, the generation quality of existing NAG models still lags behind their autoregressive counterparts. In this work, we show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yixuan Su , Deng Cai , Yan Wang , David Vandyke , Simon Baker , Piji Li , Nigel Collier

Learning-based program repair has achieved good results in a recent series of papers. Yet, we observe that the related work fails to repair some bugs because of a lack of knowledge about 1) the application domain of the program being…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-20 He Ye , Matias Martinez , Xiapu Luo , Tao Zhang , Martin Monperrus

In this work, we argue that not all sequence-to-sequence tasks require the strong inductive biases of autoregressive (AR) models. Tasks like multilingual transliteration, code refactoring, grammatical correction or text normalization often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Lakshya Tomar , Vinayak Abrol , Puneet Agarwal

Non-autoregressive (NAR) neural machine translation is usually done via knowledge distillation from an autoregressive (AR) model. Under this framework, we leverage large monolingual corpora to improve the NAR model's performance, with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jiawei Zhou , Phillip Keung

Providing personalized and timely feedback for student's programming assignments is useful for programming education. Automated program repair (APR) techniques have been used to fix the bugs in programming assignments, where the Large…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Fang Liu , Zhenwei Liu , Qianhui Zhao , Jing Jiang , Li Zhang , Ge Li , Zian Sun , Zhongqi Li , Yuchi Ma

We study reasoning tasks through a framework that integrates auto-regressive (AR) and non-autoregressive (NAR) language models. AR models, which generate text sequentially, excel at producing coherent outputs but often suffer from slow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Qihang Ai , Haiyun Jiang

Various automated program repair (APR) techniques have been proposed to fix bugs automatically in the last decade. Although recent researches have made significant progress on the effectiveness and efficiency, it is still unclear how APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Quanjun Zhang , Yuan Zhao , Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Ziyuan Wang , Lingming Zhang

Automated Program Repair (APR) uses various tools and techniques to help developers achieve functional and error-free code faster. In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained popularity as components in APR tool chains because…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Roman Macháček , Anastasiia Grishina , Max Hort , Leon Moonen

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often rely on autoregressive (AR) Transformer decoder architectures, which limit efficient inference parallelization due to their sequential nature. To this end, non-autoregressive (NAR) approaches…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Tianzi Wang , Xurong Xie , Zengrui Jin , Mengzhe Geng , Jiajun Deng , Zhaoqing Li , Shoukang Hu , Shujie Hu , Guinan Li , Mingyu Cui , Helen Meng , Xunying Liu

Non-autoregressive (NAR) models can generate sentences with less computation than autoregressive models but sacrifice generation quality. Previous studies addressed this issue through iterative decoding. This study proposes using nearest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Ayana Niwa , Sho Takase , Naoaki Okazaki

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to help developers automatically patch software bugs. However, current state-of-the-art traditional and learning-based APR techniques face the problem of limited patch variety, failing to fix complicated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Yuxiang Wei , Lingming Zhang

Program repair is an integral part of every software system's life-cycle but can be extremely challenging. To date, researchers have proposed various automated program repair (APR) techniques to reduce efforts of manual debugging. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Samuel Benton , Mengshi Zhang , Xia Li , Lingming Zhang

Automatic Program Repair (APR) aims at fixing buggy source code with less manual debugging efforts, which plays a vital role in improving software reliability and development productivity. Recent APR works have achieved remarkable progress…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Wei Yuan , Quanjun Zhang , Tieke He , Chunrong Fang , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Xiaodong Hao , Hongzhi Yin

Non-autoregressive (NAR) modeling has gained significant interest in speech processing since these models achieve dramatically lower inference time than autoregressive (AR) models while also achieving good transcription accuracy. Since NAR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Siddhant Arora , George Saon , Shinji Watanabe , Brian Kingsbury

Lipreading is an impressive technique and there has been a definite improvement of accuracy in recent years. However, existing methods for lipreading mainly build on autoregressive (AR) model, which generate target tokens one by one and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Jinglin Liu , Yi Ren , Zhou Zhao , Chen Zhang , Baoxing Huai , Nicholas Jing Yuan

Tabular data are fundamental in common machine learning applications, ranging from finance to genomics and healthcare. This paper focuses on tabular regression tasks, a field where deep learning (DL) methods are not consistently superior to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hong-Wei Wu , Wei-Yao Wang , Kuang-Da Wang , Wen-Chih Peng