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The effectiveness of a test suite in detecting faults highly depends on the correctness and completeness of its test oracles. Large Language Models (LLMs) have already demonstrated remarkable proficiency in tackling diverse software testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Facundo Molina , Alessandra Gorla

Software contracts allow programmers to state rich program properties using the full expressive power of an object language. However, since they are enforced at runtime, monitoring contracts imposes significant overhead and delays error…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Phuc C. Nguyen , Thomas Gilray , Sam Tobin-Hochstadt , David Van Horn

Data quality is a key element for building and optimizing good learning models. Despite many attempts to characterize data quality, there is still a need for rigorous formalization and an efficient measure of the quality from available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Jouseau Roxane , Salva Sébastien , Samir Chafik

The modernization of existing and new nuclear power plants with digital instrumentation and control systems (DI&C) is a recent and highly trending topic. However, there lacks strong consensus on best-estimate reliability methodologies by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Edward Chen , Han Bao , Tate Shorthill , Carl Elks , Athira Varma Jayakumar , Nam Dinh

We consider the problem of deciding whether a given state preparation, i.e., a source of quantum states, is accurate, namely produces states close to a target one within a prescribed threshold. We show that, when multiple measurements need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Weichao Liang , Francesco Ticozzi , Giuseppe Vallone

In this work, we consider the fundamental task of quantum state certification: given copies of an unknown quantum state $\rho$, test whether it matches some target state $\sigma$ or is $\epsilon$-far from it. For certifying $d$-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Chirag Wadhwa , Sitan Chen

The oracle property of model selection procedures has attracted a large volume of favorable publications in the literature, but also faced criticisms of being ineffective and misleading in applications. In this paper, we introduce a class…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Xianyi Wu , Xian Zhou

We define and study a new type of quantum oracle, the quantum conditional oracle, which provides oracle access to the conditional probabilities associated with an underlying distribution. Amongst other properties, we (a) obtain speed-ups…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Imdad S. B. Sardharwalla , Sergii Strelchuk , Richard Jozsa

Software engineering and information systems practices seek ultimately to create the flawless product. One of the tools used to improve the quality of software development is the use of metrics. In this paper, metrics retrieved from open…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Mamdouh Alenezi , Ibrahim Abunadi

For incremental quantile estimators the step size and possibly other tuning parameters must be carefully set. However, little attention has been given on how to set these values in an online manner. In this article we suggest two novel…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-28 Hugo L. Hammer , Anis Yazidi , Michael A. Riegler , Håvard Rue

Software product quality can be defined as the features and characteristics of the product that meet the user needs. The quality of any software can be achieved by following a well defined software process. These software process results…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Karuna Prasad , MG Divya , N Mangala

Using the AURORA-2 digit recognition task, we show that recognition accuracies obtained with classical, SNR based oracle masks can be substantially improved by using a state-dependent mask estimation technique.

Sound · Computer Science 2009-03-19 J. F. Gemmeke , B. Cranen

Various performance measures based on the ground truth and without ground truth exist to evaluate the quality of a developed tracking algorithm. The existing popular measures - average center location error (ACLE) and average tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Ajoy Mondal

Machine learning methods can automate the in silico design of biological sequences, aiming to reduce costs and accelerate medical research. Given the limited access to wet labs, in silico design methods commonly use an oracle model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Shikha Surana , Nathan Grinsztajn , Timothy Atkinson , Paul Duckworth , Thomas D. Barrett

Generating code from a natural language programming task is one of the most successful applications of Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet, the generated program may be buggy. Without an oracle, such as an existing, correct implementation or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Thomas Valentin , Ardi Madadi , Gaetano Sapia , Marcel Böhme

Assessing the quality of an ensemble of noisy entangled states is a central task in quantum information processing. Usually this is done by measuring and hence destroying multiple copies, from which state tomography or fidelity estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Ferran Riera-Sàbat , Jorge Miguel-Ramiro , Wolfgang Dür

Software quality is considered as one of the most important challenges in software engineering. It has many dimensions which differ from users' point of view that depend on their requirements. Therefore, those dimensions lead to difficulty…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Anas Shatnawi

Field failures, that is, failures caused by faults that escape the testing phase leading to failures in the field, are unavoidable. Improving verification and validation activities before deployment can identify and timely remove many but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Luca Gazzola , Leonardo Mariani , Fabrizio Pastore , Mauro Pezz`e

Many debugging tools rely on compiler-produced metadata to present a source-language view of program states, such as variable values and source line numbers. While this tends to work for unoptimised programs, current compilers often…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-08 J. Ryan Stinnett , Stephen Kell

Quality and reliability metrics play an important role in the evaluation of the state of a system during the development and testing phases, and serve as tools to optimize the testing process or to define the exit or acceptance criteria of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Matej Klima , Vaclav Rechtberger , Miroslav Bures , Xavier Bellekens , Hanan Hindy , Bestoun S. Ahmed