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Unit testing is a core practice in programming, enabling systematic evaluation of programs produced by human developers or large language models (LLMs). Given the challenges in writing comprehensive unit tests, LLMs have been employed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dongjun Lee , Changho Hwang , Kimin Lee

Modern software is increasingly built by composing APIs, elevating the API contract to a critical role. Inadequate contracts, however, lead to mismatched expectations and failures, creating a pressing need for robust conformance testing.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-23 S M Sadrul Islam Asif , James Chen , Earl T. Barr , Mark Marron

Language Models (LLMs), such as transformer-based neural networks trained on billions of parameters, have become increasingly prevalent in software engineering (SE). These models, trained on extensive datasets that include code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas , Alejandro Velasco , Denys Poshyvanyk

The fast-paced development of machine learning (ML) methods coupled with its increasing adoption in research poses challenges for researchers without extensive training in ML. In neuroscience, for example, ML can help understand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Sami Hamdan , Shammi More , Leonard Sasse , Vera Komeyer , Kaustubh R. Patil , Federico Raimondo

Deep learning frameworks have often focused on either usability or speed, but not both. PyTorch is a machine learning library that shows that these two goals are in fact compatible: it provides an imperative and Pythonic programming style…

Sign language recognition (SLR) is vital for bridging communication gaps between deaf and hearing communities. Vision-based approaches suffer from occlusion, computational costs, and physical constraints. This work presents a comparison of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Meshv Patel , Bikash Baro , Sayan Bayan , Mohendra Roy

Penetration testing, a crucial industrial practice for ensuring system security, has traditionally resisted automation due to the extensive expertise required by human professionals. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Gelei Deng , Yi Liu , Víctor Mayoral-Vilches , Peng Liu , Yuekang Li , Yuan Xu , Tianwei Zhang , Yang Liu , Martin Pinzger , Stefan Rass

magnum.np is a micromagnetic finite-difference library completely based on the tensor library PyTorch. The use of such a high level library leads to a highly maintainable and extensible code base which is the ideal candidate for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Florian Bruckner , Sabri Koraltan , Claas Abert , Dieter Suess

Imposing constraints on machine translation systems presents a challenging issue because these systems are not trained to make use of constraints in generating adequate, fluent translations. In this paper, we leverage the capabilities of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Pengcheng Huang , Yongyu Mu , Yuzhang Wu , Bei Li , Chunyang Xiao , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

In executable task-oriented semantic parsing, the system aims to translate users' utterances in natural language to machine-interpretable programs (API calls) that can be executed according to pre-defined API specifications. With the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Shufan Wang , Sebastien Jean , Sailik Sengupta , James Gung , Nikolaos Pappas , Yi Zhang

The growing complexity of quantum programming frameworks has exposed a critical limitation in existing large language model (LLM)-based code assistants: general-purpose models hallucinate PennyLane-specific gate names, misplace device…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Minghao Shao , Nouhaila Innan , Hariharan Janardhanan , Muhammad Kashif , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

Much of the existing ML research focuses on model performance metrics, leaving limited attention to the long-term sustainability and resource efficiency of ML applications. While high performance is essential, ensuring efficient resource…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Bashar Abdallah , Martyna E. Wojciechowska , Gustavo Santos , Edmand Yu , Maxime Lamothe , Alain Abran , Mohammad Hamdaqa

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate plausible test code. Intuitively they generate this by imitating tests seen in their training data, rather than reasoning about execution semantics. However, such reasoning is important when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Philipp Straubinger , Marvin Kreis , Stephan Lukasczyk , Gordon Fraser

Generative AI is gaining increasing attention in software engineering, where testing remains an indispensable reliability mechanism. According to the widely adopted testing pyramid, unit tests constitute the majority of test cases and are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jakub Walczak , Piotr Tomalak , Artur Laskowski

Significant progress has been made on text generation by pre-trained language models (PLMs), yet distinguishing between human and machine-generated text poses an escalating challenge. This paper offers an in-depth evaluation of three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda

Unit testing is essential for ensuring software reliability and correctness. Classic Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) methods and concolic execution-based approaches for generating unit tests often fail to achieve high coverage due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bei Chu , Yang Feng , Kui Liu , Hange Shi , Zifan Nan , Zhaoqiang Guo , Baowen Xu

TensorX is a Python library for prototyping, design, and deployment of complex neural network models in TensorFlow. A special emphasis is put on ease of use, performance, and API consistency. It aims to make available high-level components…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Davide Nunes , Luis Antunes

We propose a method to guide Large Language Models (LLMs) in generating structured content adhering to specific conventions without fine-tuning. By utilizing coroutine-based content generation constraints through a pre-agreed context-free…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jiaye Wang

Finding errors in machine learning applications requires a thorough exploration of their behavior over data. Existing approaches used by practitioners are often ad-hoc and lack the abstractions needed to scale this process. We present…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Aaditya Naik , Adam Stein , Yinjun Wu , Mayur Naik , Eric Wong

Automated unit test generation aims to improve software quality while reducing the time and effort required for creating tests manually. However, existing techniques primarily generate regression oracles that predicate on the implemented…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Adam Bodicoat , Gunel Jahangirova , Valerio Terragni