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Source Code Summarization is the task of writing short, natural language descriptions of source code. The main use for these descriptions is in software documentation e.g. the one-sentence Java method descriptions in JavaDocs. Code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Alexander LeClair , Collin McMillan

A source code summary of a subroutine is a brief description of that subroutine. Summaries underpin a majority of documentation consumed by programmers, such as the method summaries in JavaDocs. Source code summarization is the task of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Alexander LeClair , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

In the past years, software reverse engineering dealt with source code understanding. Nowadays, it is levered to software requirements abstract level, supported by feature model notations, language independent, and simpler than the source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Anas Alhamwieh , Said Ghoul

As Large Language Models (LLMs) have become capable of generating long and descriptive code summaries, accurate and reliable evaluation of factual consistency has become a critical challenge. However, previous evaluation methods are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Suyoung Bae , CheolWon Na , Jaehoon Lee , Yumin Lee , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

The exponential growth of scientific publications has made it increasingly difficult for researchers to stay updated and synthesize knowledge effectively. This paper presents XSum, a modular pipeline for multi-document summarization (MDS)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Pierre Achkar , Tim Gollub , Martin Potthast

Recent advances in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have initiated a new era in repository-level code completion. However, the invariable use of retrieval in existing methods exposes issues in both efficiency and robustness, with a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Di Wu , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Dejiao Zhang , Murali Krishna Ramanathan , Xiaofei Ma

Reverse engineering binaries is required to understand and analyse programs for which the source code is unavailable. Decompilers can transform the largely unreadable binaries into a more readable source code-like representation. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Ali Al-Kaswan , Toufique Ahmed , Maliheh Izadi , Anand Ashok Sawant , Premkumar Devanbu , Arie van Deursen

Despite Retrieval-Augmented Generation improving code completion, traditional retrieval methods struggle with information redundancy and a lack of diversity within limited context windows. To solve this, we propose a resource-optimized…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xiaohan Chen , Zhongying Pan , Quan Feng , Yu Tian , Shuqun Yang , Mengru Wang , Lina Gong , Yuxia Geng , Piji Li , Xiang Chen

Source code summarization is the task of writing natural language descriptions of source code behavior. Code summarization underpins software documentation for programmers. Short descriptions of code help programmers understand the program…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Aakash Bansal , Siyuan Jiang , Sakib Haque , Collin McMillan

Meetings typically involve multiple participants and lengthy conversations, resulting in redundant and trivial content. To overcome these challenges, we propose a two-step framework, Reconstruct before Summarize (RbS), for effective and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Haochen Tan , Han Wu , Wei Shao , Xinyun Zhang , Mingjie Zhan , Zhaohui Hou , Ding Liang , Linqi Song

Source code summarization of a subroutine is the task of writing a short, natural language description of that subroutine. The description usually serves in documentation aimed at programmers, where even brief phrase (e.g. "compresses data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Aakash Bansal , Sakib Haque , Collin McMillan

The success of language models in code assistance has spurred the proposal of repository-level code completion as a means to enhance prediction accuracy, utilizing the context from the entire codebase. However, this amplified context can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Ming Liang , Xiaoheng Xie , Gehao Zhang , Xunjin Zheng , Peng Di , wei jiang , Hongwei Chen , Chengpeng Wang , Gang Fan

Software repositories is one of the sources of data in Empirical Software Engineering, primarily in the Mining Software Repositories field, aimed at extracting knowledge from the dynamics and practice of software projects. With the…

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The problem of software artifact retrieval has the goal to effectively locate software artifacts, such as a piece of source code, in a large code repository. This problem has been traditionally addressed through the textual query. In other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Liang Wu , Hui Xiong , Liang Du , Bo Liu , Guandong Xu , Yong Ge , Yanjie Fu , Yuanchun Zhou , Jianhui Li

The exponential growth of textual data has created a crucial need for tools that assist users in extracting meaningful insights. Traditional document summarization approaches often fail to meet individual user requirements and lack…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Samira Ghodratnama , Amin Beheshti , Mehrdad Zakershahrak

Bug localization in multi-repository microservice architectures is challenging due to the semantic gap between natural language bug reports and code, LLM context limitations, and the need to first identify the correct repository. We propose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Amirkia Rafiei Oskooei , S. Selcan Yukcu , Mehmet Cevheri Bozoglan , Mehmet S. Aktas

Aspect-based summarization aims to generate summaries tailored to specific aspects, addressing the resource constraints and limited generalizability of traditional summarization approaches. Recently, large language models have shown promise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yichao Feng , Shuai Zhao , Yueqiu Li , Luwei Xiao , Xiaobao Wu , Anh Tuan Luu

Despite the huge success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, these models struggle to understand the context present in the repository (e.g., imports, parent classes, files with similar names, etc.),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Disha Shrivastava , Denis Kocetkov , Harm de Vries , Dzmitry Bahdanau , Torsten Scholak

Automated source code refactoring, particularly extract method refactoring, is a crucial and frequently employed technique during software development. Despite its importance and frequent use by practitioners, current automated techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Indranil Palit , Tushar Sharma

Code localization is a fundamental challenge in repository-level software engineering tasks such as bug fixing. While existing methods equip language agents with comprehensive tools/interfaces to fetch information from the repository, they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Boshi Wang , Weijian Xu , Yunsheng Li , Mei Gao , Yujia Xie , Huan Sun , Dongdong Chen