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Different from what happens for most types of software systems, testing video games has largely remained a manual activity performed by human testers. This is mostly due to the continuous and intelligent user interaction video games…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Rosalia Tufano , Simone Scalabrino , Luca Pascarella , Emad Aghajani , Rocco Oliveto , Gabriele Bavota

Deep learning (DL) creates impactful advances following a virtuous recipe: model architecture search, creating large training data sets, and scaling computation. It is widely believed that growing training sets and models should improve…

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms find applications in inventory control, recommender systems, vehicular traffic management, cloud computing and robotics. The real-world complications of many tasks arising in these domains makes them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Sindhu Padakandla

In this paper, we propose a principled deep reinforcement learning (RL) approach that is able to accelerate the convergence rate of general deep neural networks (DNNs). With our approach, a deep RL agent (synonym for optimizer in this work)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Jie Fu

Recent years have seen the rise of Deep Learning (DL) techniques applied to source code. Researchers have exploited DL to automate several development and maintenance tasks, such as writing commit messages, generating comments and detecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Michele Tufano , Jevgenija Pantiuchina , Cody Watson , Gabriele Bavota , Denys Poshyvanyk

Lane change is a crucial vehicle maneuver which needs coordination with surrounding vehicles. Automated lane changing functions built on rule-based models may perform well under pre-defined operating conditions, but they may be prone to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Pin Wang , Ching-Yao Chan , Arnaud de La Fortelle

Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved remarkable success in various fields, including computer vision and natural language processing. However, training an effective DNN model still poses challenges. This paper aims to propose a method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hejie Ying , Mengmeng Song , Yaohong Tang , Shungen Xiao , Zimin Xiao

Deep learning (DL)-based code completion tools have transformed software development by enabling advanced code generation. These tools leverage models trained on vast amounts of code from numerous repositories, capturing general coding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Alessandro Giagnorio , Alberto Martin-Lopez , Gabriele Bavota

Training deep learning models takes an extremely long execution time and consumes large amounts of computing resources. At the same time, recent research proposed systems and compilers that are expected to decrease deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Sean Parker , Sami Alabed , Eiko Yoneki

In this paper, we leverage ideas from model-based control to address the sample efficiency problem of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. Accelerating learning is an active field of RL highly relevant in the context of time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Ibrahim Ahmed , Marcos Quinones-Grueiro , Gautam Biswas

Adapting Deep Learning (DL) techniques to automate non-trivial coding activities, such as code documentation and defect detection, has been intensively studied recently. Learning to predict code changes is one of the popular and essential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Shiyi Qi , Yaoxian Li , Cuiyun Gao , Xiaohong Su , Shuzheng Gao , Zibin Zheng , Chuanyi Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with mathematical reasoning tasks requiring precise, verifiable computation. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) from outcome-based rewards enhances text-based reasoning, understanding how agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xinji Mai , Haotian Xu , Zhong-Zhi Li , Xing W , Weinong Wang , Jian Hu , Yingying Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

This paper formulates hypothesis verification as an RL problem. Specifically, we aim to build an agent that, given a hypothesis about the dynamics of the world, can take actions to generate observations which can help predict whether the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Kenneth Marino , Rob Fergus , Arthur Szlam , Abhinav Gupta

Deep Learning (DL) frameworks are a fundamental component of DL development. Therefore, the detection of DL framework defects is important and challenging. As one of the most widely adopted DL testing techniques, model mutation has recently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yanzhou Mu , Rong Wang , Juan Zhai , Chunrong Fang , Xiang Chen , Zhiyuan Peng , Peiran Yang , Ruixiang Qian , Shaoyu Yang , Zhenyu Chen

Autonomous machine learning agents have revolutionized scientific discovery, yet they remain constrained by a Generate-Execute-Feedback paradigm. Previous approaches suffer from a severe Execution Bottleneck, as hypothesis evaluation relies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jingsheng Zheng , Jintian Zhang , Yujie Luo , Yuren Mao , Yunjun Gao , Lun Du , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Code completion aims at speeding up code writing by predicting the next code token(s) the developer is likely to write. Works in this field focused on improving the accuracy of the generated predictions, with substantial leaps forward made…

The choice of learning rate (LR) functions and policies has evolved from a simple fixed LR to the decaying LR and the cyclic LR, aiming to improve the accuracy and reduce the training time of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). This paper presents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yanzhao Wu , Ling Liu

Code completion aims at speeding up code writing by recommending to developers the next tokens they are likely to type. Deep Learning (DL) models pushed the boundaries of code completion by redefining what these coding assistants can do: We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Matteo Ciniselli , Luca Pascarella , Gabriele Bavota

Most autonomous robotic agents use logic inference to keep themselves to safe and permitted behaviour. Given a set of rules, it is important that the robot is able to establish the consistency between its rules, its perception-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Hongyang Qu , Sandor M. Veres

An important goal of research in Deep Reinforcement Learning in mobile robotics is to train agents capable of solving complex tasks, which require a high level of scene understanding and reasoning from an egocentric perspective. When…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Edward Beeching , Christian Wolf , Jilles Dibangoye , Olivier Simonin