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The significant advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in their widespread adoption across various tasks within Software Engineering (SE), including vulnerability detection and repair. Numerous studies have investigated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xin Zhou , Sicong Cao , Xiaobing Sun , David Lo

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) is fundamentally reshaping software engineering (SE), driving a paradigm shift in both academic research and industrial practice. While top-tier SE venues continue to show sustained or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Hang Yu , Yuzhou Lai , Li Zhang , Xiaoli Lian , Fang Liu , Yanrui Dong , Ting Zhang , Zhi Jin , David Lo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in software engineering, yet comprehensive benchmarks covering diverse SE activities remain limited. We present a multi-task evaluation of 11 state-of-the-art LLMs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Go Frendi Gunawan , Mukhlis Amien

The increasing adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering has sparked interest in their use for software vulnerability detection. However, the rapid development of this field has resulted in a fragmented research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Sabrina Kaniewski , Fabian Schmidt , Markus Enzweiler , Michael Menth , Tobias Heer

Context. Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in software engineering workflows for tasks including code generation, summarization, repair, and testing. Empirical studies report productivity gains, improved comprehension,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Bruno Claudino Matias , Savio Freire , Juliana Freitas , Felipe Fronchetti , Kostadin Damevski , Rodrigo Spinola

This paper provides a survey of the emerging area of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Software Engineering (SE). It also sets out open research challenges for the application of LLMs to technical problems faced by software engineers. LLMs'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Angela Fan , Beliz Gokkaya , Mark Harman , Mitya Lyubarskiy , Shubho Sengupta , Shin Yoo , Jie M. Zhang

Prompt sensitivity, referring to the phenomenon where paraphrasing (i.e., repeating something written or spoken using different words) leads to significant changes in large language model (LLM) performance, has been widely accepted as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Andong Hua , Kenan Tang , Chenhe Gu , Jindong Gu , Eric Wong , Yao Qin

Large language models (LLMs) are gaining increasing popularity in software engineering (SE) due to their unprecedented performance across various applications. These models are increasingly being utilized for a range of SE tasks, including…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Xing Hu , Feifei Niu , Junkai Chen , Xin Zhou , Junwei Zhang , Junda He , Xin Xia , David Lo

Code-related benchmarks play a critical role in evaluating large language models (LLMs), yet their quality fundamentally shapes how the community interprets model capabilities. In the past few years, awareness of benchmark quality has…

As artificial intelligence advances, large language models (LLMs) are entering qualitative research workflows, yet no reproducible methods exist for integrating them into established approaches like thematic analysis (TA), one of the most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Cristina Martinez Montes , Robert Feldt , Cristina Miguel Martos , Sofia Ouhbi , Shweta Premanandan , Daniel Graziotin

Large Language Models (LLMs) encode substantial factual knowledge, yet measuring and systematizing this knowledge remains challenging. Converting it into structured format, for example through recursive extraction approaches such as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Luca Giordano , Simon Razniewski

Unit testing is a fundamental practice in modern software engineering, with the aim of ensuring the correctness, maintainability, and reliability of individual software components. Very recently, with the advances in Large Language Models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Siqi Gu , Ye Shang , Zhenyu Chen , Liang Xiao

Large Language Models (LLMs) depend on high-quality, domain-specific natural language datasets. This dependency is particularly pronounced in Requirements Engineering (RE), where core activities rely on textual artifacts such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Quim Motger , Carlota Catot , Xavier Franch

Large language models (LLMs) offer significant potential to accelerate systematic literature reviews (SLRs), yet current approaches often rely on brittle, manually crafted prompts that compromise reliability and reproducibility. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Teo Susnjak

The field of deep learning has witnessed significant breakthroughs, spanning various applications, and fundamentally transforming current software capabilities. However, alongside these advancements, there have been increasing concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Nikita Ravi , Abhinav Goel , James C. Davis , George K. Thiruvathukal

Reasoning has emerged as the next major frontier for language models (LMs), with rapid advances from both academic and industrial labs. However, this progress often outpaces methodological rigor, with many evaluations relying on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Andreas Hochlehnert , Hardik Bhatnagar , Vishaal Udandarao , Samuel Albanie , Ameya Prabhu , Matthias Bethge

Replication packages are crucial for enabling transparency, validation, and reuse in software engineering (SE) research. While artifact sharing is now a standard practice and even expected at premier SE venues such as ICSE, the practical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Al Muttakin , Saikat Mondal , Chanchal K. Roy

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has redefined artificial intelligence (AI), pushing the boundaries of AI research and enabling unbounded possibilities for both academia and the industry. However, LLM development faces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hongzhou Rao , Yanjie Zhao , Xinyi Hou , Shenao Wang , Haoyu Wang

Code reproduction is a cornerstone of scientific validity, yet it remains a formidable challenge in computer networking research due to the scarcity of open-source implementations and the complexity of heterogeneous system architectures.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yining Jiang , Yunxin Xu , Wenyun Xu , Yufan Zhu , Tangtang He , Haiying Huang , Letian Zhu , Qingyu Song , Qiang Su , Lizhao You , Lu Tang , Wanjin Feng , Yuchao Zhang , Linghe Kong , Qiao Xiang , Jiwu Shu

Logging plays a central role in ensuring reproducibility, observability, and reliability in machine learning (ML) systems. While logging is generally considered a good engineering practice, poorly designed logging can negatively affect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Patrick Loic Foalem , Leuson Da Silva , Foutse Khomh , Heng Li , Ettore Merlo