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Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly employed to automate complex software engineering tasks, such as program repair and issue resolution. These agents operate by autonomously generating natural language thoughts,…

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Process mining provides powerful insights into organizational workflows, but extracting these insights typically requires expertise in specialized query languages and data science tools. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer the potential to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Anton Antonov , Humam Kourani , Alessandro Berti , Gyunam Park , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Deductive verification provides strong correctness guarantees for code by extracting verification conditions (VCs) and writing formal proofs for them. The expertise-intensive task of VC proving is the main bottleneck in this process, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Huan Zhao , Haoxin Tu , Zhengyao Liu , Martin Rinard , Abhik Roychoudhury

Jailbreak attacks reveal critical vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) by causing them to generate harmful or unethical content. Evaluating these threats is particularly challenging due to the evolving nature of LLMs and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Peiyan Zhang , Haibo Jin , Liying Kang , Haohan Wang

Recent work in automated program repair (APR) proposes the use of reasoning and patch validation feedback to reduce the semantic gap between the LLMs and the code under analysis. The idea has been shown to perform well for general APR, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ummay Kulsum , Haotian Zhu , Bowen Xu , Marcelo d'Amorim

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in code generation, they often struggle with the deep, long-horizon reasoning required for complex software engineering. We attribute this limitation to the nature of…

Deploying large language model (LLM)-driven conversational agents in enterprise settings requires prompts that are simultaneously correct at launch and resilient to the non-deterministic behavioral drift that characterizes production LLM…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Keshava Chaitanya , Jahnavi Gundakaram

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are deployed in complex environments -- such as massive codebases, enterprise databases, and conversational histories -- where the relevant state far exceeds their context windows. To navigate these spaces,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Chinmaya Kausik , Adith Swaminathan , Nathan Kallus

Large Language Models (LLMs) augmented with external tools have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex reasoning tasks. However, existing frameworks rely heavily on natural language reasoning to determine when tools can be invoked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yanming Liu , Xinyue Peng , Jiannan Cao , Xinyi Wang , Songhang Deng , Jintao Chen , Jianwei Yin , Xuhong Zhang

Autonomous agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being utilized in complex software systems. However, reliability remains a significant challenge due to unpredictable failures such as hallucinations, execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Cheonsu Jeong , Younggun Shin

Large language models (LLMs) face challenges in solving complex mathematical problems that require comprehensive capacities to parse the statements, associate domain knowledge, perform compound logical reasoning, and integrate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Haoran Liao , Qinyi Du , Shaohua Hu , Hao He , Yanyan Xu , Jidong Tian , Yaohui Jin

Detecting vulnerabilities is vital for software security, yet deep learning-based vulnerability detectors (DLVD) face a data shortage, which limits their effectiveness. Data augmentation can potentially alleviate the data shortage, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Seyed Shayan Daneshvar , Yu Nong , Xu Yang , Shaowei Wang , Haipeng Cai

Successful defense against dynamically evolving cyber threats requires advanced and sophisticated techniques. This research presents a novel approach to enhance real-time cybersecurity threat detection and response by integrating large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Shuva Paul , Farhad Alemi , Richard Macwan

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming artificial intelligence, evolving into task-oriented systems capable of autonomous planning and execution. One of the primary applications of LLMs is conversational AI systems, which must…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Elad Levi , Ilan Kadar

Diffusion Vision-Language Models (dVLMs), built upon the non-causal foundations of Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs), have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in multimodal tasks by departing from the traditional autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu Pan , Andi Zhang , Yi Wang , Sibei Yang , Wenjie Wang

Automated testing for REST APIs has become essential for ensuring the correctness and reliability of modern web services. While existing approaches primarily focus on detecting server crashes and error codes, they often overlook logical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Ke Zhang , Chenxi Zhang , Chong Wang , Chi Zhang , YaChen Wu , Zhenchang Xing , Yang Liu , Qingshan Li , Xin Peng

Building software that is correct by construction is a long-standing goal in software engineering, as it ensures reliability during design and development rather than after deployment. Formal methods realize this vision by enabling the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongshu Wang , Xinyue Zuo , Yuhan Sun , Qin Li , Yamine Ait Ameur , Jin Song Dong

Entity alignment (EA) aims to identify entities across different knowledge graphs (KGs) that refer to the same real-world object and plays a critical role in knowledge fusion and integration. Traditional EA methods mainly rely on knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yixuan Nan , Xixun Lin , Yanmin Shang , Ge Zhang , Zheng Fang , Fang Fang , Yanan Cao

Large Language Model (LLM) agents face security vulnerabilities spanning AI-specific and traditional software domains, yet current research addresses these separately. This study bridges this gap through comparative evaluation of Function…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Tarek Gasmi , Ramzi Guesmi , Ines Belhadj , Jihene Bennaceur

Large language model (LLM) agents are vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks that propagate through multi-step workflows, tool interactions, and persistent context, making input-output filtering alone insufficient for reliable protection.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hailin Liu , Eugene Ilyushin , Jie Ni , Min Zhu