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Advancing code reasoning in large language models (LLMs) is fundamentally limited by the scarcity of high-difficulty datasets, especially those with verifiable input-output test cases necessary for rigorous solution validation at scale. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yifei Liu , Li Lyna Zhang , Yi Zhu , Bingcheng Dong , Xudong Zhou , Ning Shang , Fan Yang , Mao Yang

It is crucial for large language models (LLMs) to follow instructions that involve multiple constraints. However, it is an unexplored area to enhance LLMs' ability to follow soft constraints. To bridge the gap, we initially design a…

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Inspired by the great success of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in natural language processing (NLP), DNNs have been increasingly applied in source code analysis and attracted significant attention from the software engineering community. Due…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Zeming Dong , Qiang Hu , Yuejun Guo , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Zhenya Zhang , Yves Le Traon , Jianjun Zhao

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown impressive results on diverse code-related tasks, benefiting from large-scale training and instruction tuning. However, studies reveal that their grasp of fundamental programming concepts,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xiaoning Ren , Qiang Hu , Wei Ma , Yan Li , Yao Zhang , Lingxiao Jiang , Yinxing Xue

Competitive programming poses a significant challenge for Code LLMs. While recent models have shown promise, they heavily rely on finite real-world data, raising concerns about scalability and contamination. In this paper, we investigate a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jie Wu , Haoling Li , Xin Zhang , Jiani Guo , Jane Luo , Steven Liu , Yangyu Huang , Ruihang Chu , Scarlett Li , Yujiu Yang

Code LLMs have emerged as a specialized research field, with remarkable studies dedicated to enhancing model's coding capabilities through fine-tuning on pre-trained models. Previous fine-tuning approaches were typically tailored to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Bingchang Liu , Chaoyu Chen , Cong Liao , Zi Gong , Huan Wang , Zhichao Lei , Ming Liang , Dajun Chen , Min Shen , Hailian Zhou , Hang Yu , Jianguo Li

Software engineering activities frequently involve edits to existing code. However, contemporary code language models (LMs) lack the ability to handle diverse types of code-edit requirements. In this work, we attempt to overcome this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Tushar Aggarwal , Swayam Singh , Abhijeet Awasthi , Aditya Kanade , Nagarajan Natarajan

This paper offers a new perspective on the limits of machine learning: the ceiling on progress is set not by model size or algorithm choice but by the information structure of the task itself. Code generation has progressed more reliably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhimin Zhao

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in code generation tasks. However, there remains a performance gap between open-source and closed-source models. To address this gap, existing approaches typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Weijie Lv , Xuan Xia , Sheng-Jun Huang

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in code generation recently, offering programmers revolutionary assistance in software development. However, due to the auto-regressive nature of LLMs, they are susceptible…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xue Jiang , Yihong Dong , Yongding Tao , Huanyu Liu , Zhi Jin , Wenpin Jiao , Ge Li

Code generation is a latency-sensitive task that demands high timeliness. However, with the growing interest and inherent difficulty in repository-level code generation, most existing code generation studies focus on improving the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Qianhui Zhao , Li Zhang , Fang Liu , Xiaoli Lian , Qiaoyuanhe Meng , Ziqian Jiao , Zetong Zhou , Jia Li , Lin Shi

Recent work demonstrates that, after instruction tuning, Code Large Language Models (Code LLMs) can obtain impressive capabilities to address a wide range of code-related tasks. However, current instruction tuning methods for Code LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zhaojian Yu , Xin Zhang , Ning Shang , Yangyu Huang , Can Xu , Yishujie Zhao , Wenxiang Hu , Qiufeng Yin

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on code generation. Although prior studies enhanced LLMs with prompting techniques and code refinement, they still struggle with complex programming problems due to rigid…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Huan Zhang , Wei Cheng , Yuhan Wu , Wei Hu

Pre-trained language models for code (PLMCs) have gained attention in recent research. These models are pre-trained on large-scale datasets using multi-modal objectives. However, fine-tuning them requires extensive supervision and is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Hung Quoc To , Nghi D. Q. Bui , Jin Guo , Tien N. Nguyen

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong code generation capabilities, yet the runtime performance of generated code is not guaranteed, and there have been few attempts to train LLMs using runtime performance as a reward in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Ryo Mikasa , Shun-ichiro Hayashi , Daichi Mukunoki , Tetsuya Hoshino , Takahiro Katagiri

Data contamination presents a critical barrier preventing widespread industrial adoption of advanced software engineering techniques that leverage code language models (CLMs). This phenomenon occurs when evaluation data inadvertently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jialun Cao , Songqiang Chen , Wuqi Zhang , Hau Ching Lo , Shing-Chi Cheung

Repository-level code completion remains a challenging task for existing code large language models (code LLMs) due to their limited understanding of repository-specific context and domain knowledge. While retrieval-augmented generation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Tianyue Jiang , Yanli Wang , Yanlin Wang , Daya Guo , Ensheng Shi , Yuchi Ma , Jiachi Chen , Zibin Zheng

Benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) have predominantly assessed short-horizon, localized reasoning. Existing long-horizon suites (e.g. SWE-bench) rely on manually curated issues, so expanding or tuning difficulty demands expensive…

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Reproducing buggy code is the first and crucially important step in issue resolving, as it aids in identifying the underlying problems and validating that generated patches resolve the problem. While numerous approaches have been proposed…

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