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Logs are imperative in the development and maintenance process of many software systems. They record detailed runtime information that allows developers and support engineers to monitor their systems and dissect anomalous behaviors and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Jieming Zhu , Shilin He , Jinyang Liu , Pinjia He , Qi Xie , Zibin Zheng , Michael R. Lyu

Evaluating log summarization systems is challenging due to the lack of high-quality reference summaries and the limitations of existing metrics like ROUGE and BLEU, which depend on surface-level lexical overlap. We introduce REFLEX, a…

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Code documentation can, if written precisely, help developers better understand the code they accompany. However, unlike code, code documentation cannot be automatically verified via execution, potentially leading to inconsistencies between…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation evolve rapidly through fine-tuning, merging, or new model releases. However, such updates can introduce regressions, not only in correctness but also in code quality and performance. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Altaf Allah Abbassi , Leuson Da Silva , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in Verilog generation from natural language description. However, ensuring the functional correctness of the generated code remains a significant challenge. This paper introduces a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Ning Wang , Bingkun Yao , Jie Zhou , Yuchen Hu , Xi Wang , Nan Guan , Zhe Jiang

Logs are semi-structured text generated by logging statements in software source code. In recent decades, software logs have become imperative in the reliability assurance mechanism of many software systems because they are often the only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Shilin He , Pinjia He , Zhuangbin Chen , Tianyi Yang , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Large language models for code (i.e., code LLMs) have shown strong code understanding and generation capabilities. To evaluate the capabilities of code LLMs in various aspects, many benchmarks have been proposed (e.g., HumanEval and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Junkai Chen , Zhiyuan Pan , Xing Hu , Zhenhao Li , Ge Li , Xin Xia

Large language models (LLMs) have improved Verilog generation from natural-language specifications, but most pipelines still treat generation as isolated sampling followed by functional checking. This is insufficient for practical RTL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zehua Pei , Hui-Ling Zhen , Yu Zhang , Sinno Jialin Pan , Mingxuan Yuan , Bei Yu

Logging statements are central to debugging, failure diagnosis, and production observability, yet writing them requires developers to decide where to place a logging statement, which API and severity level to use, and what runtime…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Renyi Zhong , Yichen Li , Yulun Wu , Jinxi Kuang , Yintong Huo , Michael R. Lyu

Log parsing transforms log messages into structured formats, serving as the prerequisite step for various log analysis tasks. Although a variety of log parsing approaches have been proposed, their performance on complicated log data remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Zhihan Jiang , Jinyang Liu , Zhuangbin Chen , Yichen Li , Junjie Huang , Yintong Huo , Pinjia He , Jiazhen Gu , Michael R. Lyu

Despite the great advance of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in both instruction dataset building and benchmarking, the independence of training and evaluation makes current MLLMs hard to further improve their capability under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zhiyuan Zhao , Linke Ouyang , Bin Wang , Siyuan Huang , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Jiaqi Wang , Conghui He

Log parsing transforms raw logs into structured templates containing constants and variables. It underpins anomaly detection, failure diagnosis, and other AIOps tasks. Current parsers are mostly reactive and log-centric. They only infer…

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Logging is a practice widely adopted in several phases of the software lifecycle. For example, during software development log statements allow engineers to verify and debug the system by exposing fine-grained information of the running…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Antonio Mastropaolo , Luca Pascarella , Gabriele Bavota

Software logs record system activities, aiding maintainers in identifying the underlying causes for failures and enabling prompt mitigation actions. However, maintainers need to inspect a large volume of daily logs to identify the anomalous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yintong Huo , Cheryl Lee , Yuxin Su , Shiwen Shan , Jinyang Liu , Michael R. Lyu

Code review is a vital but demanding aspect of software development, generating significant interest in automating review comments. Traditional evaluation methods for these comments, primarily based on text similarity, face two major…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Junyi Lu , Xiaojia Li , Zihan Hua , Lei Yu , Shiqi Cheng , Li Yang , Fengjun Zhang , Chun Zuo

Despite being trained on vast amounts of data, most LLMs are unable to reliably generate well-designed UIs. Designer feedback is essential to improving performance on UI generation; however, we find that existing RLHF methods based on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jason Wu , Amanda Swearngin , Arun Krishna Vajjala , Alan Leung , Jeffrey Nichols , Titus Barik

As Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) techniques have evolved, query rewriting has been widely incorporated into the RAG system for downstream tasks like open-domain QA. Many works have attempted to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Shengyu Mao , Yong Jiang , Boli Chen , Xiao Li , Peng Wang , Xinyu Wang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Software developers embed logging statements inside the source code as an imperative duty in modern software development as log files are necessary for tracking down runtime system issues and troubleshooting system management tasks.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Sina Gholamian , Paul A. S. Ward

Deep learning-based recommendation has become a widely adopted technique in various online applications. Typically, a deployed model undergoes frequent re-training to capture users' dynamic behaviors from newly collected interaction logs.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Guohao Cai , Jieming Zhu , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Xiuqiang He , Ruiming Tang , Rui Zhang

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated excellent performance, inspiring researchers to explore their use in automating register transfer level (RTL) code generation and improving hardware design efficiency. However, the…

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