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High Recall Retrieval (HRR), such as eDiscovery and medical systematic review, is a search problem that optimizes the cost of retrieving most relevant documents in a given collection. Iterative approaches, such as iterative relevance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Eugene Yang

Test-based automatic program repair has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. However, the test suites in practice are often too weak to guarantee correctness and existing approaches often generate a large number of incorrect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Yingfei Xiong , Xinyuan Liu , Muhan Zeng , Lu Zhang , Gang Huang

Automated Program Repair (APR) holds the promise of alleviating the burden of debugging and fixing software bugs. Despite this, developers still need to manually inspect each patch to confirm its correctness, which is tedious and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ruixin Wang , Zhongkai Zhao , Le Fang , Nan Jiang , Yiling Lou , Lin Tan , Tianyi Zhang

The problem of phase retrieval has been intriguing researchers for decades due to its appearance in a wide range of applications. The task of a phase retrieval algorithm is typically to recover a signal from linear phase-less measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Naveed Naimipour , Shahin Khobahi , Mojtaba Soltanalian

We propose a path-based approach to program repair for imperative programs. Our repair framework takes as input a faulty program, a logic specification that is refuted, and a hint where the fault may be located. An iterative abstraction…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Heinz Riener , Rüdiger Ehlers , Görschwin Fey

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) encounters efficiency challenges when scaling to massive knowledge bases while preserving contextual relevance. We propose Hash-RAG, a framework that integrates deep hashing techniques with systematic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jinyu Guo , Xunlei Chen , Qiyang Xia , Zhaokun Wang , Jie Ou , Libo Qin , Shunyu Yao , Wenhong Tian

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to extend their existing knowledge by dynamically incorporating external information. However, practical deployment is fundamentally constrained by the LLM's finite…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiarui Guo , Yuemeng Xu , Zongwei Lv , Yangyujia Wang , Xiaolin Wang , Kan Liu , Tao Lan , Lin Qu , Tong Yang

Automated program repair (APR) techniques have achieved conspicuous progress, and are now capable of producing genuinely correct fixes in scenarios that were well beyond their capabilities only a few years ago. Nevertheless, even when an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Shifat Sahariar Bhuiyan , Abhishek Tiwari , Yu Pei , Carlo A. Furia

Debugging takes up a significant portion of developer time. As a result, automated debugging techniques including Fault Localization (FL) and Automated Program Repair (APR) have garnered significant attention due to their potential to aid…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Sungmin Kang , Wonkeun Choi , Shin Yoo

Modern large-scale recommender systems employ multi-stage ranking funnel (Retrieval, Pre-ranking, Ranking) to balance engagement and computational constraints (latency, CPU). However, the initial retrieval stage, often relying on efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Amit Jaspal , Qian Dang , Ajantha Ramineni

Automatic program repair (APR) techniques have the potential to reduce manual efforts in uncovering and repairing program defects during the code review (CR) process. However, the limited accuracy and considerable time costs associated with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Zelin Zhao , Zhaogui Xu , Jialong Zhu , Peng Di , Yuan Yao , Xiaoxing Ma

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential for automated program repair (APR). However, existing LLM-based techniques primarily rely on coarse-grained external feedback (e.g.,test results) to guide iterative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiaolong Kong , Xiaofei Xie , Yiheng Xiong , Yuekun Wang , Jian Wang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems commonly adopt retrieval fusion techniques such as multi-query retrieval and reciprocal rank fusion (RRF) to increase document recall, under the assumption that higher recall leads to better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Luigi Medrano , Arush Verma , Mukul Chhabra

With the advancement of deep learning techniques, the performance of Automatic Program Repair(APR) techniques has reached a new level. Previous deep learning-based APR techniques essentially modified program sentences in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhenyu Yang , Zhen Yang , Zhongxing Yu

Previous research on code intelligence usually trains a deep learning model on a fixed dataset in an offline manner. However, in real-world scenarios, new code repositories emerge incessantly, and the carried new knowledge is beneficial for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Shuzheng Gao , Hongyu Zhang , Cuiyun Gao , Chaozheng Wang

Automated Program Repair (APR) can reduce the time developers spend debugging, allowing them to focus on other aspects of software development. Automatically generated bug patches are typically validated through software testing. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-13 David Williams , Ioakim Avraam , Aldeida Aleti , Matias Martinez , Justyna Petke , Federica Sarro

Automated program repair (APR) attempts to generate correct patches and has drawn wide attention from both academia and industry in the past decades. However, APR is continuously struggling with the patch overfitting issue due to the weak…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Quanjun Zhang , Haichuan Hu , Chunrong Fang , Ye Shang , Tao Zheng , Zhenyu Chen , Yun Yang , Liang Xiao

Despite the immense popularity of the Automated Program Repair (APR) field, the question of patch validation is still open. Most of the present-day approaches follow the so-called Generate-and-Validate approach, where first a candidate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Viktor Csuvik , Dániel Horváth , Márk Lajkó , László Vidács

In this paper, we introduce CoRet, a dense retrieval model designed for code-editing tasks that integrates code semantics, repository structure, and call graph dependencies. The model focuses on retrieving relevant portions of a code…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Fabio Fehr , Prabhu Teja Sivaprasad , Luca Franceschi , Giovanni Zappella

Deep learning models have made significant progress in automatic program repair. However, the black-box nature of these methods has restricted their practical applications. To address this challenge, this paper presents an interpretable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jianzong Wang , Shijing Si , Zhitao Zhu , Xiaoyang Qu , Zhenhou Hong , Jing Xiao