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Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Alan L. McCann

This work proposes an agentic, intent-driven end-to-end (E2E) orchestration framework that integrates intent co-creation with a Test-Driven Quality Assurance paradigm. In this framework, autonomous agents iteratively refine a user's initial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Christos Tranoris , Besiana Agko , Kostis Trantzas , Irene Denazi

In an increasingly complex contractual landscape, the demand for transparency, security, and efficiency has intensified. Blockchain technology, with its decentralized and immutable nature, addresses these challenges by reducing intermediary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Lambard Maxence , Bertelle Cyrille , Duvallet Claude

This paper presents a real-time generative drawing system that interprets and integrates both formal intent - the structural, compositional, and stylistic attributes of a sketch - and contextual intent - the semantic and thematic meaning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jookyung Song , Mookyoung Kang , Nojun Kwak

Generative AI is changing how software is produced and used. In vibe coding, an AI agent builds software by selecting and assembling open-source software (OSS), often without users directly reading documentation, reporting bugs, or…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-23 Miklós Koren , Gábor Békés , Julian Hinz , Aaron Lohmann

Implicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) methods offer a token-efficient alternative to explicit CoT reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs), but a persistent performance gap has limited their adoption. We identify a core latent instability issue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Xilin Wei , Xiaoran Liu , Yuhang Zang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuhang Cao , Jiaqi Wang , Xipeng Qiu , Dahua Lin

Current code generation evaluation measures functional correctness on well-formed inputs that satisfy all input preconditions. This paradigm has a critical limitation: task descriptions often leave these preconditions implicit, while…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Soohan Lim , Joonghyuk Hahn , Hyunwoo Park , Sang-Ki Ko , Yo-Sub Han

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), particularly large language models, have introduced new possibilities for software development practices. In our paper we investigate the emerging Vibe Coding (VC) paradigm…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Kevin Krings , Nino S. Bohn , Thomas Ludwig

Large language models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable prowess in code generation. However, automated code generation is still challenging since it requires a high-level semantic mapping between natural language requirements and codes. Most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yingwei Ma , Yue Yu , Shanshan Li , Yu Jiang , Yong Guo , Yuanliang Zhang , Yutao Xie , Xiangke Liao

Contract-based design is a promising methodology for taming the complexity of developing sophisticated systems. A formal contract distinguishes between assumptions, which are constraints that the designer of a component puts on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ezio Bartocci , Thomas Ferrère , Thomas A. Henzinger , Dejan Nickovic , Ana Oliveira da Costa

Large language model (LLM)-based coding agents achieve impressive results on controlled benchmarks yet routinely produce pull requests that real maintainers reject. The root cause is not functional incorrectness but a lack of organicity:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Mo Li , L. H. Xu , Qitai Tan , Ting Cao , Yunxin Liu

Open-ended learning frames intelligence as emerging from continual interaction with an ever-expanding space of environments. While recent advances have utilized foundation models to programmatically generate diverse environments, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Konstantinos Mitsides , Maxence Faldor , Antoine Cully

This article describes a fully automated, credible autocoding chain for control systems. The framework generates code, along with guarantees of high level functional properties which can be independently verified. It relies on domain…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Timothy Wang , Romain Jobredeaux , Heber Herencia , Pierre-Loic Garoche , Arnaud Dieumegard , Eric Feron , Marc Pantel

Software Engineering (SE) faces simultaneous pressure from AI automation (reducing code production costs) and hardware-energy constraints (amplifying failure costs). We position that SE must redefine itself around human discernment-intent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Karina Kohl , Luigi Carro

Design-by-contract is an important technique for model-based design in which a composite system is specified by a collection of contracts that specify the behavioural assumptions and guarantees of each component. In this paper, we describe…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Simon Foster , Ana Cavalcanti , Samuel Canham , Jim Woodcock , Frank Zeyda

As autonomous coding agents become deeply embedded in software development workflows, their high operational velocity introduces a critical oversight challenge: the accumulating divergence between agentic actions and architectural intent.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Matteo Casserini , Alessandro Facchini , Andrea Ferrario

Code translation is a crucial process in software development and migration projects, enabling interoperability between different programming languages and enhancing software adaptability and thus longevity. Traditional automated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shreya Saxena , Siva Prasad , Zishan Ahmad , Vishal Vaddina

Recent advancements in Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have significantly advanced text-to-image (T2I) generation, particularly through the integration of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, existing CoT-based T2I methods largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haodong Li , Chunmei Qing , Huanyu Zhang , Dongzhi Jiang , Yihang Zou , Hongbo Peng , Dingming Li , Yuhong Dai , ZePeng Lin , Juanxi Tian , Yi Zhou , Siqi Dai , Jingwei Wu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in code generation, but their adherence to fine-grained user intent with multiple constraints remains a significant challenge. Our empirical analysis reveals two key observations:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zheng Fang , Yihong Dong , Lili Mou , Dongming Jin , Zhi Jin , Ge Li

In the rapidly evolving field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), the deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Register-Transfer Level (RTL) design has emerged as a promising direction. However, silicon-grade correctness remains…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jiale Liu , Taiyu Zhou , Tianqi Jiang