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As AI-based code generation becomes widespread, researchers are investigating the calibration of code LLMs - ensuring their confidence scores faithfully represent the true likelihood of code correctness. To do so, we investigate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Viola Campos , Robin Kuschnereit , Adrian Ulges

Background: The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development has opened new possibilities for code generation. Despite the widespread use of this technology, it remains unclear how well LLMs generate code solutions in terms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Alfred Santa Molison , Marcia Moraes , Glaucia Melo , Fabio Santos , Wesley K. G. Assuncao

Over the past few years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been continuously expanding their real-world applications for source code processing tasks across the software engineering domain, e.g., clone detection, code search, comment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Maryam Vahdat Pour , Zhuo Li , Lei Ma , Hadi Hemmati

Computer programming (coding) is indispensable for researchers across disciplines, yet it remains challenging to learn and time-consuming to carry out. Generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), has the potential to transform…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tonghe Zhuang , Zhicheng Lin

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly exhibit strong reasoning abilities, often attributed to their capacity to generate chain-of-thought-style intermediate reasoning. Recent work suggests that exposure to code can further enhance these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Lukas Twist , Shu Yang , Hanqi Yan , Jingzhi Gong , Di Wang , Helen Yannakoudakis , Jie M. Zhang

The performance of automatic code documentation generation models depends critically on the quality of the training data used for supervision. However, most existing code documentation datasets are constructed through large scale scraping…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Recep Kaan Karaman , Meftun Akarsu

The use of Generative AI (GenAI) tools in software development has raised questions about their impact on productivity, code quality, and developer practices. Prior research presents mixed findings, with objective analyses identifying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mark Looi

Generative artificial intelligence poses new challenges around assessment, increasingly driving introductory programming educators to employ invigilated exams. But exams do not afford more authentic programming experiences that involve…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Suhas Kannam , Yuri Yang , Aarya Dharm , Kevin Lin

The quality of AI-generated output is often attributed to prompting technique, but extensive empirical observation suggests that context completeness may be more strongly associated with output quality. This paper introduces Context…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Elias Calboreanu

The rapid advancements in large language models and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are making their broad application in the high-stakes testing context more likely. Use of generative AI in the scoring of constructed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jodi M. Casabianca , Daniel F. McCaffrey , Matthew S. Johnson , Naim Alper , Vladimir Zubenko

There has been a recent surge of interest in automating software engineering tasks using deep learning. This paper addresses the problem of code generation, where the goal is to generate target code given source code in a different language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Sindhu Tipirneni , Ming Zhu , Chandan K. Reddy

Educators are increasingly concerned about the usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT in programming education, particularly regarding the potential exploitation of imperfections in Artificial Intelligence Generated Content…

Large language models (LLMs) are now an integral part of software development workflows and are reshaping the whole process. Traditional technology stack selection has not caught up. Most of the existing selection methods focus solely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xiaoyu Zhang , Weipeng Jiang , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma , Qingshuang Bao , Chenhao Lin , Chao Shen , Tianlin Li , Yang Liu

As AI-powered code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot become popular, it is crucial to understand software developers' trust in AI tools -- a key factor for tool adoption and responsible usage. However, we know little about how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ruotong Wang , Ruijia Cheng , Denae Ford , Thomas Zimmermann

Recently, high-performing code generation systems based on large language models have surfaced. They are trained on massive corpora containing much more natural text than actual executable computer code. This work shows that current code…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Spyridon Mouselinos , Mateusz Malinowski , Henryk Michalewski

Code vulnerability detection is crucial for ensuring the security and reliability of modern software systems. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities in this domain. However, notable discrepancies in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zhihong Sun , Jia Li , Yao Wan , Chuanyi Li , Hongyu Zhang , Zhi jin , Ge Li , Hong Liu , Chen Lyu , Songlin Hu

Artificial Intelligence (AI) compilers are critical for efficiently deploying AI models across diverse hardware platforms. However, they remain prone to bugs that can compromise both compiler reliability and model correctness. Thus,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qingchao Shen

AI code agents excel at isolated tasks yet struggle with multi-file software engineering requiring architectural understanding. We introduce Theory of Code Space (ToCS), a benchmark that evaluates whether agents can construct, maintain, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Grigory Sapunov

While code large language models have demonstrated remarkable progress in code generation, the generated code often exhibits poor runtime efficiency, limiting its practical application in performance-sensitive scenarios. To address this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yunlong Feng , Yang Xu , Xiao Xu , Binyuan Hui , Junyang Lin

In software development through integrated development environments (IDEs), code completion is one of the most widely used features. Nevertheless, majority of integrated development environments only support completion of methods and APIs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Shao Kun Deng , Shengyu Fu , Neel Sundaresan