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The rapid escalation of applying Machine Learning (ML) in various domains has led to paying more attention to the quality of ML components. There is then a growth of techniques and tools aiming at improving the quality of ML components and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh , Zhen Ming , Jiang

Detecting vulnerabilities is vital for software security, yet deep learning-based vulnerability detectors (DLVD) face a data shortage, which limits their effectiveness. Data augmentation can potentially alleviate the data shortage, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Seyed Shayan Daneshvar , Yu Nong , Xu Yang , Shaowei Wang , Haipeng Cai

Purpose: In the field of vulnerability repair, previous research has leveraged pretrained models and LLM-based prompt engineering, among which LLM-based approaches show better generalizability and achieve the best performance. However, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ruoke Wang , Zongjie Li , Cuiyun Gao , Chaozheng Wang , Yang Xiao , Xuan Wang

Compilers are complex, and significant effort has been expended on testing them. Techniques such as random program generation and differential testing have proved highly effective and have uncovered thousands of bugs in production…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Davide Italiano , Chris Cummins

Monitoring issue tracker submissions is a crucial software maintenance activity. A key goal is the prioritization of high risk, security-related bugs. If such bugs can be recognized early, the risk of propagation to dependent products and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Sogol Masoumzadeh , Yufei Li , Shane McIntosh , Dániel Varró , Lili Wei

Manual development of automatic tests for embedded C software is a strenuous and time-consuming task that does not scale well. With the accelerating pace of software release cycles, verification increasingly becomes the bottleneck in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Maximilian Harnot , Sebastian Komarnicki , Michal Polok , Timo Oksanen

Popular IDEs frequently contain bugs in their refactoring implementations. Ensuring that a transformation preserves a program's behavior is a complex task. Traditional detection methods rely on predefined preconditions for each refactoring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Rohit Gheyi , Marcio Ribeiro , Jonhnanthan Oliveira

Prompt injection and jailbreaking attacks pose persistent security challenges to large language model (LLM)-based systems. We present PromptScreen, an efficient and systematically evaluated defense architecture that mitigates these threats…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Akshaj Prashanth Rao , Advait Singh , Saumya Kumaar Saksena , Dhruv Kumar

Despite decades of research, software bug localization remains challenging due to heterogeneous content and inherent ambiguities in bug reports. Existing methods, such as Information Retrieval (IR)-based approaches, often attempt to match…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Asif Mohammed Samir , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Bug triaging, the task of assigning new issues to developers, is often slow and inconsistent in large projects. We present a lightweight framework that instruction-tuned large language model (LLM) with LoRA adapters and uses…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Kiana Kiashemshaki , Arsham Khosravani , Alireza Hosseinpour , Arshia Akhavan

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have accelerated the development of AI-driven automated program repair (APR) solutions. However, these solutions are typically evaluated using static benchmarks such as Defects4J and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yinghang Ma , Jiho Shin , Leuson Da Silva , Zhen Ming , Jiang , Song Wang , Foutse Khomh , Shin Hwei Tan

Within the realm of software engineering, specialized tasks on code, such as program repair, present unique challenges, necessitating fine-tuning Large language models~(LLMs) to unlock state-of-the-art performance. Fine-tuning approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Boyang Yang , Haoye Tian , Jiadong Ren , Hongyu Zhang , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Claire Le Goues , Shunfu Jin

Large language models (LLMs) are very costly and inefficient to update with new information. To address this limitation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has been proposed as a solution that dynamically incorporates external knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Sezen Perçin , Xin Su , Qutub Sha Syed , Phillip Howard , Aleksei Kuvshinov , Leo Schwinn , Kay-Ulrich Scholl

Bug fixing and code generation have been core research topics in software development for many years. The recent explosive growth in Large Language Models has completely transformed these spaces, putting in reach incredibly powerful tools…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Avinash Anand , Akshit Gupta , Nishchay Yadav , Shaurya Bajaj

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently generate buggy code with complex logic errors that are challenging to diagnose. While existing LLM-based self-repair approaches conduct intensive static semantic analysis or reply on superficial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yunkun Wang , Yue Zhang , Guochang Li , Chen Zhi , Binhua Li , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li , Shuiguang Deng

Large language models are increasingly used to produce runnable software. In practice, security is often addressed through a Detect--Repair--Verify (DRV) loop that detects issues, applies fixes, and verifies the result. This work studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Cheng Cheng

Smart contracts are fundamental pillars of the blockchain, playing a crucial role in facilitating various business transactions. However, these smart contracts are vulnerable to exploitable bugs that can lead to substantial monetary losses.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xingshuang Lin , Qinge Xie , Binbin Zhao , Yuan Tian , Saman Zonouz , Na Ruan , Jiliang Li , Raheem Beyah , Shouling Ji

Duplicate bug report detection (DBRD) is a long-standing challenge in both academia and industry. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed various approaches to detect duplicate bug reports more accurately. With the recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Ting Zhang , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ferdian Thung , David Lo

Crash reports are central to software maintenance, yet many lack the diagnostic detail developers need to debug efficiently. We examine whether large language models can enhance crash reports by adding fault locations, root-cause…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 S M Farah Al Fahim , Md Nakhla Rafi , Zeyang Ma , Dong Jae Kim , Tse-Hsun , Chen

Software auditing is an increasingly critical task in the era of rapid code generation. While LLM-based auditors have demonstrated strong potential, their effectiveness remains limited by misalignment with the highly complex,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jinyao Guo , Chengpeng Wang , Dominic Deluca , Jinjie Liu , Zhuo Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang