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Performance regression testing is essential in large-scale continuous-integration (CI) systems, yet executing full performance suites for every commit is prohibitively expensive. Prior work on performance regression prediction and batch…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ali Sayedsalehi , Peter C. Rigby , Gregory Mierzwinski

Software failures can have significant consequences, making learning from failures a critical aspect of software engineering. While software organizations are recommended to conduct postmortems, the effectiveness and adoption of these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Dharun Anandayuvaraj , Tanmay Singla , Zain Hammadeh , Andreas Lund , Alexandra Holloway , James C. Davis

Embedded systems are ubiquitous. However, physical access of users and likewise attackers makes them often threatened by fault attacks: a single fault during the computation of a cryptographic primitive can lead to a total loss of system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Max Hoffmann , Falk Schellenberg , Christof Paar

While Large Language Models (LLMs) show significant potential in hardware engineering, current benchmarks suffer from saturation and limited task diversity, failing to reflect LLMs' performance in real industrial workflows. To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhongkai Yu , Chenyang Zhou , Yichen Lin , Hejia Zhang , Haotian Ye , Junxia Cui , Zaifeng Pan , Jishen Zhao , Yufei Ding

In principle, Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline failures provide valuable feedback to developers on code-related errors. In practice, however, pipeline jobs often fail intermittently due to non-deterministic tests, network outages,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Henri Aïdasso , Francis Bordeleau , Ali Tizghadam

Distributed programs are hard to get right because they are required to be open, scalable, long-running, and tolerant to faults. In particular, the recent approaches to distributed software based on (micro-)services where different services…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Ian Cassar , Adrian Francalanza , Claudio Antares Mezzina , Emilio Tuosto

Existing binary corpora typically capture only one or two axes of binary variation: they either provide cross-compiler builds without a temporal axis, or CVE labels for single-build binaries. None combine cross-build diversity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chang Liu , Noah Fleischmann , Nicolò Altamura , Edward Raff , James Holt , Kristopher Micinski

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are widely adopted in software engineering practice. In reality, the CI/CD pipeline execution is not yet reliably continuous because it is often interrupted by Docker build…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mingjie Li , Xiaoying Bai , Minghua Ma , Dan Pei

Software systems generate massive, evolving, semi-structured logs that are central to reliability engineering and AIOps, yet difficult to analyze at scale under drift and limited labels. Recent advances in pretrained Transformer models and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zeyang Ma , Jinqiu Yang , Tse-Hsun Chen

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly being used when building Generative AI applications. Evaluating these applications and RAG pipelines is mostly done manually, via a trial and error process. Automating evaluation of RAG…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shangeetha Sivasothy , Scott Barnett , Stefanus Kurniawan , Zafaryab Rasool , Rajesh Vasa

The success of quantum circuits in providing reliable outcomes for a given problem depends on the gate count and depth in near-term noisy quantum computers. Quantum circuit compilers that decompose high-level gates to native gates of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Subrata Das , Swaroop Ghosh

Evaluating the quality of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and document reranking systems remains challenging due to the lack of scalable, user-centric, and multi-perspective evaluation tools. We introduce RankArena, a unified platform…

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Progress in computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP) is obscured by the lack of standardized evaluation infrastructure and the reliance on metrics that prioritize topological completion over chemical validity. We introduce RetroCast, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Anton Morgunov , Victor S. Batista

In cable driven parallel robots (CDPRs), a single cable malfunction usually induces complete failure of the entire robot. However, the lost static workspace (due to failure) can often be recovered through reconfiguration of the cable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Adhiti Raman , Ian Walker , Venkat Krovi , Matthias Schmid

OneAPI is an open standard that supports cross-architecture software development with minimal effort from developers. It brings DPC++ and C++ compilers which need to be thoroughly tested to verify their correctness, reliability, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Rana Elnaggar , Brian Delgado , Jason M. Fung

EMFI has become a popular fault injection (FI) technique due to its ability to inject faults precisely considering timing and location. Recently, ARM, RISC-V, and even x86 processing units in different packages were shown to be vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Niclas Kühnapfel , Robert Buhren , Hans Niklas Jacob , Thilo Krachenfels , Christian Werling , Jean-Pierre Seifert

Software ecosystems like Maven Central play a crucial role in modern software supply chains by providing repositories for libraries and build plugins. However, the separation between binaries and their corresponding source code in Maven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Behnaz Hassanshahi , Trong Nhan Mai , Benjamin Selwyn Smith , Nicholas Allen

GitHub Marketplace is expanding by approximately 41% annually, with new tools; however, many additions replicate existing functionality. We study this phenomenon in the platform's largest segment, Continuous Integration (CI), by linking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Elmira Onagh , Maleknaz Nayebi

Software engineering agents are increasingly deployed in evaluable engineering environments, yet post-failure recovery remains costly, manual, and ad hoc. Existing systems expose traces or generate follow-up feedback, but they do not…

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