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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to real-world code generation, where functional correctness alone is insufficient for reliable deployment, developers also expect adherence to explicit requirements for robustness,…

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Recently, a diverse set of decoding and reranking procedures have been shown effective for LLM-based code generation. However, a comprehensive framework that links and experimentally compares these methods is missing. We address this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Haau-Sing Li , Patrick Fernandes , Iryna Gurevych , André F. T. Martins

State-of-the-art code generation frameworks rely on mental simulation, where LLMs internally trace execution to verify correctness. We expose a fundamental limitation: the Mental-Reality Gap -- where models hallucinate execution traces and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Woojin Lee , Jin-Xia Huang

Solving high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) is a critical challenge where modern data-driven solvers often lack reliability and rigorous error guarantees. We introduce Simulation-Calibrated Scientific Machine Learning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Zexi Fan , Yan Sun , Shihao Yang , Yiping Lu

Evaluating whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) genuinely reason about physical dynamics remains challenging. Most existing benchmarks rely on recognition-style protocols such as Visual Question Answering (VQA) and Violation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiarong Liang , Max Ku , Ka-Hei Hui , Ping Nie , Wenhu Chen

Code large language models (Code LLMs) have made significant progress in code generation by translating natural language descriptions into functional code; however, real-world applications often demand stricter adherence to detailed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jian Yang , Wei Zhang , Shukai Liu , Linzheng Chai , Yingshui Tan , Jiaheng Liu , Ge Zhang , Wangchunshu Zhou , Guanglin Niu , Zhoujun Li , Binyuan Hui , Junyang Lin

Large language models (LLMs) can generate code from natural language descriptions. Their performance is typically evaluated using programming benchmarks that simulate real-world tasks. These benchmarks provide specifications in the form of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Shuning Zhang , Yongjoo Park

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) produce behavior through execution on substrates coupling computation with physical processes. However, usual engineering approaches do not treat execution semantics as first-class engineering entities. Formal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Alexandre Muzy

Despite strong performance on code generation tasks, it remains unclear whether large language models (LLMs) genuinely reason about code execution. Existing code reasoning benchmarks primarily evaluate final output correctness under a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jun Gao , Yun Peng , Qian Qiao , Changhai Zhou , Yuhua Zhou , Shiyang Zhang , Shichao Weng , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaoxue Ren

We present a framework for fine-tuning flow-matching generative models to enforce physical constraints and solve inverse problems in scientific systems. Starting from a model trained on low-fidelity or observational data, we apply a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jan Tauberschmidt , Sophie Fellenz , Sebastian J. Vollmer , Andrew B. Duncan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in automated code generation but frequently produce code that fails formal verification, an essential requirement for hardware and safety-critical domains. To overcome…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Manvi Jha , Jiaxin Wan , Deming Chen

Version control relies on commit messages to convey the rationale for code changes, but these messages are often low quality and, more critically, inconsistent with their diffs-known as message-code inconsistency (MCI). MCIs mislead…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Qingyu Zhang , Puzhuo Liu , Peng Di , Chenxiong Qian

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable and widely adopted, benchmarks play a central role in assessing their practical utility. For example, SWE-Bench Verified has emerged as a critical benchmark for evaluating LLMs'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shanchao Liang , Spandan Garg , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are fundamental to modeling physical systems, yet solving them remains a complex challenge. Traditional numerical solvers rely on expert knowledge to implement and are computationally expensive, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shanda Li , Tanya Marwah , Junhong Shen , Weiwei Sun , Andrej Risteski , Yiming Yang , Ameet Talwalkar

Large language model (LLM)-based coding assistants have made substantial progress, yet most systems remain reactive, requiring developers to explicitly formulate their needs. Proactive coding assistants aim to infer latent developer intent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lehui Li , Ruixuan Jia , Guo-Ye Yang , Jia Li

Formally verifying properties of software code has been a highly desirable task, especially with the emergence of LLM-generated code. In the same vein, they provide an interesting avenue for the exploration of formal verification and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Balaji Rao , William Eiers , Carlo Lipizzi

Large language models (LLMs) have shown significant advancements in code generation, but still face challenges on tasks beyond their basic capabilities. Recently, the notion of self-debugging has been proposed to boost the performance of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Xiancai Chen , Zhengwei Tao , Kechi Zhang , Changzhi Zhou , Wanli Gu , Yuanpeng He , Mengdi Zhang , Xunliang Cai , Haiyan Zhao , Zhi Jin

Large language models (LLMs) can often generate functionally correct code, but their ability to produce efficient implementations for performance-critical systems tasks remains limited. Existing code benchmarks mainly emphasize correctness…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Huihao Jing , Wenbin Hu , Haochen Shi , Hanyu Yang , Sirui Zhang , Shaojin Chen , Haoran Li , Yangqiu Song

The design and analysis of systems that combine computational behaviour with physical processes' continuous dynamics - such as movement, velocity, and voltage - is a famous, challenging task. Several theoretical results from programming…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Pedro Mendes , Ricardo Correia , Renato Neves , José Proença

The Instruction Following (IF) ability measures how well Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) understand exactly what users are telling them and whether they are doing it right. Existing multimodal instruction following training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Shengyuan Ding , Shenxi Wu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yuhang Zang , Haodong Duan , Xiaoyi Dong , Pan Zhang , Yuhang Cao , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang