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Publications (7)

cs.SE2026

Abstain and Validate: A Dual-LLM Policy for Reducing Noise in Agentic Program Repair

José Cambronero, Michele Tufano, Sherry Shi +7

Agentic Automated Program Repair (APR) is increasingly tackling complex, repository-level bugs in industry, but ultimately these patches still need to be reviewed by a human before…

cs.SE2025

Agentic Bug Reproduction for Effective Automated Program Repair at Google

Runxiang Cheng, Michele Tufano, Jürgen Cito +5

Bug reports often lack sufficient detail for developers to reproduce and fix the underlying defects. Bug Reproduction Tests (BRTs), tests that fail when the bug is present and pass…

cs.CL2018

A Visual Attention Grounding Neural Model for Multimodal Machine Translation

Mingyang Zhou, Runxiang Cheng, Yong Jae Lee +1

We introduce a novel multimodal machine translation model that utilizes parallel visual and textual information. Our model jointly optimizes the learning of a shared visual-languag…

cs.SE2026

Dynamic Cogeneration of Bug Reproduction Test in Agentic Program Repair

Runxiang Cheng, Michele Tufano, José Cambronero +5

Bug Reproduction Tests (BRTs) have been used in many Automated Program Repair (APR) systems, primarily for validating promising fixes and aiding fix generation. In practice, when d…

cs.SE2025

Towards a Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Reliable Patch Evaluation Using an LLM-as-a-Judge

Sherry Shi, Renyao Wei, Michele Tufano +4

Reliable evaluation is crucial for advancing Automated Program Repair (APR), but prevailing benchmarks rely on execution-based evaluation methods (unit test pass@k), which fail to…

cs.SE2024

Configuration Validation with Large Language Models

Xinyu Lian, Yinfang Chen, Runxiang Cheng +4

Misconfigurations are major causes of software failures. Existing practices rely on developer-written rules or test cases to validate configurations, which are expensive. Machine l…