3 papers
cs.SE2026
IssueExec: A Test-Driven Approach for Localizing Software Engineering Issues
Jiawei Liu, Yun Lin, Chenyan Liu +5
Issue localization, which identifies code locations requiring modification from issue descriptions, is a critical step in automated software maintenance. Existing approaches predom…
cs.SE2026
XSearch: Explainable Code Search via Concept-to-Code Alignment
Yiming Liu, Ruofan Liu, Yun Lin +7
Semantic code search has been widely adopted in both academia and industry. These approaches embed natural-language queries and code snippets into a shared embedding space and retr…
cs.AI2026
SLASH the Sink: Sharpening Structural Attention Inside LLMs
Yiming Liu, Bin Lu, Xinbing Wang +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) show remarkable semantic understanding but often struggle with structural understanding when processing graph topologies in a serialized format. Existi…