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cs.SE2026
Form, Not Content? A Preregistered, Placebo-Controlled Evaluation of Learned Error-Conditioned Self-Repair Through Prompts and Weights in Frozen Small Code Models
Mehmet Iscan
The paper introduces a placebo‑controlled evaluation framework (PoPE) to test whether frozen small code language models can use error feedback to self‑repair generated code, and re…
cs.SE2026
Falsification, Not Exposure: An Internally Preregistered Placebo-Controlled Decomposition of Self-Repair Feedback in Frozen Small Code Models
Mehmet Iscan
In deployment settings where retraining is infeasible, small frozen code models are routinely asked to repair a failed program after seeing their own failing output, usually treate…