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most citedUsing Consensual Biterms from Text Structures of Requirements and Code to Improve IR-Based Traceability Recovery

21 citations · 32 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.SE2026

OpenCodeReview: Determinism over Non-Determinism for Cost-Effective Agent-Based Code Review

Zhengfeng Li, Lei Zhang, Xianwei Wu +8

LLM-based code review agents promise scalable, always-on review, yet current systems suffer from two intertwined weaknesses: (1) non-determinism--unbounded tool use makes review ou…

cs.SE2026

Improving LLM-Based Go Code Review through Issue-List Generation and Context Augmentation

Kexin Sun, Yucong Guan, Jiaqi Sun +6

LLMs have shown strong potential for automating code review, yet their practical utility depends heavily on the design of generation and context strategies. In this paper, we inves…

cs.CL2026

ConceptRM: The Quest to Mitigate Alert Fatigue through Consensus-Based Purity-Driven Data Cleaning for Reflection Modelling

Yongda Yu, Lei Zhang, Xinxin Guo +9

In many applications involving intelligent agents, the overwhelming volume of alerts (mostly false) generated by the agents may desensitize users and cause them to overlook critica…

cs.SE2026

AACR-Bench: Evaluating Automatic Code Review with Holistic Repository-Level Context

Lei Zhang, Yongda Yu, Minghui Yu +11

High-quality evaluation benchmarks are pivotal for deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in Automated Code Review (ACR). However, existing benchmarks suffer from two critical limi…

cs.SE2025

Fine-Tuning LLMs to Analyze Multiple Dimensions of Code Review: A Maximum Entropy Regulated Long Chain-of-Thought Approach

Yongda Yu, Guohao Shi, Xianwei Wu +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great potential in supporting automated code review due to their impressive capabilities in context understanding and reasoning. However, th…

cs.SE2025

Brevity is the Soul of Wit: Condensing Code Changes to Improve Commit Message Generation

Hongyu Kuang, Ning Zhang, Hui Gao +6

Commit messages are valuable resources for describing why code changes are committed to repositories in version control systems (e.g., Git). They effectively help developers unders…

cs.SE2025

SynthCoder: Anti-pattern identification and model training for FIM mode code completion

Dongjun Yu, Xiao Yan, Zhenrui Li +6

As a leading application of large language models (LLMs) in software engineering, Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM) mode code completion has drawn wide attention. Training such models requi…

cs.SE2025

Does AI Code Review Lead to Code Changes? A Case Study of GitHub Actions

Kexin Sun, Hongyu Kuang, Sebastian Baltes +6

AI-based code review tools automatically review and comment on pull requests to improve code quality. Despite their growing presence, little is known about their actual impact. We…

cs.SE2025

Distilling Desired Comments for Enhanced Code Review with Large Language Models

Yongda Yu, Lei Zhang, Guoping Rong +9

There has been a growing interest in using Large Language Models (LLMs) for code review thanks to their proven proficiency in code comprehension. The primary objective of most revi…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

AUCAD: Automated Construction of Alignment Dataset from Log-Related Issues for Enhancing LLM-based Log Generation

Hao Zhang, Dongjun Yu, Lei Zhang +6

Log statements have become an integral part of modern software systems. Prior research efforts have focused on supporting the decisions of placing log statements, such as where/wha…

cs.SE2024

AVIATE: Exploiting Translation Variants of Artifacts to Improve IR-based Traceability Recovery in Bilingual Software Projects

Kexin Sun, Yiding Ren, Hongyu Kuang +5

Traceability plays a vital role in facilitating various software development activities by establishing the traces between different types of artifacts (e.g., issues and commits in…

cs.SE2024★ 9 cited

TRIAD: Automated Traceability Recovery based on Biterm-enhanced Deduction of Transitive Links among Artifacts

Hui Gao, Hongyu Kuang, Wesley K. G. Assunção +5

Traceability allows stakeholders to extract and comprehend the trace links among software artifacts introduced across the software life cycle, to provide significant support for so…

cs.SE2022★ 21 cited

Using Consensual Biterms from Text Structures of Requirements and Code to Improve IR-Based Traceability Recovery

Hui Gao, Hongyu Kuang, Kexin Sun +6

Traceability approves trace links among software artifacts based on whether two artifacts are related by system functionalities. The traces are valuable for software development, b…

cs.SE2022★ 1 cited

Modeling Review History for Reviewer Recommendation:A Hypergraph Approach

Guoping Rong, Yifan Zhang, Lanxin Yang +3

Modern code review is a critical and indispensable practice in a pull-request development paradigm that prevails in Open Source Software (OSS) development. Finding a suitable revie…

cs.SE2022

An Industrial Experience Report on Retro-inspection

Lanxin Yang, He Zhang, Fuli Zhang +2

To reinforce the quality of code delivery, especially to improve future coding quality, one global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enterprise has institutionalized a…

cs.SE2021

Exploiting the Unique Expression for Improved Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering Text

Kexin Sun, Hui Gao, Hongyu Kuang +4

Sentiment analysis on software engineering (SE) texts has been widely used in the SE research, such as evaluating app reviews or analyzing developers sentiments in commit messages.…