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5 papers

cs.SE2026

Pre-Training on Software Engineering Texts: Effects on Domain Adaptation and General-Language Understanding

Fabian C. Peña, Steffen Herbold

Generalist and code-focused Language Models (LMs) are increasingly applied to software engineering (SE), yet whether they are optimized for understanding SE textual artifacts (e.g.…

cs.SE2026

Large Language Models Have Unreliable Understanding of Software Engineering Terminology

Huzaifa Ejaz, Fabian C. Peña, Steffen Herbold

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in software engineering (SE), yet there is no systematic study that determines to which degree these LLMs actually understand sta…

cs.SE2026

SELU: A Software Engineering Language Understanding Benchmark

Fabian C. Peña, Steffen Herbold

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code understanding and generation. However, their effectiveness on non-code Software Engineering (SE) task…

cs.SE2025

Augmenting the Generality and Performance of Large Language Models for Software Engineering

Fabian C. Peña

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing software engineering (SE), with special emphasis on code generation and analysis. However, their applications to broader SE practic…

cs.SE2025

Evaluating the Performance and Efficiency of Sentence-BERT for Code Comment Classification

Fabian C. Peña, Steffen Herbold

This work evaluates Sentence-BERT for a multi-label code comment classification task seeking to maximize the classification performance while controlling efficiency constraints dur…