2 papers
cs.SE2026
A Mechanistic Lens on Semantic Conflicts: Using Activation Patching to Understand LLM Behavior
Youssef Abdelsalam, Norman Peitek, Anna-Maria Maurer +2
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in software-engineering tasks processing executable code and non-executable semantic cues such as comments or identifiers. These…
cs.SE2025
How do Humans and LLMs Process Confusing Code?
Youssef Abdelsalam, Norman Peitek, Anna-Maria Maurer +2
Already today, humans and programming assistants based on large language models (LLMs) collaborate in everyday programming tasks. Clearly, a misalignment between how LLMs and progr…