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most citedHow Do I Refactor This? An Empirical Study on Refactoring Trends and Topics in Stack Overflow

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cs.SE2025

ChatGPT for Code Refactoring: Analyzing Topics, Interaction, and Effective Prompts

Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Luo Xu, Sofia Martinez +4

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have become widely popular and widely used in various software engineering tasks such as refactoring, testing, code review, and progr…

cs.SE2025

On the Structure and Semantics of Identifier Names Containing Closed Syntactic Category Words

Christian D. Newman, Anthony Peruma, Eman Abdullah AlOmar +8

Identifier names are crucial components of code, serving as primary clues for developers to understand program behavior. This paper investigates the linguistic structure of identif…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

10 quick tips for making your software outlive your job

Richard Littauer, Greg Wilson, Jan Ainali +19

Loss of key personnel has always been a risk for research software projects. Key members of the team may have to step away due to illness or burnout, to care for a family member, f…

cs.CL2025

MoxE: Mixture of xLSTM Experts with Entropy-Aware Routing for Efficient Language Modeling

Abdoul Majid O. Thiombiano, Brahim Hnich, Ali Ben Mrad +1

This paper introduces MoxE, a novel architecture that synergistically combines the Extended Long Short-Term Memory (xLSTM) with the Mixture of Experts (MoE) framework to address cr…

cs.SE2025

SCALAR: A Part-of-speech Tagger for Identifiers

Christian D. Newman, Brandon Scholten, Sophia Testa +10

The paper presents the Source Code Analysis and Lexical Annotation Runtime (SCALAR), a tool specialized for mapping (annotating) source code identifier names to their corresponding…

cs.LG2025

Distil-xLSTM: Learning Attention Mechanisms through Recurrent Structures

Abdoul Majid O. Thiombiano, Brahim Hnich, Ali Ben Mrad +1

The current era of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is dominated by Transformer models. However, novel architectures relying on recurrent mechanisms, such as xLSTM and Mamba, have…