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20202026
most citedAutomatic source localization and spectra generation from sparse beamforming maps

13 citations · 13 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 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.CL2026

The GRADIEND Python Package: An End-to-End System for Gradient-Based Feature Learning

Jonathan Drechsel, Steffen Herbold

We present gradiend, an open-source Python package that operationalizes the GRADIEND method for learning feature directions from factual-counterfactual MLM and CLM gradients in lan…

cs.SE2025

Utilizing LLMs for Industrial Process Automation: A Case Study on Modifying RAPID Programs

Salim Fares, Steffen Herbold

How to best use Large Language Models (LLMs) for software engineering is covered in many publications in recent years. However, most of this work focuses on widely-used general pur…

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…

cs.SE2025

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.SD2020★ 13 cited

Automatic source localization and spectra generation from sparse beamforming maps

Armin Goudarzi, Carsten Spehr, Steffen Herbold

Beamforming is an imaging tool for the investigation of aeroacoustic phenomena and results in high dimensional data that is broken down to spectra by integrating spatial Regions Of…