3 papers
cs.SE2026
Do Machines Struggle Where Humans Do? LLM and Human Comprehension of Obfuscated Code
Jack Le, Anh H. N. Nguyen, Tien N. Nguyen
While code obfuscation impairs human code comprehension, it remains unclear if large language models share these failure modes. Building directly on a recent human study of program…
cs.SE2026
The Effect of Code Obfuscation on Human Program Comprehension
Anh H. N. Nguyen, Jack Le, Ilse Lahnstein Coronado +1
We investigate how code obfuscation influences human understanding of programs through an output-prediction task. To study this effect, we construct multiple levels of obfuscation,…
cs.SE2026
LEANCODE: Understanding Models Better for Code Simplification of Pre-trained Large Language Models
Yan Wang, Ling Ding, Tien N Nguyen +2
Large Language Models for code often entail significant computational complexity, which grows significantly with the length of the input code sequence. We propose LeanCode for code…