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20222026
most citedEditSum: A Retrieve-and-Edit Framework for Source Code Summarization

59 citations · 145 across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cs.SE2026

Chiseling Out Efficiency: Structured Skeleton Supervision for Efficient Code Generation

Yu Yu, Zhihong Sun, Jia Li +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of generating syntactically correct and functionally complete programs, greatly streamlining software development. However, recent studies…

cs.SE2026

ClarifySTL: An Interactive LLM Agent Framework for STL Transformation through Requirements Clarification

Yue Fang, Zhi Jin, Jie An +3

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a formal language for specifying real-time behaviors of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Automatically transforming natural language requirements into S…

cs.SE2026

Bridging the Gap between User Intent and LLM: A Requirement Alignment Approach for Code Generation

Jia Li, Ruiqi Bai, Yangkang Luo +7

Code generation refers to automatically producing executable programs from user requirements. Recently, researchers have explored approaches to enhance the correctness of generated…

cs.SE2025

A Needle in a Haystack: Intent-driven Reusable Artifacts Recommendation with LLMs

Dongming Jin, Zhi Jin, Xiaohong Chen +6

In open source software development, the reuse of existing artifacts has been widely adopted to avoid redundant implementation work. Reusable artifacts are considered more efficien…

cs.SE2025

A Viable Paradigm of Software Automation: Iterative End-to-End Automated Software Development

Jia Li, Zhi Jin, Huangzhao Zhang +3

Software development automation is a long-term goal in software engineering. With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), more and more researchers are exploring approache…

cs.SE2025

AdapTrack: Constrained Decoding without Distorting LLM's Output Intent

Yongmin Li, Jia Li, Ge Li +1

Language model-based code generation and completion tools have been widely adopted, but they may sometimes produce code that does not meet necessary constraints, such as syntactic…

cs.SE2025

Ensembling Large Language Models for Code Vulnerability Detection: An Empirical Evaluation

Zhihong Sun, Jia Li, Yao Wan +7

Code vulnerability detection is crucial for ensuring the security and reliability of modern software systems. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising capabiliti…

cs.SE2025

A System Model Generation Benchmark from Natural Language Requirements

Dongming Jin, Zhi Jin, Linyu Li +3

System models, a critical artifact in software development, provide a formal abstraction of both the structural and behavioral aspects of software systems, which can facilitate the…

cs.SE2025★ 2 cited

GraphCodeAgent: Dual Graph-Guided LLM Agent for Retrieval-Augmented Repo-Level Code Generation

Jia Li, Xianjie Shi, Kechi Zhang +10

Writing code requires significant time and effort in software development. To automate this process, researchers have made substantial progress for code generation. Recently, large…

cs.CL2025

PROPHET: An Inferable Future Forecasting Benchmark with Causal Intervened Likelihood Estimation

Zhengwei Tao, Pu Wu, Zhi Jin +8

Predicting future events based on news on the Web stands as one of the ultimate aspirations of artificial intelligence. Recent advances in large language model (LLM)-based systems…

cs.SE2025

SEAlign: Alignment Training for Software Engineering Agent

Kechi Zhang, Huangzhao Zhang, Ge Li +4

Recent advances in code generation models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in automating software development tasks, yet these models still struggle in real-world software…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

LONGCODEU: Benchmarking Long-Context Language Models on Long Code Understanding

Jia Li, Xuyuan Guo, Lei Li +7

Current advanced long-context language models offer great potential for real-world software engineering applications. However, progress in this critical domain remains hampered by…

cs.AI2025

FastCoder: Accelerating Repository-level Code Generation via Efficient Retrieval and Verification

Qianhui Zhao, Li Zhang, Fang Liu +6

Code generation is a latency-sensitive task that demands high timeliness. However, with the growing interest and inherent difficulty in repository-level code generation, most exist…

cs.SE2025

Focused-DPO: Enhancing Code Generation Through Focused Preference Optimization on Error-Prone Points

Kechi Zhang, Ge Li, Jia Li +2

Code generation models have shown significant potential for automating programming tasks. However, the challenge of generating accurate and reliable code persists due to the highly…

cs.CL2024

Generating Equivalent Representations of Code By A Self-Reflection Approach

Jia Li, Ge Li, Lecheng Wang +2

Equivalent Representations (ERs) of code are textual representations that preserve the same semantics as the code itself, e.g., natural language comments and pseudocode. ERs play a…

cs.SE2024

Showing LLM-Generated Code Selectively Based on Confidence of LLMs

Jia Li, Yuqi Zhu, Yongmin Li +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities in code generation, but they may generate erroneous programs. Reading a program takes ten times longer than writing it.…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Sifting through the Chaff: On Utilizing Execution Feedback for Ranking the Generated Code Candidates

Zhihong Sun, Yao Wan, Jia Li +4

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, StarCoder, and CodeLlama, are transforming the way developers approach programming by automatically generating code based on given natu…

cs.SE2024

M2CVD: Enhancing Vulnerability Semantic through Multi-Model Collaboration for Code Vulnerability Detection

Ziliang Wang, Ge Li, Jia Li +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have strong capabilities in code comprehension, but fine-tuning costs and semantic alignment issues limit their project-specific optimization; converse…

cs.SE2024

Line-level Semantic Structure Learning for Code Vulnerability Detection

Ziliang Wang, Ge Li, Jia Li +3

Unlike the flow structure of natural languages, programming languages have an inherent rigidity in structure and grammar.However, existing detection methods based on pre-trained mo…

cs.SE2024★ 3 cited

Exploring and Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models in Automated Code Translation

Zhen Yang, Fang Liu, Zhongxing Yu +7

Code translation tools (transpilers) are developed for automatic source-to-source translation. Although learning-based transpilers have shown impressive enhancement against rule-ba…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

A Comprehensive Evaluation on Event Reasoning of Large Language Models

Zhengwei Tao, Zhi Jin, Yifan Zhang +7

Event reasoning is a fundamental ability that underlies many applications. It requires event schema knowledge to perform global reasoning and needs to deal with the diversity of th…

cs.SE2024★ 4 cited

CodeAgent: Enhancing Code Generation with Tool-Integrated Agent Systems for Real-World Repo-level Coding Challenges

Kechi Zhang, Jia Li, Ge Li +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in automated code generation but typically excel only in simpler tasks such as generating standalone code units. Real-world software…

cs.SE2024★ 3 cited

DevEval: Evaluating Code Generation in Practical Software Projects

Jia Li, Ge Li, Yunfei Zhao +14

How to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) in code generation is an open question. Many benchmarks have been proposed but are inconsistent with practical software projects, e.g.,…

cs.SE2023★ 2 cited

ChatCoder: Chat-based Refine Requirement Improves LLMs' Code Generation

Zejun Wang, Jia Li, Ge Li +1

Large language models have shown good performances in generating code to meet human requirements. However, human requirements expressed in natural languages can be vague, incomplet…