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most citedFine-Tuning or Fine-Failing? Debunking Performance Myths in Large Language Models

6 citations · 10 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.SE2026

Who Finishes the Job? A Study of Follow-Up Fixes and Commit Authorship on AI Coding Agent Pull Requests

Wannita Takerngsaksiri, Nhat Duong, Scott Barnett

AI coding agents now author a large share of pull requests (PRs) merged into popular open-source projects. A merged agent PR is usually considered finished work; yet, prior studies…

cs.AI2025

TaskEval: Synthesised Evaluation for Foundation-Model Tasks

Dilani Widanapathiranage, Scott Barnett, Stefanus Kurniawan +1

Hallucinations are a key concern when creating applications that rely on Foundation models (FMs). Understanding where and how these subtle failures occur in an application relies o…

cs.LG2025

The M-factor: A Novel Metric for Evaluating Neural Architecture Search in Resource-Constrained Environments

Srikanth Thudumu, Hy Nguyen, Hung Du +6

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automate the design of deep neural networks. However, existing NAS techniques often focus on maximising accuracy, neglecting model efficien…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

RAGProbe: An Automated Approach for Evaluating RAG Applications

Shangeetha Sivasothy, Scott Barnett, Stefanus Kurniawan +2

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly being used when building Generative AI applications. Evaluating these applications and RAG pipelines is mostly done manually, v…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

Fine-Tuning or Fine-Failing? Debunking Performance Myths in Large Language Models

Scott Barnett, Zac Brannelly, Stefanus Kurniawan +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the unique capability to understand and generate human-like text from input queries. When fine-tuned, these models show enhanced performance on do…

cs.SE2024

Large language models for generating rules, yay or nay?

Shangeetha Sivasothy, Scott Barnett, Rena Logothetis +4

Engineering safety-critical systems such as medical devices and digital health intervention systems is complex, where long-term engagement with subject-matter experts (SMEs) is nee…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

LLMs for Test Input Generation for Semantic Caches

Zafaryab Rasool, Scott Barnett, David Willie +4

Large language models (LLMs) enable state-of-the-art semantic capabilities to be added to software systems such as semantic search of unstructured documents and text generation. Ho…