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cs.SE2026

An Empirical Study of Interaction Smells in Multi-Turn Human-LLM Collaborative Code Generation

Binquan Zhang, Li Zhang, Lin Shi +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized code generation, evolving from static tools into dynamic conversational interfaces that facilitate complex, multi-turn collaborativ…

cs.SE2025

Demystifying Errors in LLM Reasoning Traces: An Empirical Study of Code Execution Simulation

Mohammad Abdollahi, Khandaker Rifah Tasnia, Soumit Kanti Saha +3

Understanding a program's runtime reasoning behavior, meaning how intermediate states and control flows lead to final execution results, is essential for reliable code generation,…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Enhancing LLM-Based Code Generation with Complexity Metrics: A Feedback-Driven Approach

Melika Sepidband, Hamed Taherkhani, Song Wang +1

Automatic code generation has gained significant momentum with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4. Although many studies focus on improving the effectiveness…

cs.SE2024

Program Slicing in the Era of Large Language Models

Kimya Khakzad Shahandashti, Mohammad Mahdi Mohajer, Alvine Boaye Belle +2

Program slicing is a critical technique in software engineering, enabling developers to isolate relevant portions of code for tasks such as bug detection, code comprehension, and d…

cs.SE2024

Retrieval-Augmented Test Generation: How Far Are We?

Jiho Shin, Nima Shiri Harzevili, Reem Aleithan +2

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has advanced software engineering tasks but remains underexplored in unit test generation. To bridge this gap, we investigate the efficacy of R…

cs.SE2024

Automated Prompt Engineering for Cost-Effective Code Generation Using Evolutionary Algorithm

Hamed Taherkhani, Melika Sepindband, Hung Viet Pham +2

Large Language Models have seen increasing use in various software development tasks, especially in code generation. The most advanced recent methods attempt to incorporate feedbac…

cs.SE2023★ 24 cited

Prompt Engineering or Fine-Tuning: An Empirical Assessment of LLMs for Code

Jiho Shin, Clark Tang, Tahmineh Mohati +3

The rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have greatly expanded the potential for automated code-related tasks. Two primary methodologies are used in this domain: prom…