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most citedVulnerability Detection with Code Language Models: How Far Are We?

13 citations · 18 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.SE2026

Do Coding Agents Understand Why Systems Crash---and Why They Don't?

Chenxi Huang, Haonan Wang, Jinghe Zhang +7

Coding agents are increasingly capable of fixing real-world bugs, yet they still struggle with large systems codebases such as the Linux kernel. To understand why, we test how agen…

cs.SE2026

TRIM: Reducing AI-Generated CodeSlop via Agent Trajectory Minimization

Alex Mathai, Shobini Iyer, Aleksandr Nogikh +4

Coding agents are increasingly used to accelerate code generation in many downstream tasks, such as fixing bugs, building applications, and prototyping. However, despite their valu…

cs.SE2026

Outrunning LLM Cutoffs: A Live Kernel Crash Resolution Benchmark for All

Chenxi Huang, Alex Mathai, Feiyang Yu +7

Repairing system crashes discovered by kernel fuzzers like Syzkaller is a critical yet underexplored challenge in software engineering. While recent works have introduced Large Lan…

cs.LG2026

SWE-Spot: Building Small Repo-Experts with Repository-Centric Learning

Jinjun Peng, Magnus Saebo, Tianjun Zhong +6

The deployment of coding agents in privacy-sensitive and resource-constrained environments drives the demand for capable open-weight Small Language Models (SLMs). However, they suf…

cs.SE2025

Understanding Automated Program Repair Agents Through the Lens of Traceability: An Empirical Study

Ira Ceka, Hailie Mitchell, Saurabh Pujar +5

Automated Program Repair (APR) agents leverage large language models (LLMs) to autonomously diagnose and patch software bugs using planning, reasoning, and tools. Although these ag…

cs.SE2025

kAgent: An execution-guided crash resolution agent for the Linux kernel

Alex Mathai, Chenxi Huang, Suwei Ma +7

Fuzzing frameworks like syzkaller have uncovered thousands of Linux kernel crashes, many of which are critical and security-sensitive. However, the ability to rapidly repair these…

cs.SE2025

EditLord: Learning Code Transformation Rules for Code Editing

Weichen Li, Albert Jan, Baishakhi Ray +3

Code editing is a foundational task in software development, where its effectiveness depends on whether it introduces desired code property changes without changing the original co…

cs.SE2025★ 3 cited

CWEval: Outcome-driven Evaluation on Functionality and Security of LLM Code Generation

Jinjun Peng, Leyi Cui, Kele Huang +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly aided developers by generating or assisting in code writing, enhancing productivity across various tasks. While identifying incorrec…

cs.CR2024

Can LLM Prompting Serve as a Proxy for Static Analysis in Vulnerability Detection

Ira Ceka, Feitong Qiao, Anik Dey +3

Despite their remarkable success, large language models (LLMs) have shown limited ability on safety-critical code tasks such as vulnerability detection. Typically, static analysis…

cs.CR2024

Comment on Revisiting Neural Program Smoothing for Fuzzing

Dongdong She, Kexin Pei, Junfeng Yang +2

MLFuzz, a work accepted at ACM FSE 2023, revisits the performance of a machine learning-based fuzzer, NEUZZ. We demonstrate that its main conclusion is entirely wrong due to severa…

cs.SE2024

KGym: A Platform and Dataset to Benchmark Large Language Models on Linux Kernel Crash Resolution

Alex Mathai, Chenxi Huang, Petros Maniatis +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) are consistently improving at increasingly realistic software engineering (SE) tasks. In real-world software stacks, significant SE effort is spent dev…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

SemCoder: Training Code Language Models with Comprehensive Semantics Reasoning

Yangruibo Ding, Jinjun Peng, Marcus J. Min +3

Code Large Language Models (Code LLMs) have excelled at tasks like code completion but often miss deeper semantics such as execution effects and dynamic states. This paper aims to…

cs.SE2024

CYCLE: Learning to Self-Refine the Code Generation

Yangruibo Ding, Marcus J. Min, Gail Kaiser +1

Pre-trained code language models have achieved promising performance in code generation and improved the programming efficiency of human developers. However, their self-refinement…

cs.SE2024★ 13 cited

Vulnerability Detection with Code Language Models: How Far Are We?

Yangruibo Ding, Yanjun Fu, Omniyyah Ibrahim +6

In the context of the rising interest in code language models (code LMs) and vulnerability detection, we study the effectiveness of code LMs for detecting vulnerabilities. Our anal…

cs.LG2023

Beyond Accuracy: Evaluating Self-Consistency of Code Large Language Models with IdentityChain

Marcus J. Min, Yangruibo Ding, Luca Buratti +4

Code Large Language Models (Code LLMs) are being increasingly employed in real-life applications, so evaluating them is critical. While the conventional accuracy evaluates the perf…