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cs.SE2026

Large Language Models for Code Generation from Multilingual Prompts: A Curated Benchmark and a Study on Code Quality

Saima Afrin, Alessandro Midolo, Camilo Escobar-Velásquez +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) perform differently on identical programming tasks when prompted in different natural languages, a phenomenon known as language bias. While this behavi…

cs.SE2026

Quantize with Confidence? An Empirical Study of Quantization for Code Generation

Saima Afrin, Md. Zahidul Haque, Antonio Mastropaolo

The growing adoption of local inference frameworks such as Ollama has made it increasingly common for developers to run large code models on laptops and other resource-constrained…

cs.DC2026

Understanding and Reducing Metadata-Driven Host Overheads in Sampling-Based GNN Training

Yidong Gong, Saima Afrin, Yuchen Ma +3

Modern deep learning workloads increasingly exhibit dynamic, metadata-driven execution, where runtime-generated information determines memory provisioning and kernel launch decisio…

cs.SE2026

Not All Tokens Matter: Data-Centric Optimization for Efficient Code Summarization

Saima Afrin, Zaiyu Cheng, Tushar Sharma +3

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized software engineering automation, particularly in automated code summarization, which enhances program compr…

cs.SE2026

Parameter-Efficient Multi-Task Fine-Tuning in Code-Related Tasks

Md Zahidul Haque, Saima Afrin, Antonio Mastropaolo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven highly effective in automating software engineering tasks, bridging natural language and code semantics to achieve notable results in code…

cs.SE2025

Is Quantization a Deal-breaker? Empirical Insights from Large Code Models

Saima Afrin, Bowen Xu, Antonio Mastropaolo

The growing scale of large language models (LLMs) not only demands extensive computational resources but also raises environmental concerns due to their increasing carbon footprint…

cs.SE2025

A Systematic Literature Review of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Large Code Models

Saima Afrin, Md Zahidul Haque, Antonio Mastropaolo

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) for code-has reshaped Software Engineering (SE) by enabling the automation of tasks such as c…

cs.SE2025

Evaluating the Impact of Post-Training Quantization on Large Language Models for Code Generation

Alessandro Giagnorio, Antonio Mastropaolo, Saima Afrin +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown an impressive capability in code generation. The LLM effectiveness generally increases with its size: The higher the number of LLM's trainab…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Resource-Efficient & Effective Code Summarization

Saima Afrin, Joseph Call, Khai-Nguyen Nguyen +2

Code Language Models (CLMs) have demonstrated high effectiveness in automating software engineering tasks such as bug fixing, code generation, and code documentation. This progress…

cs.LG2024

Single-GPU GNN Systems: Traps and Pitfalls

Yidong Gong, Arnab Tarafder, Saima Afrin +1

The current graph neural network (GNN) systems have established a clear trend of not showing training accuracy results, and directly or indirectly relying on smaller datasets for e…