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cs.SE2026

SCOPE: Leveraging Subgoal Critiques for Code Generation

Yueke Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Zihan Fang +3

Code generation with large language models (LLMs) remains unreliable because generated programs can appear correct while still violating key semantic requirements in the natural la…

cs.SE2026

Constraint-Guided Multi-Agent Decompilation for Executable Binary Recovery

Yifan Zhang, Xiaohan Wang, Yueke Zhang +2

Decompilation -- recovering source code from compiled binaries -- is essential for security analysis, malware reverse engineering, and legacy software maintenance. However, existin…

cs.SE2025

DPO-F+: Aligning Code Repair Feedback with Developers' Preferences

Zihan Fang, Yifan Zhang, Yueke Zhang +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in software engineering tasks, especially code repair. However, developers often struggle to interpret model outputs, limiting ef…

cs.SE2025

CodeGrad: Integrating Multi-Step Verification with Gradient-Based LLM Refinement

Yueke Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Kevin Leach +1

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code generation, they often produce solutions that lack guarantees of correctness, robustness, and e…

cs.SE2025

EyeMulator: Improving Code Language Models by Mimicking Human Visual Attention

Yifan Zhang, Chen Huang, Yueke Zhang +5

Code Language Models (CodeLLMs) learn token importance from data correlations, whereas human developers attend selectively to semantically salient code. We present EyeMulator, a mo…

cs.SE2025★ 2 cited

Enhancing Code LLM Training with Programmer Attention

Yifan Zhang, Chen Huang, Zachary Karas +3

Human attention provides valuable yet underexploited signals for code LLM training, offering a perspective beyond purely machine-driven attention. Despite the complexity and cost o…

cs.SE2025

Optimizing Code Runtime Performance through Context-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Manish Acharya, Yifan Zhang, Kevin Leach +1

Optimizing software performance through automated code refinement offers a promising avenue for enhancing execution speed and efficiency. Despite recent advancements in LLMs, a sig…

cs.SE2024★ 20 cited

EyeTrans: Merging Human and Machine Attention for Neural Code Summarization

Yifan Zhang, Jiliang Li, Zachary Karas +5

Neural code summarization leverages deep learning models to automatically generate brief natural language summaries of code snippets. The development of Transformer models has led…

cs.SE2024★ 15 cited

Do Machines and Humans Focus on Similar Code? Exploring Explainability of Large Language Models in Code Summarization

Jiliang Li, Yifan Zhang, Zachary Karas +3

Recent language models have demonstrated proficiency in summarizing source code. However, as in many other domains of machine learning, language models of code lack sufficient expl…