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most citedMegaVul: A C/C++ Vulnerability Dataset with Comprehensive Code Representation

26 citations · 52 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.SE2026

PracRepair: LLM-Empowered Automated Program Repair Inspired by Human-Like Debugging Practices

Yu Cheng, Zhongxin Liu, Zhenchang Xing +3

As software systems grow in scale and complexity, debugging and repair remain costly and time-consuming. Large language models (LLMs) have advanced automated program repair (APR),…

cs.CV2026

Let the Abyss Stare Back Adaptive Falsification for Autonomous Scientific Discovery

Peiran Li, Fangzhou Lin, Shuo Xing +5

Autonomous scientific discovery is entering a more dangerous regime: once the evaluator is frozen, a sufficiently strong search process can learn to win the exam without learning t…

cs.LG2026

Traversal-as-Policy: Log-Distilled Gated Behavior Trees as Externalized, Verifiable Policies for Safe, Robust, and Efficient Agents

Peiran Li, Jiashuo Sun, Fangzhou Lin +5

Autonomous LLM agents fail because long-horizon policy remains implicit in model weights and transcripts, while safety is retrofitted post hoc. We propose Traversal-as-Policy: dist…

cs.SE2026★ 1 cited

SolAgent: A Specialized Multi-Agent Framework for Solidity Code Generation

Wei Chen, Zhiyuan Peng, Xin Yin +4

Smart contracts are the backbone of the decentralized web, yet ensuring their functional correctness and security remains a critical challenge. While Large Language Models (LLMs) h…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Navigating the Labyrinth: Path-Sensitive Unit Test Generation with Large Language Models

Dianshu Liao, Xin Yin, Shidong Pan +3

Unit testing is essential for software quality assurance, yet writing and maintaining tests remains time-consuming and error-prone. To address this challenge, researchers have prop…

cs.CL2025

Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4

NVIDIA, Felix Abecassis, Anjulie Agrusa +87

Large Language Models (LLMs) today are powerful problem solvers across many domains, and they continue to get stronger as they scale in model size, training set size, and training…

cs.SE2025

RepoTransAgent: Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Repository-Aware Code Translation

Ziqi Guan, Xin Yin, Zhiyuan Peng +1

Repository-aware code translation is critical for modernizing legacy systems, enhancing maintainability, and enabling interoperability across diverse programming languages. While r…

cs.SE2025

Detecting LLM-generated Code with Subtle Modification by Adversarial Training

Xin Yin, Xinrui Li, Chao Ni +2

With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), their powerful code-generation capabilities have been widely applied in tasks like code completion and automated develop…

cs.SE2025

Learning to Align Human Code Preferences

Xin Yin, Chao Ni, Xiaohu Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in automating software development tasks. While recent advances leverage Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Direct…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

A Preference-Driven Methodology for High-Quality Solidity Code Generation

Zhiyuan Peng, Xin Yin, Chenhao Ying +2

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in generating functionally correct Solidity code, they continue to face critical challenges in producing ga…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Enhancing LLM's Ability to Generate More Repository-Aware Unit Tests Through Precise Contextual Information Injection

Xin Yin, Chao Ni, Xinrui Li +3

Though many learning-based approaches have been proposed for unit test generation and achieved remarkable performance, they still have limitations in relying on task-specific datas…

cs.SE2024

What You See Is What You Get: Attention-based Self-guided Automatic Unit Test Generation

Xin Yin, Chao Ni, Xiaodan Xu +1

Software defects heavily affect software's functionalities and may cause huge losses. Recently, many AI-based approaches have been proposed to detect defects, which can be divided…

cs.SE2024

Distinguishing LLM-generated from Human-written Code by Contrastive Learning

Xiaodan Xu, Chao Ni, Xinrong Guo +4

Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT released by OpenAI, have attracted significant attention from both industry and academia due to their demonstrated ability to generate…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Learning-based Models for Vulnerability Detection: An Extensive Study

Chao Ni, Liyu Shen, Xiaodan Xu +2

Though many deep learning-based models have made great progress in vulnerability detection, we have no good understanding of these models, which limits the further advancement of m…

cs.SE2024

Improving the Ability of Pre-trained Language Model by Imparting Large Language Model's Experience

Xin Yin, Chao Ni, Xiaodan Xu +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) and pre-trained Language Models (LMs) have achieved impressive success on many software engineering tasks (e.g., code completion and code generation).…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

ThinkRepair: Self-Directed Automated Program Repair

Xin Yin, Chao Ni, Shaohua Wang +3

Though many approaches have been proposed for Automated Program Repair (APR) and indeed achieved remarkable performance, they still have limitations in fixing bugs that require ana…

cs.SE2024★ 4 cited

Rectifier: Code Translation with Corrector via LLMs

Xin Yin, Chao Ni, Tien N. Nguyen +2

Software migration is garnering increasing attention with the evolution of software and society. Early studies mainly relied on handcrafted translation rules to translate between t…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

CasModaTest: A Cascaded and Model-agnostic Self-directed Framework for Unit Test Generation

Chao Ni, Xiaoya Wang, Liushan Chen +4

Though many machine learning (ML)-based unit testing generation approaches have been proposed and indeed achieved remarkable performance, they still have several limitations in eff…

cs.CR2024★ 26 cited

MegaVul: A C/C++ Vulnerability Dataset with Comprehensive Code Representation

Chao Ni, Liyu Shen, Xiaohu Yang +2

We constructed a newly large-scale and comprehensive C/C++ vulnerability dataset named MegaVul by crawling the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database and CVE-related o…

cs.SE2024

Natural Is The Best: Model-Agnostic Code Simplification for Pre-trained Large Language Models

Yan Wang, Xiaoning Li, Tien Nguyen +3

Pre-trained Large Language Models (LLM) have achieved remarkable successes in several domains. However, code-oriented LLMs are heavy in computational complexity, and quadratically…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Multitask-based Evaluation of Open-Source LLM on Software Vulnerability

Xin Yin, Chao Ni, Shaohua Wang

This paper proposes a pipeline for quantitatively evaluating interactive Large Language Models (LLMs) using publicly available datasets. We carry out an extensive technical evaluat…

cs.CL2023★ 14 cited

Exploring ChatGPT's Ability to Rank Content: A Preliminary Study on Consistency with Human Preferences

Yunjie Ji, Yan Gong, Yiping Peng +5

As a natural language assistant, ChatGPT is capable of performing various tasks, including but not limited to article generation, code completion, and data analysis. Furthermore, C…