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most citedDo Advanced Language Models Eliminate the Need for Prompt Engineering in Software Engineering?

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cs.AI2026

Compress What You See, Not What You Say: Anchored Context Distillation for Latent-Observation Software Engineering Agents

Zhensheng Zou, Guoqing Wang, Dan Hao

Tool observations dominate the context of software-engineering agents, making long interaction histories costly to maintain. Existing context compression methods can discard inform…

cs.SE2026

DSEffi-Bench: Demystifying Large Language Models' Capability in Efficient Data Science Code Generation

Zhihao Gong, Junzhe Yu, Dong Huang +3

Current data science (DS) code generation benchmarks equate correctness with quality, overlooking execution time differences that span orders of magnitude between correct solutions…

cs.SE2026

CausalRepair: Bridging the Causality Gap in Large Language Model-Based Automated Program Repair via Dual-Slicing

Linhao Wu, Yizhou Chen, Zhen Yang +2

Automated Program Repair (APR) has recently benefited from Large Language Models (LLMs), yet their effectiveness heavily depends on repair context. Existing LLM-based APR methods s…

cs.SE2026

WarmTuner: Program-Specific Warm Starts for Compiler Autotuning via Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning

Tianlu Qiao, Mingxuan Zhu, Zeyu Sun +1

Compilers are fundamental software tools that translate high-level programs into machine code. Modern compilers expose hundreds of optimizations, each turned on or off through an o…

cs.SE2026

GapForge: Directed Compiler Fuzzing via Coverage-Gap Analysis

Mingxuan Zhu, Qingyuan Liang, Junjie Chen +2

Modern compiler codebases (e.g., GCC and LLVM) are large and complex, making comprehensive coverage across diverse code regions highly challenging. Most existing test generation te…

cs.SE2026

DebugRepair: Enhancing LLM-Based Automated Program Repair via Self-Directed Debugging

Linhao Wu, Yifei Pei, Zhen Yang +9

Automated Program Repair (APR) has benefited from the code understanding and generation capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing feedback-based APR methods iterativel…

cs.SE2026★ 1 cited

TestDecision: Sequential Test Suite Generation via Greedy Optimization and Reinforcement Learning

Guoqing Wang, Chengran Yang, Xiaoxuan Zhou +4

With the rapid evolution of LLMs, automated software testing is witnessing a paradigm shift. While proprietary models like GPT-4o demonstrate impressive capabilities, their high de…

cs.SE2026

TRACE: Evaluating Execution Efficiency of LLM-Based Code Translation

Zhihao Gong, Zeyu Sun, Dong Huang +3

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have substantially improved the functional correctness of code translation, the critical dimension of \textit{execution efficiency} remains overl…

cs.SE2026

Search-Induced Issues in Web-Augmented LLM Code Generation: Detecting and Repairing Error-Inducing Pages

Guoqing Wang, Zeyu Sun, Xiaofei Xie +4

Web-augmented large language models (LLMs) offer promising capabilities for automatic code generation. However, integrating live web search exposes models to unreliable or maliciou…

cs.SE2025

TRACE: Evaluating Execution Efficiency of LLM-Based Code Translation

Zhihao Gong, Zeyu Sun, Dong Huang +3

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have substantially improved the functional correctness of code translation, the critical dimension of execution efficiency remains overlooked. We…

cs.SE2025

Automatically Learning a Precise Measurement for Fault Diagnosis Capability of Test Cases

Yifan Zhao, Zeyu Sun, Guoqing Wang +5

Prevalent Fault Localization (FL) techniques rely on tests to localize buggy program elements. Tests could be treated as fuel to further boost FL by providing more debugging inform…

cs.SE2024★ 2 cited

Do Advanced Language Models Eliminate the Need for Prompt Engineering in Software Engineering?

Guoqing Wang, Zeyu Sun, Zhihao Gong +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced software engineering (SE) tasks, with prompt engineering techniques enhancing their performance in code-related areas. Howe…

cs.CR2024

Improving Smart Contract Security with Contrastive Learning-based Vulnerability Detection

Yizhou Chen, Zeyu Sun, Zhihao Gong +1

Currently, smart contract vulnerabilities (SCVs) have emerged as a major factor threatening the transaction security of blockchain. Existing state-of-the-art methods rely on deep l…