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most citedAccuracy Can Lie: On the Impact of Surrogate Model in Configuration Tuning

15 citations · 15 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.SE2026

Human-Machine Co-Boosted Bug Report Identification with Mutualistic Neural Active Learning

Guoming Long, Shihai Wang, Hui Fang +1

Bug reports, encompassing a wide range of bug types, are crucial for maintaining software quality. However, the increasing complexity and volume of bug reports pose a significant c…

cs.SE2025

Causally Perturbed Fairness Testing

Chengwen Du, Tao Chen

To mitigate unfair and unethical discrimination over sensitive features (e.g., gender, age, or race), fairness testing plays an integral role in engineering systems that leverage A…

cs.SE2025

Dually Hierarchical Drift Adaptation for Online Configuration Performance Learning

Zezhen Xiang, Jingzhi Gong, Tao Chen

Modern configurable software systems need to learn models that correlate configuration and performance. However, when the system operates in dynamic environments, the workload vari…

cs.SE2025

Learning Software Bug Reports: A Systematic Literature Review

Guoming Long, Jingzhi Gong, Hui Fang +1

The recent advancement of artificial intelligence, especially machine learning (ML), has significantly impacted software engineering research, including bug report analysis. ML aim…

cs.SE2025★ 15 cited

Accuracy Can Lie: On the Impact of Surrogate Model in Configuration Tuning

Pengzhou Chen, Jingzhi Gong, Tao Chen

To ease the expensive measurements during configuration tuning, it is natural to build a surrogate model as the replacement of the system, and thereby the configuration performance…

cs.SE2024

Dividable Configuration Performance Learning

Jingzhi Gong, Tao Chen, Rami Bahsoon

Machine/deep learning models have been widely adopted for predicting the configuration performance of software systems. However, a crucial yet unaddressed challenge is how to cater…

cs.SE2024

Contexts Matter: An Empirical Study on Contextual Influence in Fairness Testing for Deep Learning Systems

Chengwen Du, Tao Chen

Background: Fairness testing for deep learning systems has been becoming increasingly important. However, much work assumes perfect context and conditions from the other parts: wel…

cs.SE2024

Deep Configuration Performance Learning: A Systematic Survey and Taxonomy

Jingzhi Gong, Tao Chen

Performance is arguably the most crucial attribute that reflects the quality of a configurable software system. However, given the increasing scale and complexity of modern softwar…

cs.SE2024

Predicting Configuration Performance in Multiple Environments with Sequential Meta-learning

Jingzhi Gong, Tao Chen

Learning and predicting the performance of given software configurations are of high importance to many software engineering activities. While configurable software systems will al…