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cs.SE2025

APIDA-Chat: Structured Synthesis of API Search Dialogues to Bootstrap Conversational Agents

Zachary Eberhart, Collin McMillan

Large-language-model assistants are suitable for explaining popular APIs, yet they falter on niche or proprietary libraries because the multi-turn dialogue data needed for fine-tun…

cs.HC2025

NaturalEdit: Code Modification through Direct Interaction with Adaptive Natural Language Representation

Ningzhi Tang, David Meininger, Gelei Xu +4

Code modification requires developers to comprehend code, plan changes, articulate intent, and validate outcomes, making it cognitively demanding. While natural language (NL) code…

cs.SE2025

Exploring Direct Instruction and Summary-Mediated Prompting in LLM-Assisted Code Modification

Ningzhi Tang, Emory Smith, Yu Huang +2

This paper presents a study of using large language models (LLMs) in modifying existing code. While LLMs for generating code have been widely studied, their role in code modificati…

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

Human Attention During Localization of Memory Bugs in C Programs

Emory Michaels, Robert Wallace, Matthew Robison +2

This paper presents a study of human visual attention during localization of memory bugs in C. Human visual attention refers to the mechanical processes by which we selectively pro…

cs.SE2025

AI-Mediated Code Comment Improvement

Maria Dhakal, Chia-Yi Su, Robert Wallace +5

This paper describes an approach to improve code comments along different quality axes by rewriting those comments with customized Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools. We cond…

cs.SE2025

Do Code LLMs Do Static Analysis?

Chia-Yi Su, Collin McMillan

This paper investigates code LLMs' capability of static analysis during code intelligence tasks such as code summarization and generation. Code LLMs are now household names for the…

cs.SE2025

Which Code Statements Implement Privacy Behaviors in Android Applications?

Chia-Yi Su, Aakash Bansal, Vijayanta Jain +3

A "privacy behavior" in software is an action where the software uses personal information for a service or a feature, such as a website using location to provide content relevant…