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most citedUnderstanding and Characterizing Mock Assertions in Unit Tests

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26 papers

cs.CR2026

"Your Robot Was Trained on a Lie": Collision Mesh Poisoning Attacks on Robotic Manipulation

Gengyang Xu, Dongwei Xiao, Yiteng Peng +6

Learning-enabled robotic manipulation increasingly relies on robot simulators for policy training and evaluation before real-world deployment. Inside a simulator, a 3D asset contai…

cs.CL2026

SWE-Bench ProMax: Benchmarking Agents on Large-Scale Multilingual Code Refactoring

Yuling Shi, Jinghan Xu, Kelin Fu +12

As AI coding agents take on increasingly complex, long-horizon software engineering tasks, existing benchmarks are rapidly saturating and their evaluation quality has come under se…

cs.SE2026

Understanding Agent-Reactive Bugs at the Model-Harness Boundary: An Empirical Study of LLM Agent Issue Reports

Jingyi Chen, Songqiang Chen, Hengcheng Zhu +3

LLM agents span command-line interfaces (e.g., Codex) and agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain), integrating backend LLMs with harness code that parses model outputs, controls agent l…

cs.SE2026

Inside the Skill Market: From Software Engineering Activities to Reusable Agent Skills

Jialun Cao, Xinru Yan, Songqiang Chen +3

Software engineering (abbrev. SE) has continuously evolved through increasingly powerful forms of reuse, from source code and libraries to components and services. Recent advances…

cs.GR2026

Programming-by-Example for Batch-Editing Collision Meshes in 3D Software

Gengyang Xu, Dongwei Xiao, Hengcheng Zhu +4

As 3D software proliferates, software artifacts now extend beyond code and 2D user interfaces to include 3D assets. Among these assets, collision meshes are critical as they define…

cs.CR2026

Cloak and Detonate: Scanner Evasion and Dynamic Detection of Agent Skill Malware

Zimo Ji, Congying Xu, Zongjie Li +4

LLM coding agents increasingly rely on third-party agent skills from public marketplaces, which execute with the agent's privileges and create a software supply-chain attack surfac…

cs.SE2026

Coding Agents Are Guessing: Measuring Action-Boundary Violations in Underspecified DevOps Instructions

Zimo Ji, Zekai Zhang, Congying Xu +4

LLM coding agents are increasingly deployed to act autonomously on real production infrastructure. They execute shell commands, modify repositories, and call operational APIs. Howe…

cs.LG2026

Geometry Conflict: Explaining and Controlling Forgetting in LLM Continual Post-Training

Yuanyi Wang, Yifan Yang, Su Lu +9

Continual post-training aims to extend large language models (LLMs) with new knowledge, skills, and behaviors, yet it remains unclear when sequential updates enable capability tran…

cs.SE2026

LiveFMBench: Unveiling the Power and Limits of Agentic Workflows in Specification Generation

Dong Xu, Jialun Cao, Guozhao Mo +9

Formal specification is essential for rigorous program verification, yet writing correct specifications remains costly and difficult to automate. Although large language models (LL…

gr-qc2026★ 2 cited

GW240925 and GW250207: Astrophysical Calibration of Gravitational-wave Detectors

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1839

GW240925 and GW250207 are two loud gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole coalescences observed with network signal-to-noise ratios and , respectively…

cs.SE2026★ 1 cited

MR-Coupler: Automated Metamorphic Test Generation via Functional Coupling Analysis

Congying Xu, Hengcheng Zhu, Songqiang Chen +3

Metamorphic testing (MT) is a widely recognized technique for alleviating the oracle problem in software testing. However, its adoption is hindered by the difficulty of constructin…

cs.SE2026

Demystifying the Silence of Correctness Bugs in PyTorch Compiler

Meiziniu Li, Dongze Li, Jianmeng Liu +1

Performance optimization of AI infrastructure is key to the fast adoption of large language models (LLMs). The PyTorch compiler (torch.compile), a core optimization tool for deep l…

cs.SE2026

Can Large Language Models Model Programs Formally?

Zhiyong Chen, Jialun Cao, Jiarong Wu +2

In the digital age, ensuring the correctness, safety, and reliability of software through formal verification is paramount, particularly as software increasingly underpins critical…

cs.SE2026

SWE-ABS: Adversarial Benchmark Strengthening Exposes Inflated Success Rates on Test-based Benchmark

Boxi Yu, Yang Cao, Yuzhong Zhang +9

The SWE-Bench Verified leaderboard is approaching saturation, with the top system achieving 78.80%. However, we show that this performance is inflated. Our re-evaluation reveals th…

cs.SE2026

CAM: A Causality-based Analysis Framework for Multi-Agent Code Generation Systems

Zongyi Lyu, Zhenlan Ji, Songqiang Chen +4

Despite the remarkable success that Multi-Agent Code Generation Systems (MACGS) have achieved, the inherent complexity of multi-agent architectures produces substantial volumes of…

cs.SE2025

Multi-Agent Systems for Dataset Adaptation in Software Engineering: Capabilities, Limitations, and Future Directions

Jingyi Chen, Xiaoyan Guo, Songqiang Chen +2

Automating the adaptation of software engineering (SE) research artifacts across datasets is essential for scalability and reproducibility, yet it remains largely unstudied. Recent…

cs.SE2025

Optimization-Aware Test Generation for Deep Learning Compilers

Qingchao Shen, Zan Wang, Haoyang Ma +5

Deep Learning (DL) compilers have been widely utilized to optimize DL models for efficient deployment across various hardware. Due to their vital role in the DL ecosystem, ensuring…

cs.SE2025

LSPFuzz: Hunting Bugs in Language Servers

Hengcheng Zhu, Songqiang Chen, Valerio Terragni +4

The Language Server Protocol (LSP) has revolutionized the integration of code intelligence in modern software development. There are approximately 300 LSP server implementations fo…

cs.SE2025

Understanding and Bridging the Planner-Coder Gap: A Systematic Study on the Robustness of Multi-Agent Systems for Code Generation

Zongyi Lyu, Songqiang Chen, Zhenlan Ji +5

Multi-agent systems (MASs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for automated code generation, demonstrating impressive performance on established benchmarks. Despite their prosper…

cs.SE2025

Can Emulating Semantic Translation Help LLMs with Code Translation? A Study Based on Pseudocode

Songqiang Chen, Congying Xu, Jingyi Chen +3

Although large language models (LLMs) show promising potential in code translation, they still struggle to generate accurate translations using the commonly adopted direct code-to-…

cs.AI2025

Infi-MMR: Curriculum-based Unlocking Multimodal Reasoning via Phased Reinforcement Learning in Multimodal Small Language Models

Zeyu Liu, Yuhang Liu, Guanghao Zhu +9

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated substantial progress in reasoning capabilities, such as DeepSeek-R1, which leverages rule-based reinforcement…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

An Empirical Study of Bugs in Data Visualization Libraries

Weiqi Lu, Yongqiang Tian, Xiaohan Zhong +4

Data visualization (DataViz) libraries play a crucial role in presentation, data analysis, and application development, underscoring the importance of their accuracy in transformin…

cs.CR2025

IP Leakage Attacks Targeting LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Liwen Wang, Wenxuan Wang, Shuai Wang +5

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to the emergence of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) to perform complex tasks through collaboration. However, the intricate n…

cs.SE2025★ 3 cited

Understanding and Characterizing Mock Assertions in Unit Tests

Hengcheng Zhu, Valerio Terragni, Lili Wei +3

Mock assertions provide developers with a powerful means to validate program behaviors that are unobservable to test assertions. Despite their significance, they are rarely conside…