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20222026
most citedROME: Testing Image Captioning Systems via Recursive Object Melting

3 citations · 5 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CL2026

SpecGuardBench: Can Coding Agents Construct Reliable Validation Harnesses from Natural Language Specifications?

Zhiqing Zhong, Mingyu Chen, Aoyang Fang +5

As coding agents become more capable, tests remain the primary evidence for judging whether their code is correct. Yet passing available tests does not establish that an implementa…

cs.SE2026

AdaT: Adaptive Test Transformations for Black-Box Boundary Testing of Conversational Agents

Liting Lin, Boxi Yu, Qinghua Xu +3

Conversational agents based on large language models (LLMs) must comply with policies. Each condition in a policy draws a boundary between user requests, and the agent must behave…

cs.SE2026

DreamTest: World-Model Surrogates for Search-Based Testing of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents

Qinghua Xu, Guancheng Wang, Boxi Yu +2

Testing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents in cyber-physical systems aims to uncover diverse failures before deployment, but each execution can be expensive. Surrogate-assist…

cs.SE2026

Mining Workflow Graphs for Black-Box Boundary Testing of Conversational LLM Agents

Liting Lin, Boxi Yu, Yuzhong Zhang +3

Conversational LLM agents can cause real-world harm when their internal workflows fail, such as completing a transaction without confirmation. Testing these state-dependent failure…

cs.LG2026

OmniFocus: Query-Guided Modality-Balanced Token Compression for Omni-Modal Large Language Models

Shijie Cao, Qingyu Zhang, Boxi Yu +6

Omni modal large language models (OmniLLMs) have attracted wide attention for their ability to jointly process audio and video, but they generate large token sequences under audio-…

cs.SE2026

BeSpec: Behavior-Level Specification Alignment for Code Generation

Qinghua Xu, Guancheng Wang, Boxi Yu +1

LLMs have made substantial progress on automated code generation from natural-language descriptions of desired behavior (intent). Most existing methods improve generated programs t…

cs.AI2026

OpenRCA 2.0: From Outcome Labels to Causal Process Supervision

Aoyang Fang, Yifan Yang, Jin'ao Shang +7

Root cause analysis (RCA) poses a holistic test of LLM agentic capabilities, such as long-context understanding, multi-step reasoning, and tool use. However, existing datasets suff…

cs.LG2026

TRACE: Trajectory-Based Safety Patch Learning for LLM Post-Training Realignment

Changyue Li, Jiaming He, Youliang Yuan +4

Fine-Tuning-as-a-Service (FTaaS) platforms let users perform supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on customized data, but this pipeline can erode model safety alignment. To recover safety…

cs.CL2026

Combinatorial Synthesis: Scaling Code RLVR via Atomic Decomposition and Recombination

Jiasheng Zheng, Boxi Cao, Boxi Yu +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently emerged as the cornerstone for shaping the remarkable coding abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However,…

cs.CL2026

Retromorphic Testing with Hierarchical Verification for Hallucination Detection in RAG

Boxi Yu, Yuzhong Zhang, Liting Lin +2

Large language models can still hallucinate in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), producing claims that are unsupported by or conflict with the retrieved context. Detecting such…

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.LG2025

CLEANet: Robust and Efficient Anomaly Detection in Contaminated Multivariate Time Series

Songhan Zhang, Yuanhao Lai, Pengfei Zheng +4

Multivariate time series (MTS) anomaly detection is essential for maintaining the reliability of industrial systems, yet real-world deployment is hindered by two critical challenge…

cs.SE2025

UTBoost: Rigorous Evaluation of Coding Agents on SWE-Bench

Boxi Yu, Yuxuan Zhu, Pinjia He +1

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred the development of coding agents for real-world code generation. As a widely used benchmark for evaluating the code generatio…

cs.SE2025

Code Benchmarks Should Prioritize Rigor, Reliability, and Reproducibility

Jialun Cao, Yuk-Kit Chan, Zixuan Ling +12

Code-related benchmarks play a critical role in evaluating large language models (LLMs), yet their quality fundamentally shapes how the community interprets model capabilities. In…

cs.SE2024

An Empirical Study on Package-Level Deprecation in Python Ecosystem

Zhiqing Zhong, Shilin He, Haoxuan Wang +3

Open-source software (OSS) plays a crucial role in modern software development. Utilizing OSS code can greatly accelerate software development, reduce redundancy, and enhance relia…

cs.SE2023

Retromorphic Testing: A New Approach to the Test Oracle Problem

Boxi Yu, Qiuyang Mang, Qingshuo Guo +1

A test oracle serves as a criterion or mechanism to assess the correspondence between software output and the anticipated behavior for a given input set. In automated testing, blac…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Automated Testing and Improvement of Named Entity Recognition Systems

Boxi Yu, Yiyan Hu, Qiuyang Mang +2

Named entity recognition (NER) systems have seen rapid progress in recent years due to the development of deep neural networks. These systems are widely used in various natural lan…

cs.SE2023★ 3 cited

ROME: Testing Image Captioning Systems via Recursive Object Melting

Boxi Yu, Zhiqing Zhong, Jiaqi Li +3

Image captioning (IC) systems aim to generate a text description of the salient objects in an image. In recent years, IC systems have been increasingly integrated into our daily li…

cs.SE2022

Automated Testing of Image Captioning Systems

Boxi Yu, Zhiqing Zhong, Xinran Qin +3

Image captioning (IC) systems, which automatically generate a text description of the salient objects in an image (real or synthetic), have seen great progress over the past few ye…