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most citedLPR: Large Language Models-Aided Program Reduction

15 citations · 23 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.SE2026

Update from Hell: Can Coding Agents Survive Hidden Breakage in Dependency Upgrades?

Zijian Luo, Runzhi He, Pengfei Gao +6

Modern software systems rely heavily on third-party dependencies, but upgrading those dependencies remains a costly maintenance activity. Dependency upgrades do not always preserve…

cs.SE2026

DebugTracker: Lightweight Process Evidence for Classroom Debugging

Jiatong Liu, Xue Yao, Zehua Zhang +1

Debugging exercises are often assessed from final code and test outcomes, yet these artifacts hide how students reproduced failures, formed hypotheses, inspected evidence, edited c…

cs.SE2026

RepoTrace: Browser-Assisted Evidence Collection for GitHub Research Datasets

Xue Yao, Zehua Zhang, Jiatong Liu +1

Empirical software engineering studies frequently build datasets from GitHub issues and pull requests. In many projects, researchers inspect pages in a browser, copy selected field…

cs.SE2026

Detecting Rendering Bugs in Imperative Data Visualization Libraries via Equivalent Mutations

Weiqi Lu, Yongqiang Tian

Imperative data visualization libraries construct plots through a sequence of stateful API calls that incrementally create and update graphic elements. Rendering bugs in these libr…

cs.SE2026

Semantic-aware and Self-improving Program Reduction via Agentic Large Language Models

Xintong Zhou, Hongxu Xu, Chunhao Liao +3

Reducing bug-triggering programs to their minimal essential form is a fundamental task in debugging language processors such as compilers and interpreters. Existing reduction techn…

cs.SE2026

CrossLangFuzzer: Differential Testing of Cross-Language JVM Compilers

Xiaotian Ma, Qiong Feng, Yongqiang Tian +2

Modern JVM software increasingly integrates multiple programming languages, such as Java, Kotlin, Groovy, and Scala, within a single application. Supporting such interoperability r…

cs.SE2026

DRReduce: Enhancing Syntax-Guided Program Reduction with Dependency Reconstruction

Qiong Feng, Xiaotian Ma, Yongqiang Tian +2

Program reduction is a technique for simplifying large, failure-inducing programs into minimal reproducible test cases. Language-specific tools such as CReduce achieve strong perfo…

cs.CR2026

TEMPLATEFUZZ: Fine-Grained Chat Template Fuzzing for Jailbreaking and Red Teaming LLMs

Qingchao Shen, Zibo Xiao, Lili Huang +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across diverse domains, yet their vulnerability to jailbreak attacks, where adversarial inputs bypass safety mechanisms to el…

cs.PL2025

LPO: Discovering Missed Peephole Optimizations with Large Language Models

Zhenyang Xu, Hongxu Xu, Yongqiang Tian +2

Peephole optimization is an essential class of compiler optimizations that targets small, inefficient instruction sequences within programs. By replacing such suboptimal instructio…

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.SE2025

Unmasking the Genuine Type Inference Capabilities of LLMs for Java Code Snippets

Yiwen Dong, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian +1

Type inference is crucial for reusing online code snippets. Although snippets are prevalently shared on platforms like StackOverflow, they often lack essential type information, su…

cs.SE2024★ 7 cited

WDD: Weighted Delta Debugging

Xintong Zhou, Zhenyang Xu, Mengxiao Zhang +2

Delta Debugging is a widely used family of algorithms (e.g., ddmin and ProbDD) to automatically minimize bug-triggering test inputs, thus to facilitate debugging. It takes a list o…

cs.SE2024

Toward a Better Understanding of Probabilistic Delta Debugging

Mengxiao Zhang, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian +2

Given a list L of elements and a property that L exhibits, ddmin is a well-known test input minimization algorithm designed to automatically eliminate irrelevant elements from L. T…

cs.PL2023★ 15 cited

LPR: Large Language Models-Aided Program Reduction

Mengxiao Zhang, Yongqiang Tian, Zhenyang Xu +3

Program reduction is a prevalent technique to facilitate compilers' debugging by automatically minimizing bug-triggering programs. Existing program reduction techniques are either…