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most citedDigital Twin-based Anomaly Detection with Curriculum Learning in Cyber-physical Systems

46 citations · 75 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

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

TATG: Tracking-Aware Testing Objective for LLM-based Test Generation

Guancheng Wang, Qinghua Xu, Lionel C. Briand

Complex Java methods remain challenging for automated unit test generation because achieving high coverage and fault detection often requires satisfying branch-specific testing req…

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.SE2026

LLM-based Low-Level Integration Test Generation for Java

Qinghua Xu, Guancheng Wang, Lionel Briand +2

Large language models (LLMs) show promise for automated test generation, but most approaches target unit tests with mocked dependencies. Low-level integration testing instead exerc…

cs.SE2026

Call-Chain-Aware LLM-Based Test Generation for Java Projects

Guancheng Wang, Qinghua Xu, Lionel C. Briand +2

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong potential for generating project-level unit tests. However, existing state-of-the-art approaches primarily rely on execution…

cs.LG2026

Uncertainty-Guided Label Rebalancing for CPS Safety Monitoring

John Ayotunde, Qinghua Xu, Guancheng Wang +1

Safety monitoring is essential for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). However, unsafe events are rare in real-world CPS operations, creating an extreme class imbalance that degrades sa…

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.SE2025★ 1 cited

Mutation-Guided Unit Test Generation with a Large Language Model

Guancheng Wang, Qinghua Xu, Lionel Briand +1

Unit tests play a vital role in uncovering potential faults in software. While tools like EvoSuite focus on maximizing code coverage, recent advances in large language models (LLMs…

cs.SE2025★ 3 cited

Hallucination to Consensus: Multi-Agent LLMs for End-to-End JUnit Test Generation

Qinghua Xu, Guancheng Wang, Lionel Briand +1

Unit testing plays a critical role in ensuring software correctness. However, writing unit tests manually is labor-intensive, especially for strongly typed languages like Java, mot…

cs.SE2024★ 3 cited

LLM meets ML: Data-efficient Anomaly Detection on Unstable Logs

Fatemeh Hadadi, Qinghua Xu, Domenico Bianculli +1

Most log-based anomaly detectors assume logs are stable, though logs are often unstable due to software or environmental changes. Anomaly detection on unstable logs (ULAD) is there…

cs.SE2023

Pretrain, Prompt, and Transfer: Evolving Digital Twins for Time-to-Event Analysis in Cyber-physical Systems

Qinghua Xu, Tao Yue, Shaukat Ali +1

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), e.g., elevator systems and autonomous driving systems, are progressively permeating our everyday lives. To ensure their safety, various analyses need…

cs.LG2023★ 46 cited

Digital Twin-based Anomaly Detection with Curriculum Learning in Cyber-physical Systems

Qinghua Xu, Shaukat Ali, Tao Yue

Anomaly detection is critical to ensure the security of cyber-physical systems (CPS). However, due to the increasing complexity of attacks and CPS themselves, anomaly detection in…

cs.LG2023★ 11 cited

Knowledge Distillation-Empowered Digital Twin for Anomaly Detection

Qinghua Xu, Shaukat Ali, Tao Yue +2

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs), like train control and management systems (TCMS), are becoming ubiquitous in critical infrastructures. As safety-critical systems, ensuring their dep…

cs.LG2023★ 11 cited

EvoCLINICAL: Evolving Cyber-Cyber Digital Twin with Active Transfer Learning for Automated Cancer Registry System

Chengjie Lu, Qinghua Xu, Tao Yue +3

The Cancer Registry of Norway (CRN) collects information on cancer patients by receiving cancer messages from different medical entities (e.g., medical labs, and hospitals) in Norw…