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5 papers

cs.SE2026

SemaDiff: Identifying Semantic-Changing Commits with Generated Code and Tests

Maha Ayub, Michael Konstantinou, Ahmed Khanfir +2

Distinguishing semantic-preserving commits from changing ones remains an open challenge in software repository mining. While existing approaches detect refactoring commits accurate…

cs.SE20262 cited

Intent-Based Mutation Testing: From Naturally Written Programming Intents to Mutants

Asma Hamidi, Ahmed Khanfir, Mike Papadakis

This paper presents intent-based mutation testing, a testing approach that generates mutations by changing the programming intents that are implemented in the programs under test.…

cs.SE2026

Round-Trip Mutation Testing: Translating Code to Natural Language Intent and back

Asma Hamidi, Cedric Richter, Ahmed Khanfir +1

This paper presents Round-Trip Mutation Testing (RTM), a novel approach that generates mutants from LLM mistranslations between a program code and its intent. Leveraging the genera…

cs.AI2026

Towards a more efficient bias detection in financial language models

Firas Hadj Kacem, Ahmed Khanfir, Mike Papadakis

Bias in financial language models constitutes a major obstacle to their adoption in real-world applications. Detecting such bias is challenging, as it requires identifying inputs w…

q-fin.ST2026

Impact of LLMs news Sentiment Analysis on Stock Price Movement Prediction

Walid Siala, Ahmed Khanfir, Mike Papadakis

This paper addresses stock price movement prediction by leveraging LLM-based news sentiment analysis. Earlier works have largely focused on proposing and assessing sentiment analys…