3 papers
cs.SE2026
On Behavioral Alignment of Model-Code and Human-Code Understandability via Behavioral Proxies
Xiaokai Rong, Aashish Yadavally, Anh H. N. Nguyen +2
Code understandability is a critical aspect of software quality. Prior research has largely focused on this attribute from a human-centric or code-centric perspective, while it sho…
cs.SE2026
Do Machines Struggle Where Humans Do? LLM and Human Comprehension of Obfuscated Code
Jack Le, Anh H. N. Nguyen, Tien N. Nguyen
While code obfuscation impairs human code comprehension, it remains unclear if large language models share these failure modes. Building directly on a recent human study of program…
cs.SE2026
The Effect of Code Obfuscation on Human Program Comprehension
Anh H. N. Nguyen, Jack Le, Ilse Lahnstein Coronado +1
We investigate how code obfuscation influences human understanding of programs through an output-prediction task. To study this effect, we construct multiple levels of obfuscation,…