3 papers
cs.CL2026
Pragmatic Reasoning improves LLM Code Generation
Zhuchen Cao, Sven Apel, Adish Singla +1
Pragmatic reasoning helps interlocutors infer intended meaning from ambiguous or underspecified messages by considering shared context and counterfactual alternatives. Similar chal…
cs.SE2026
Fixation-related potentials reveal that confusing program code elicits a late frontal positivity
Annabelle Bergum, Anna-Maria Maurer, Norman Peitek +5
As software pervades more and more areas of our professional and personal lives, there is an ever-increasing need to maintain software and for programmers to efficiently write and…
cs.LG2025
Born a Transformer -- Always a Transformer? On the Effect of Pretraining on Architectural Abilities
Mayank Jobanputra, Yana Veitsman, Yash Sarrof +4
Transformers have theoretical limitations in modeling certain sequence-to-sequence tasks, yet it remains largely unclear if these limitations play a role in large-scale pretrained…