3 papers
cs.SE2025
MAGNET: A Multi-Graph Attentional Network for Code Clone Detection
Zixian Zhang, Takfarinas Saber
Code clone detection is a fundamental task in software engineering that underpins refactoring, debugging, plagiarism detection, and vulnerability analysis. Existing methods often r…
cs.AI2025
AST-Enhanced or AST-Overloaded? The Surprising Impact of Hybrid Graph Representations on Code Clone Detection
Zixian Zhang, Takfarinas Saber
As one of the most detrimental code smells, code clones significantly increase software maintenance costs and heighten vulnerability risks, making their detection a critical challe…
cs.SE2024
Assessing the Code Clone Detection Capability of Large Language Models
Zixian Zhang, Takfarinas Saber
This study aims to assess the performance of two advanced Large Language Models (LLMs), GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, in the task of code clone detection. The evaluation involves testing the…