Query refinement is to enhance the relevance of search results by modifying users' original
queries to refined versions. State-of-the-art query refinement models have been trained on …

Despite decades of efforts put into avoiding or mitigating memory safety errors (which are
errors in handling memory in native programming languages such as C), recent surveys …

Grooming minors for sexual exploitation become an increasingly significant concern in
online conversation platforms. For a safer online experience for minors, machine learning …

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel at tasks requiring joint understanding of visual and
linguistic information. A particularly promising yet under-explored application for these …

Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques typically rely on a given test-suite to guide the
repair process. Apart from the need to provide test oracles, this makes the produced patches …

Retrieval-augmented generation (rag) systems extend the capabilities of generating
responses beyond the pretrained knowledge of large language models by augmenting the …