Large language models for software engineering: A systematic literature review

X Hou, Y Zhao, Y Liu, Z Yang, K Wang, L Li… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly impacted numerous domains, including
Software Engineering (SE). Many recent publications have explored LLMs applied to …

Towards an understanding of large language models in software engineering tasks

Z Zheng, K Ning, Q Zhong, J Chen, W Chen… - Empirical Software …, 2025 - Springer
Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have drawn widespread attention and research
due to their astounding performance in text generation and reasoning tasks. Derivative …

Breaking the silence: the threats of using llms in software engineering

J Sallou, T Durieux, A Panichella - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained considerable traction within the Software
Engineering (SE) community, impacting various SE tasks from code completion to test …

Large language model for vulnerability detection: Emerging results and future directions

X Zhou, T Zhang, D Lo - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE 44th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Previous learning-based vulnerability detection methods relied on either medium-sized pre-
trained models or smaller neural networks from scratch. Recent advancements in Large Pre …

Privacy in large language models: Attacks, defenses and future directions

H Li, Y Chen, J Luo, J Wang, H Peng, Y Kang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced the ability to
effectively tackle various downstream NLP tasks and unify these tasks into generative …

Robustness, security, privacy, explainability, efficiency, and usability of large language models for code

Z Yang, Z Sun, TZ Yue, P Devanbu, D Lo - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.07506, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large language models for code (LLM4Code), which demonstrate strong performance (eg,
high accuracy) in processing source code, have significantly transformed software …

A survey on large language models for software engineering

Q Zhang, C Fang, Y **e, Y Zhang, Y Yang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Software Engineering (SE) is the systematic design, development, maintenance, and
management of software applications underpinning the digital infrastructure of our modern …

Stealthy backdoor attack for code models

Z Yang, B Xu, JM Zhang, HJ Kang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Code models, such as CodeBERT and CodeT5, offer general-purpose representations of
code and play a vital role in supporting downstream automated software engineering tasks …

Contrabert: Enhancing code pre-trained models via contrastive learning

S Liu, B Wu, X **e, G Meng, Y Liu - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large-scale pre-trained models such as CodeBERT, GraphCodeBERT have earned
widespread attention from both academia and industry. Attributed to the superior ability in …

Codeattack: Code-based adversarial attacks for pre-trained programming language models

A Jha, CK Reddy - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Pre-trained programming language (PL) models (such as CodeT5, CodeBERT,
GraphCodeBERT, etc.,) have the potential to automate software engineering tasks involving …