Natural language generation and understanding of big code for AI-assisted programming: A review

MF Wong, S Guo, CN Hang, SW Ho, CW Tan - Entropy, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature concerning the utilization of
Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, with a particular focus on transformer …

Deep learning-based software engineering: progress, challenges, and opportunities

X Chen, X Hu, Y Huang, H Jiang, W Ji, Y Jiang… - Science China …, 2025 - Springer
Researchers have recently achieved significant advances in deep learning techniques,
which in turn has substantially advanced other research disciplines, such as natural …

Exploring parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques for code generation with large language models

M Weyssow, X Zhou, K Kim, D Lo… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities to generate accurate
code snippets given natural language intents in a zero-shot manner, ie, without the need for …

[HTML][HTML] Who evaluates the evaluators? On automatic metrics for assessing AI-based offensive code generators

P Liguori, C Improta, R Natella, B Cukic… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
AI-based code generators are an emerging solution for automatically writing programs
starting from descriptions in natural language, by using deep neural networks (Neural …

Chain-of-thought in neural code generation: From and for lightweight language models

G Yang, Y Zhou, X Chen, X Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in code
generation. The integration of Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning can further boost their …

Automatic smart contract comment generation via large language models and in-context learning

J Zhao, X Chen, G Yang, Y Shen - Information and Software Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Context: Designing effective automatic smart contract comment generation approaches can
facilitate developers' comprehension, boosting smart contract development and improving …

Can gpt models be financial analysts? an evaluation of chatgpt and gpt-4 on mock cfa exams

E Callanan, A Mbakwe, A Papadimitriou, Y Pei… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on a wide
range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, often matching or even beating state-of …

Automated question title reformulation by mining modification logs from stack overflow

K Liu, X Chen, C Chen, X **e… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Stack Overflow, developers may not clarify and summarize the critical problems in the
question titles due to a lack of domain knowledge or poor writing skills. Previous studies …

Boosting multi-objective just-in-time software defect prediction by fusing expert metrics and semantic metrics

X Chen, H **a, W Pei, C Ni, K Liu - Journal of Systems and Software, 2023 - Elsevier
Just-in-time software defect prediction (JIT-SDP) aims to predict whether a code commit is
defect-inducing or defect-clean immediately after developers submit their code commits. In …

A syntax-guided multi-task learning approach for Turducken-style code generation

G Yang, Y Zhou, X Chen, X Zhang, Y Xu, T Han… - Empirical Software …, 2023 - Springer
Due to the development of pre-trained language models, automated code generation
techniques have shown great promise in recent years. However, the generated code will not …