Fault localization

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• AutoCodeRover: Autonomous Program Improvement
  8 Apr 2024 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 4 samples · 4 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Recent progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly impacted the development process, where developers can use LLM-based programming assistants to achieve automated coding.
• HyperAgent: Generalist Software Engineering Agents to Solve Coding Tasks at Scale
  9 Sep 2024 2 repositories listed
  Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized software engineering (SE), showcasing remarkable proficiency in various coding tasks.
• TraceFL: Interpretability-Driven Debugging in Federated Learning via Neuron Provenance
  21 Dec 2023 2 repositories listed
  We introduce TraceFL, a fine-grained neuron provenance capturing mechanism that identifies clients responsible for a global model's prediction by tracking the flow of information from individual clients to the global…
• Benchmarking and Enhancing LLM Agents in Localizing Linux Kernel Bugs
  26 May 2025 1 repository listed
  The Linux kernel is a critical system, serving as the foundation for numerous systems.
• Thinking Longer, Not Larger: Enhancing Software Engineering Agents via Scaling Test-Time Compute
  31 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Recent advancements in software engineering agents have demonstrated promising capabilities in automating program improvements.
• Integrating Various Software Artifacts for Better LLM-based Bug Localization and Program Repair
  5 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  We propose DEVLoRe to use issue content (description and message) and stack error traces to localize buggy methods, then rely on debug information in buggy methods and issue content and stack error to localize buggy…
• CFaults: Model-Based Diagnosis for Fault Localization in C Programs with Multiple Test Cases
  12 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  Several formula-based fault localization (FBFL) methods have been proposed, but they fail to guarantee a set of diagnoses across all failing tests or may produce redundant diagnoses that are not subset-minimal,…
• Aligning the Objective of LLM-based Program Repair
  13 Apr 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 6 of 8 samples · 2 unverified
  In this paper, we investigate a new approach to adapt LLMs to program repair.
• Path Analysis for Effective Fault Localization in Deep Neural Networks
  29 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  To address this limitation, we introduce the NP-SBFL method, which leverages Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) to identify essential faulty neural pathways.
• Large Language Models for Test-Free Fault Localization
  3 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  Specifically, we propose to overcome the left-to-right nature of LLMs by fine-tuning a small set of bidirectional adapter layers on top of the representations learned by LLMs to produce LLMAO, the first language model…
• Mutation-based Fault Localization of Deep Neural Networks
  10 Sep 2023 1 repository listed
  Deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to bugs, just like other types of software systems.
• BALANCE: Bayesian Linear Attribution for Root Cause Localization
  31 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  In particular, we propose BALANCE (BAyesian Linear AttributioN for root CausE localization), which formulates the problem of RCA through the lens of attribution in XAI and seeks to explain the anomalies in the target…
• FedDebug: Systematic Debugging for Federated Learning Applications
  9 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  FedDebug's interactive debugging incurs 1.
• DeepFD: Automated Fault Diagnosis and Localization for Deep Learning Programs
  4 May 2022 1 repository listed
  Besides, for fault localization, DeepFD also outperforms the existing works, correctly locating 42% faulty programs, which almost doubles the best result (23%) achieved by the existing works.
• DeepDiagnosis: Automatically Diagnosing Faults and Recommending Actionable Fixes in Deep Learning Programs
  7 Dec 2021 1 repository listed
  Also, it can provide actionable insights for fix whereas DeepLocalize can only report faults that lead to numerical errors during training.
• AequeVox: Automated Fairness Testing of Speech Recognition Systems
  19 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  AequeVox simulates different environments to assess the effectiveness of ASR systems for different populations.
• An exact counterfactual-example-based approach to tree-ensemble models interpretability
  31 May 2021 1 repository listed
  And the black-boxes approaches, which are used to explain such model decisions, suffer from a lack of accuracy in tracing back the exact cause of a model decision regarding a given input.
• An Influence-based Approach for Root Cause Alarm Discovery in Telecom Networks
  7 May 2021 1 repository listed
  Alarm root cause analysis is a significant component in the day-to-day telecommunication network maintenance, and it is critical for efficient and accurate fault localization and failure recovery.
• NNrepair: Constraint-based Repair of Neural Network Classifiers
  23 Mar 2021 1 repository listed
  We present novel strategies to enable precise yet efficient repair such as inferring correctness specifications to act as oracles for intermediate layer repair, and generation of experts for each class.
• Explaining Image Classifiers using Statistical Fault Localization
  1 Aug 2020 1 repository listed
  The black-box nature of deep neural networks (DNNs) makes it impossible to understand why a particular output is produced, creating demand for “Explainable AI”.
• Neural Attribution for Semantic Bug-Localization in Student Programs
  1 Dec 2019 1 repository listed
  In this work, we present NeuralBugLocator, a deep learning based technique, that can localize the bugs in a faulty program with respect to a failing test, without even running the program.
• Explaining Image Classifiers using Statistical Fault Localization
  6 Aug 2019 1 repository listed
  The black-box nature of deep neural networks (DNNs) makes it impossible to understand why a particular output is produced, creating demand for "Explainable AI".
• Dynamic Neural Program Embedding for Program Repair
  20 Nov 2017 1 repository listed
  Evaluation results show that our new semantic program embedding significantly outperforms the syntactic program embeddings based on token sequences and abstract syntax trees.

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