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Yanan Shi

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  • AI & ComputingOpen access

    Seeing Is Coding: On the Effectiveness of Vision Language Models in Code Understanding

    Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in source code understanding, yet as software systems grow in scale, computational efficiency has become a critical bottleneck. Currently, these models rely on a text-based paradigm that treats source code as a linear...

    Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.2026-10-011 citationsDOI
  • AI & ComputingOpen access

    Test vs Mutant: Adversarial LLM Agents for Robust Unit Test Generation

    Software testing is a critical, yet resource-intensive phase of the software development lifecycle. Search-based approaches typically achieve high coverage but produce tests with low readability, whereas large language model (LLM)-based methods generate more human-readable tests...

    Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.2026-10-010 citationsDOI