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 …

[HTML][HTML] A survey of GPT-3 family large language models including ChatGPT and GPT-4

KS Kalyan - Natural Language Processing Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Large language models (LLMs) are a special class of pretrained language models (PLMs)
obtained by scaling model size, pretraining corpus and computation. LLMs, because of their …

Large language models for software engineering: Survey and open problems

A Fan, B Gokkaya, M Harman… - 2023 IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides a survey of the emerging area of Large Language Models (LLMs) for
Software Engineering (SE). It also sets out open research challenges for the application of …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on large language model (llm) security and privacy: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Y Yao, J Duan, K Xu, Y Cai, Z Sun, Y Zhang - High-Confidence Computing, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Bard, have revolutionized
natural language understanding and generation. They possess deep language …

Software testing with large language models: Survey, landscape, and vision

J Wang, Y Huang, C Chen, Z Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a breakthrough
technology in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, with the ability 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 …

Exploring and evaluating hallucinations in llm-powered code generation

F Liu, Y Liu, L Shi, H Huang, R Wang, Z Yang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced many applications
on software engineering tasks, particularly in code generation. Despite the promising …

Universal fuzzing via large language models

CS Xia, M Paltenghi, J Le Tian, M Pradel, L Zhang - CoRR, 2023 - openreview.net
Fuzzing has achieved tremendous success in discovering bugs and vulnerabilities in
various software systems. Systems under test (SUTs) that take in programming or formal …

Agentless: Demystifying llm-based software engineering agents

CS Xia, Y Deng, S Dunn, L Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01489, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the
automation of software development tasks, including code synthesis, program repair, and …

Code-aware prompting: A study of coverage-guided test generation in regression setting using llm

G Ryan, S Jain, M Shang, S Wang, X Ma… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Testing plays a pivotal role in ensuring software quality, yet conventional Search Based
Software Testing (SBST) methods often struggle with complex software units, achieving …