Code-MUE: Measuring Code LLM' Uncertainty through Execution-based Semantic Interaction Graphs,
2026,
(ISSTA'26) ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Acceptance Rate: 23.6%
SE4AI
LLM
AI Trustworthiness
Black-box Analysis
Xiaoning Ren
,
Yinxing Xue
,
Lei Ma
,
Yuheng Huang†
Summary: Inspired by Finding 8 of *Look Before You Leap*, this work introduces a lightweight, black-box paradigm for Code LLM risk assessment that shifts uncertainty estimation from surface-level textual similarity to execution semantics. Based on the observation that syntactic consensus can obscure substantial functional divergence, this work proposes grounding model confidence in the runtime behavior of generated programs as a promising direction for building more trustworthy code automation.
CAM: A Causality-based Analysis Framework for Multi-Agent Code Generation Systems,
2026,
(ISSTA'26) ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Acceptance Rate: 23.6%
SE4AI
LLM
Code Generation
AI Trustworthiness
Black-box Analysis
Zongyi Lyu
,
Zhenlan Ji
,
Songqiang Chen
,
Liwen Wang
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Shuai Wang
,
Shing-Chi Cheung
Datura: Progressive Red Teaming Testing for Tool Invocation Chain in LLM Agents,
2026,
(ISSTA'26) ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Acceptance Rate: 23.6%
SE4AI
LLM
Testing
AI Trustworthiness
AI-enabled System
Yuchen Shao
,
Ziqun Bao
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Yuling Shi
,
Mingyu Weng
,
Yiwen Sun
,
Long Yang
,
Lei Ma
,
Ting Su
,
Chengcheng Wan
Understanding the Fundamental Design Decisions of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems,
2026,
(TOSEM'26) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
SE4AI
LLM
Empirical Study
Shengming Zhao
,
Yuchen Shao
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Jiayang Song
,
Zhijie Wang
,
Chengcheng Wan
,
Lei Ma
Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving Systems: An Initial Roadmap,
2026,
(TOSEM'26) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Survey
ADS
Xiongfei Wu
,
Mingfei Cheng
,
Xiaoning Ren
,
Qiang Hu
,
Jianlang Chen
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Maxime Cordy
,
Yao Zhang
,
Xiaofei Xie
,
Lei Ma
,
Yves Le Traon
Comfrey: Mitigating Integration Failures in LLM-enabled Software at Run-Time,
2026,
(ICSE'26) 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
Acceptance Rate: 24%
SE4AI
LLM
Empirical Study
AI-enabled System
Yuchen Shao
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Jiazhen Zou
,
Yuling Shi
,
Long Yang
,
Lei Ma
,
Ting Su
,
Chengcheng Wan
DRIVENCE: Realistic Driving Sequence Synthesis for Testing Multi-sensor Fusion Perception Systems,
2026,
(TSE'26) Transactions on Software Engineering
SE4AI
ADS
Testing
Xinyu Gao
,
Zhijie Wang
,
Yang Feng
,
Chaolan Wang
,
Zhehua Zhou
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Lei Ma
,
Zhenyu Chen
,
Baowen Xu
AcTracer: Active Testing of Large Language Model via Multi-Stage Sampling,
2025,
(TOSEM'25) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
SE4AI
LLM
Testing
Yuheng Huang
,
Jiayang Song
,
Qiang Hu
,
Felix Juefei-Xu
,
Lei Ma
Summary: We propose characterizing LLM behavior unsupervisedly by jointly analyzing internal neuron-level representations and external uncertainty signals. By capturing complementary behavioral cues, this approach enables more effective and sample-efficient testing.
Risk Assessment Framework for Code LLMs via Leveraging Internal States,
2025,
(FSE'25 Industry Track) 2025 The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering
Acceptance Rate: 27%
SE4AI
LLM
AI Trustworthiness
Yuheng Huang
,
Lei Ma
,
Keizaburo Nishikino
,
Takumi Akazaki
Summary: The internal hidden states of a code model contain critical signals regarding the trustworthiness of its outputs. However, effectively leveraging these signals from modern, massive LLMs requires an approach that matches their sheer complexity. Because a model's generative power emerges from massive scale, we argue that its risk assessment framework should evolve to match this by applying scalable pre-training approaches to these highly informative internal layers.
VLATest: Testing and Evaluating Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation,
2025,
(FSE'25) 2025 The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering
SE4AI
Multimodal
Testing
Zhijie Wang
,
Zhehua Zhou
,
Jiayang Song
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Zhan Shu
,
Lei Ma
Look Before You Leap: An Exploratory Study of Uncertainty Measurement for Large Language Models,
2025,
(TSE'25) Transactions on Software Engineering
SE4AI
AI Trustworthiness
LLM
Black-box Analysis
Empirical Study
Yuheng Huang
,
Jiayang Song
,
Zhijie Wang
,
Shengming Zhao
,
Huaming Chen
,
Felix Juefei-Xu
,
Lei Ma
Summary: This work represents an early exploratory work that leverages external uncertainty analysis to evaluate model trustworthiness, highlighting that the open-ended, generative mechanisms of LLMs require fundamentally different uncertainty measurements than the fixed-class probability outputs of classical DNNs.
Multilingual Blending: Large Language Model Safety Alignment Evaluation with Language Mixture,
2025,
(NAACL'25 Findings) 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Acceptance Rate: 37%
AI Safety
LLM
Jiayang Song
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Zhehua Zhou
,
Lei Ma
TESTEVAL: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Test Case Generation,
2025,
(NAACL'25 Findings) 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Acceptance Rate: 37%
AI4SE
Benchmark
Testing
Wenhan Wang*
,
Chenyuan Yang*
,
Zhijie Wang*
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Zhaoyang Chu
,
Da Song
,
Lingming Zhang
,
An Ran Chen
,
Lei Ma
Are LLMs Correctly Integrated into Software Systems?,
2025,
(ICSE'25) 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
Acceptance Rate: 22%
SE4AI
LLM
Empirical Study
AI-enabled System
Yuchen Shao
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Jiawei Shen
,
Lei Ma
,
Ting Su
,
Chengcheng Wan
Towards Understanding the Characteristics of Code Generation Errors Made by Large Language Models,
2025,
(ICSE'25) 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
Acceptance Rate: 22%
LLM
Code Generation
Empirical Study
Zhijie Wang*
,
Zijie Zhou*
,
Da Song*
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Shengmai Chen
,
Lei Ma
,
Tianyi Zhang
PromptCharm: Text-to-Image Generation through Multi-modal Prompting and Refinement,
2024,
(CHI'24) The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Acceptance Rate: 26.4%
HCI
AI Trustworthiness
Multimodal
Zhijie Wang
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Da Song
,
Lei Ma
,
Tianyi Zhang
LUNA: A Model-Based Universal Analysis Framework for Large Language Models,
2023,
(TSE'24) Transactions on Software Engineering
SE4AI
AI Trustworthiness
LLM
White-box Analysis
Da Song
,
Xuan Xie
,
Jiayang Song
,
Derui Zhu
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Felix Juefei-Xu
,
Lei Ma
Generation-Based Differential Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries,
2023,
(TOSEM'23) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
AI4SE
Testing
Jiawei Liu
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Zhijie Wang
,
Lei Ma
,
Chunrong Fang
,
Mingzheng Gu
,
Xufan Zhang
,
Zhenyu Chen
PatchCensor: Patch Robustness Certification for Transformers via Exhaustive Testing,
2023,
(TOSEM'23) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
SE4AI
AI Trustworthiness
Testing
Yuheng Huang
,
Lei Ma
,
Yuanchun Li
Summary: This work demonstrates that for DNN models (more specifically, Transformer), systematic and rigorous exhaustive testing can move beyond empirical evaluations to provide verifiable, certified results regarding a model's robustness against patch attacks.
DeepLens: Interactive Out-of-distribution Data Detection in NLP Models,
2023,
(CHI'23) The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Acceptance Rate: 28.4%
HCI
AI Trustworthiness
Da Song*
,
Zhijie Wang*
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Lei Ma
,
Tianyi Zhang
DeepSeer: Interactive RNN Explanation and Debugging via State Abstraction,
2023,
(CHI'23) The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Acceptance Rate: 28.4%
HCI
AI Trustworthiness
White-box Analysis
Zhijie Wang
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Da Song
,
Lei Ma
,
Tianyi Zhang
An Exploratory Study of AI System Risk Assessment from the Lens of Data Distribution and Uncertainty,
2022,
Preprint
SE4AI
AI Trustworthiness
Black-box Analysis
Empirical Study
Zhijie Wang
,
Yuheng Huang
,
Lei Ma
,
Haruki Yokoyama
,
Susumu Tokumoto
,
Kazuki Munakata
Understanding (mis) behavior on the eosio blockchain,
2020,
(SIGMETRICS'20) Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
Acceptance Rate: 15%
Measurement
Blockchain
Empirical Study
Yuheng Huang
,
Haoyu Wang
,
Lei Wu
,
Gareth Tyson
,
Xiapu Luo
,
Run Zhang
,
Xuanzhe Liu
,
Gang Huang
,
Xuxian Jiang
Summary: This work performed a large-scale measurement study of the EOSIO ecosystem through graph analysis. It reveals EOSIO's superficial prosperity and pervasive malicious activities.