ASE 2025
Sun 16 - Thu 20 November 2025 Seoul, South Korea

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 17 Nov 2025 12:10 - 12:20 at Vista - SE4AI & AI4SE 1

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are suffering from ethical issues such as individual discrimination. In response, extensive NN repair techniques have been developed to adjust models and mitigate such undesired behaviors. However, existing fairness repair methods are typically data-centric, which often lack provable guarantees and generalization to unseen samples. To overcome these limitations, we propose ProF, a novel fairness repair framework with provable guarantees. The key intuition of ProF is to leverage interval bound propagation (a widely used NN verification technique) to soundly capture model outputs over the whole set $\mathcal{S}(\bm{x})$ around a biased sample $\bm{x}$. The derived bounds are utilized to guide fairness repair which encourages the model to produce consistent outputs on $\mathcal{S}(\bm{x})$. Specifically, we integrate fairness constraints and model modifications into a unified constraint-solving formulation, which can be transformed to a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem solvable by off-the-shelf solvers. The solution to the MILP problem effectively induces a repaired model with guaranteed fairness over the whole set $\mathcal{S}(\bm{x})$. We evaluate ProF on four widely used benchmark datasets and demonstrate that it achieves provable fairness repair, with generalization of up to 95.93% on full datasets and 93.16% on the entire input space. Notably, ProF can be easily configured to support multiple sensitive attributes and more practical fairness definitions, while providing provable repair guarantees and delivering around 90% fairness improvement. Our code is available in this repository.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 17 Nov

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11:00 - 12:30
11:00
10m
Talk
TensorGuard: Gradient-Based Model Fingerprinting for LLM Similarity Detection and Family Classification
Research Papers
Zehao Wu Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yanjie Zhao Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
11:10
10m
Talk
Root Cause Analysis of RISC-V Build Failures via LLM and MCTS Reasoning
Research Papers
Weipeng Shuai Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jie Liu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhirou Ma Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Liangyi Kang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zehua Wang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuai Wang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dan Ye Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hui Li , Wei Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiaxin Zhu Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences
11:20
10m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Knowledge Transfer in AI Pair Programming
Research Papers
Alisa Carla Welter Saarland University, Niklas Schneider Saarland University, Tobias Dick Saarland University, Kallistos Weis Saarland University, Christof Tinnes Saarland University, Marvin Wyrich Saarland University, Sven Apel Saarland University
11:30
10m
Talk
Efficient Understanding of Machine Learning Model Mispredictions
Research Papers
Martin Eberlein Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin, Jürgen Cito TU Wien, Lars Grunske Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
11:40
10m
Talk
Can Mamba Be Better? An Experimental Evaluation of Mamba in Code Intelligence
Research Papers
Shuo Liu City University of Hong Kong, Jacky Keung City University of Hong Kong, Zhen Yang Shandong University, Zhenyu Mao City University of Hong Kong, Yicheng Sun City University of Hong Kong
11:50
10m
Talk
"My productivity is boosted, but ..." Demystifying Users’ Perception on AI Coding Assistants
Research Papers
Yunbo Lyu Singapore Management University, Zhou Yang University of Alberta, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute , Jieke Shi Singapore Management University, Chang Jianming , Yue Liu Monash University, David Lo Singapore Management University
12:00
10m
Talk
HFUZZER: Testing Large Language Models for Package Hallucinations via Phrase-based Fuzzing
Research Papers
Yukai Zhao , Menghan Wu Zhejiang University, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Zhejiang University
12:10
10m
Talk
Provable Fairness Repair for Deep Neural Networks
Research Papers
Jianan Ma Hangzhou Dianzi University, China; Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Jingyi Wang Zhejiang University, Qi Xuan Zhejiang University of Technology; Binjiang Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Zhen Wang Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
12:20
10m
Talk
AutoAdapt: On the Application of AutoML for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Code Models
Journal-First Track
Amal Akli University of Luxembourg, Maxime Cordy University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg, Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg