Identifying Performance-Sensitive Configurations in Software Systems with LLM-Driven Agents
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Thu 1 May 2025 11:30 - 11:36 at 204 - ACM Student Research Presentations Chair(s): Lola Burgueño, Md Tajmilur Rahman
Configuration settings are essential for tailoring software behavior to meet specific performance requirements. However, incorrect configurations are common, and identifying those that impact system performance is challenging due to the vast number and complexity of possible settings. In this work, we present PerfAware, a lightweight framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to efficiently identify performance-sensitive configurations with minimal overhead. PerfAware employs LLM agents to simulate interactions between developers and performance engineers using advanced prompting techniques such as prompt chaining and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Our evaluation of seven open-source Java systems demonstrates that PerfAware achieves an average accuracy of 70.55% in classifying performance-sensitive configurations, outperforming both our LLM baseline (58.47%) and the previous state-of-the-art method (60.87%). Notably, our prompt chaining technique improves precision significantly while maintaining similar recall levels. In summary, PerfAware significantly reduces manual effort in classifying performance-sensitive configurations and offers valuable insights for future LLM-based code analysis research.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Tue 29 AprDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
09:00 - 10:30 | ACM Student Research Posters and Judging Session 1SRC - ACM Student Research Competition at Canada Hall 3 Poster Area Chair(s): Md Tajmilur Rahman Gannon University | ||
09:00 90mTalk | Consistent Graph Model Generation with Large Language Models SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Boqi Chen McGill University | ||
09:00 90mTalk | Enhancing OSS Remediation with Patch Backporting SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University | ||
09:00 90mTalk | Improving Formal Methods VisualizationsFormal Methods SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Avinash Palliyil Georgia Institute of Technology | ||
09:00 90mTalk | MUARF: Leveraging Multi-Agent Workflows for Automated Code Refactoring SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Yisen Xu Software PErformance, Analysis, and Reliability (SPEAR) lab, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada | ||
09:00 90mTalk | Identifying Performance-Sensitive Configurations in Software Systems with LLM-Driven Agents SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Zehao Wang Concordia University | ||
09:00 90mTalk | Characterising Algorithm Debt in Machine and Deep Learning Systems SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Emmanuel Iko-Ojo Simon Australian National University | ||
09:00 90mTalk | Automatic Fuzz Drivers for JavaScript with Type Distributions SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Mayant Mukul University of British Columbia |
Thu 1 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
11:00 - 12:30 | ACM Student Research PresentationsSRC - ACM Student Research Competition at 204 Chair(s): Lola Burgueño University of Malaga, Md Tajmilur Rahman A subset of finalist ACM SRC students will give short presentations in this session. That decision about who will present will be made after the poster sessions, and this schedule will be updated, so don’t rely on the precise timing until just before the session.. They all also have posters in Canada Hall 3 Poster area, with judging to be on Tuesday. Awards will be announced in the banquet on Thursday evening. | ||
11:00 6mTalk | Automatic Fuzz Drivers for JavaScript with Type Distributions SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Mayant Mukul University of British Columbia | ||
11:06 6mTalk | CASS: Context-Aware Slice Summarization for Debugging Regression Failures SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Sahar Badihi University of British Columbia, Canada | ||
11:12 6mTalk | Characterising Algorithm Debt in Machine and Deep Learning Systems SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Emmanuel Iko-Ojo Simon Australian National University | ||
11:18 6mTalk | Consistent Graph Model Generation with Large Language Models SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Boqi Chen McGill University | ||
11:24 6mTalk | Enhancing OSS Remediation with Patch Backporting SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University | ||
11:30 6mTalk | Identifying Performance-Sensitive Configurations in Software Systems with LLM-Driven Agents SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Zehao Wang Concordia University | ||
11:36 6mTalk | Improving Formal Methods VisualizationsFormal Methods SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Avinash Palliyil Georgia Institute of Technology | ||
11:42 6mTalk | MUARF: Leveraging Multi-Agent Workflows for Automated Code Refactoring SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Yisen Xu Software PErformance, Analysis, and Reliability (SPEAR) lab, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada | ||
11:48 6mTalk | On the Automation of Code Review Tasks Through Cross-Task Knowledge Distillation SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Oussama Ben Sghaier DIRO, Université de Montréal | ||
11:54 6mTalk | On the Fly Input Refinement for Code Language Models SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Ravishka Shemal Rathnasuriya University of Texas at Dallas | ||
12:00 6mTalk | Program Feature-based Fuzzing Benchmarking SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Miao Miao The University of Texas at Dallas | ||
12:06 6mTalk | Revisiting SWE-Bench: On the Importance of Data Quality for LLM-based Code Models SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Reem Aleithan York University, Canada | ||
12:12 6mTalk | The Balancing Act of Policies in Developing Machine Learning Explanations SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Jacob Tjaden Colby College | ||
12:18 6mTalk | To Mock or Not to Mock: Divergence in Mocking Practices Between LLM and Developers SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Hanbin Qin Stevens Institute of Technology | ||
12:24 6mTalk | Towards Compatibly Mitigating Technical Lag in Maven Projects SRC - ACM Student Research Competition Rui Lu East China Normal University |