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Sat 3 May 2025 12:20 - 12:30 at 214 - Keynote 2 / Paper Session 2 Chair(s): Prem Devanbu

LLMs are rapidly being adopted to build powerful tools and agents for software engineering, but most of them rely heavily on extremely large closed-source models. This, in turn, can hinder wider adoption due to security issues as well as financial cost and environmental impact. Recently, a number of open source Small Language Models (SLMs) are being released and gaining traction. While SLMs are smaller, more energy-efficient, and therefore easier to locally deploy, they tend to show worse performance when compared to larger closed LLMs. We present COSMos, a task-level LLM ensemble technique that uses voting mechanism, to provide a broader range of choice between SLMs and LLMs. We instantiate COSMos with an LLM-based Fault Localisation technique, AutoFL, and report the cost-benefit trade-off between LLM accuracy and various costs such as energy consumption, inference time, and the number of tokens used. An empirical evaluation using Defects4J shows that COSMos can build effective ensembles that can achieve Pareto-optimality in terms of FL accuracy and inference cost, when compared to individual models.

Sat 3 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Keynote 2 / Paper Session 2LLM4Code at 214
Chair(s): Prem Devanbu University of California at Davis
11:00
60m
Keynote
Keynote 2: Towards Autonomous Language Model Systems (zoom talk)
LLM4Code
Ofir Press Princeton University
12:00
10m
Talk
With a Little Help from My (LLM) Friends: Enhancing Static Analysis with LLMs to Detect Software Vulnerabilities
LLM4Code
Amy Munson University of California, San Diego, Juanita Gomez University of California, Santa Cruz, Álvaro Cárdenas University of California, Santa Cruz
12:10
10m
Talk
Automating the Detection of Code Vulnerabilities by Analyzing GitHub Issues
LLM4Code
Daniele Cipollone Delft University of Technology, Changjie Wang KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Mariano Scazzariello RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Simone Ferlin Red Hat, Maliheh Izadi Delft University of Technology, Dejan Kostic KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Marco Chiesa KTH Royal Institute of Technology
12:20
10m
Talk
COSMosFL: Ensemble of Small Language Models for Fault Localisation
LLM4Code
Hyunjoon Cho KAIST, Sungmin Kang KAIST, Gabin An KAIST, Shin Yoo KAIST
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