ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fri 17 Apr 2026 14:45 - 15:00 at Oceania VII - Software Engineering for AI 7 Chair(s): Houari Sahraoui

Despite their wide adoption in various domains (e.g., healthcare, finance, software engineering), Deep Learning (DL)-based applications suffer from many bugs, failures, and vulnerabilities. Reproducing these bugs is essential for their resolution, but it is extremely challenging due to the inherent nondeterminism of DL models and their tight coupling with hardware and software environments. According to recent studies, only about 3% of DL bugs can be reliably reproduced using manual approaches. To address these challenges, we present RepGen, a novel, automated, and intelligent approach for reproducing deep learning bugs. RepGen constructs a learning-enhanced context from a project, develops a comprehensive plan for bug reproduction, employs an iterative generate-validate-refine mechanism, and thus generates such code using an LLM that reproduces the bug at hand. We evaluate RepGen on 106 real-world deep learning bugs and achieve a reproduction rate of 80.19%, a 19.81% improvement over the state-of-the-art measure. A developer study involving 27 participants shows that RepGen improves the success rate of DL bug reproduction by 23.35%, reduces the time to reproduce by 56.8%, and lowers participants’ cognitive load.

Fri 17 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
Software Engineering for AI 7Research Track / Journal-first Papers at Oceania VII
Chair(s): Houari Sahraoui DIRO, Université de Montréal
14:00
15m
Talk
Towards Understanding the Impact of Data Bugs on Deep Learning Models in Software Engineering
Journal-first Papers
Mehil Shah Dalhousie University, Masud Rahman Dalhousie University, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal
Link to publication Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
T4PC: Training Deep Neural Networks for Property Conformance
Journal-first Papers
Felipe Toledo , Trey Woodlief University of Virginia, Sebastian Elbaum University of Virginia, Matthew B Dwyer University of Virginia
14:30
15m
Talk
A Comprehensive Study of Deep Learning Model Fixing ApproachesDistinguished Paper Award
Research Track
Hanmo You Tianjin University, Zan Wang Tianjin University, Zishuo Dong College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Luanqi Mo College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Jianjun Zhao Kyushu University, Junjie Chen Tianjin University
14:45
15m
Talk
Imitation Game: Reproducing Deep Learning Bugs Leveraging an Intelligent Agent
Research Track
Mehil Shah Dalhousie University, Masud Rahman Dalhousie University, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal
DOI Pre-print
15:00
15m
Talk
TypeCare: Boosting Python Type Inference Models via Context-Aware Re-Ranking and AugmentationArtifact Award Winner
Research Track
Wonseok Oh Korea University, Hakjoo Oh Korea University
15:15
15m
Talk
Aligning Requirement for Large Language Model's Code Generation
Research Track
Zhao Tian Tianjin University, Junjie Chen Tianjin University
Pre-print