ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thu 16 Apr 2026 12:00 - 12:15 at Europa II - AI for Software Engineering 12 Chair(s): Peter Rigby

Automating Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is challenging, and large language models (LLMs) often produce incorrect configurations from natural language. We present TerraFormer, a neuro-symbolic framework for IaC generation and mutation that combines supervised fine-tuning with verifier-guided reinforcement learning, using formal tools to provide feedback on syntax, deployability, and policy compliance. We curate two large, high-quality datasets, TF-Gen (152k instances) and TF-Mutn (52k instances), via multi-stage verification and iterative LLM self-correction. Evaluations against 17 state-of-the-art LLMs, including 50 times larger models like Sonnet 3.7, DeepSeek-R1, and GPT-4.1, show that TerraFormer improves correctness over its base LLM by 15.94% on IaC-Eval, 11.65% on TF-Gen (Test), and 19.60% on TF-Mutn (Test). It outperforms larger models on both TF-Gen (Test) and TF-Mutn (Test), ranks third on IaC-Eval, and achieves top best-practices and security compliance.

Thu 16 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
AI for Software Engineering 12Research Track / SE In Practice (SEIP) at Europa II
Chair(s): Peter Rigby Concordia University; Meta
11:00
15m
Talk
Dually Hierarchical Drift Adaptation for Online Configuration Performance Learning
Research Track
Zezhen Xiang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Jingzhi Gong King's College London, Tao Chen University of Birmingham
Pre-print
11:15
15m
Talk
3D Software Synthesis Driven by Constraint-Expressive Intermediate RepresentationVirtual Attendance
Research Track
Shuqing Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Anson Y. Lam The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yun Peng The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wenxuan Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
PromiseTune: Unveiling Causally Promising and Explainable Configuration Tuning
Research Track
Pengzhou Chen University of electronic science and technology of China, Tao Chen University of Birmingham
Pre-print
11:45
15m
Talk
From Seed to Scope: Reasoning to Identify Change Impact Sets
Research Track
Aashish Yadavally University of Central Florida, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas
Pre-print
12:00
15m
Talk
TerraFormer: Automated Infrastructure-as-Code with LLMs Fine-Tuned via Policy-Guided Verifier FeedbackVirtual AttendanceDistinguished Paper Award
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Prithwish Jana Georgia Institute of Technology, Sam Davidson Amazon Web Services, Bhavana Bhasker Amazon Web Services, Andrey Kan Amazon Web Services, Anoop Deoras Amazon Web Services, Laurent Callot AWS AI Labs
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
12:15
15m
Talk
From Code Changes to Quality Gains: An Empirical Study in Python ML Systems with PyQu
Research Track
Mohamed Almukhtar University of Michigan-Flint, Anwar Ghammam University of Michigan - Dearborn, Marouane Kessentini Grand Valley State University, Hua Ming University of Michigan - Flint
Pre-print