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MSR 2022
Mon 23 - Tue 24 May 2022
co-located with ICSE 2022

Compiler fuzzing tools such as Csmith have uncovered many bugs in compilers by randomly sampling programs from a generative model. The success of these tools is often attributed to their ability to generate unexpected corner case inputs that developers tend to overlook during manual testing. At the same time, their chaotic nature makes fuzzer-generated test cases notoriously hard to interpret, which has lead to the creation of input simplification tools such as C-Reduce (for C compiler bugs). In until now unrelated work, researchers have also shown that human-written software tends to be rather repetitive and predictable to language models. Studies show that developers deliberately write more predictable code, whereas code with bugs is relatively unpredictable. In this study, we ask the natural questions of whether this high predictability property of code also, and perhaps counter-intuitively, applies to fuzzer-generated code. That is, we investigate whether fuzzer-generated compiler inputs are deemed unpredictable by a language model built on human-written code and surprisingly conclude that \emph{it is not}. To the contrary, Csmith fuzzer-generated programs are \emph{more} predictable on a per-token basis than human-written C programs. Furthermore, bug-triggering tended to be more predictable still than random inputs, and the C-Reduce minimization tool did not substantially increase this predictability. Rather, we find that bug-triggering inputs are unpredictable relative to \emph{Csmith’s own} generative model. This is encouraging; our results suggest promising research directions on incorporating predictability metrics in the fuzzing and reduction tools themselves.

Thu 19 May

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11:00 - 11:50
Session 11: Machine Learning & Information RetrievalTechnical Papers at MSR Main room - odd hours
Chair(s): Phuong T. Nguyen University of L’Aquila
11:00
4m
Short-paper
On the Naturalness of Fuzzer Generated Code
Technical Papers
Rajeswari Hita Kambhamettu Carnegie Mellon University, John Billos Wake Forest University, Carolyn "Tomi" Oluwaseun-Apo Pennsylvania State University, Benjamin Gafford Carnegie Mellon University, Rohan Padhye Carnegie Mellon University, Vincent J. Hellendoorn Carnegie Mellon University
11:04
7m
Talk
Does Configuration Encoding Matter in Learning Software Performance? An Empirical Study on Encoding Schemes
Technical Papers
Jingzhi Gong Loughborough University, Tao Chen Loughborough University
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
11:11
7m
Talk
Multimodal Recommendation of Messenger Channels
Technical Papers
Ekaterina Koshchenko JetBrains Research, Egor Klimov JetBrains Research, Vladimir Kovalenko JetBrains Research
11:18
7m
Talk
Senatus: A Fast and Accurate Code-to-Code Recommendation Engine
Technical Papers
Fran Silavong JP Morgan Chase & Co., Sean Moran JP Morgan Chase & Co., Antonios Georgiadis JP Morgan Chase & Co., Rohan Saphal JP Morgan Chase & Co., Robert Otter JP Morgan Chase & Co.
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
11:25
7m
Talk
Challenges in Migrating Imperative Deep Learning Programs to Graph Execution: An Empirical Study
Technical Papers
Tatiana Castro Vélez City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, Raffi Khatchadourian City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College, Mehdi Bagherzadeh Oakland University, Anita Raja City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College
Pre-print Media Attached
11:32
7m
Talk
GraphCode2Vec: Generic Code Embedding via Lexical and Program Dependence Analyses
Technical Papers
Wei Ma SnT, University of Luxembourg, Mengjie Zhao LMU Munich, Ezekiel Soremekun SnT, University of Luxembourg, Qiang Hu University of Luxembourg, Jie M. Zhang King's College London, Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Maxime Cordy University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Xiaofei Xie Singapore Management University, Singapore, Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Pre-print
11:39
11m
Live Q&A
Discussions and Q&A
Technical Papers

Mon 23 May

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13:30 - 15:00
Blended Technical Session 2 (Machine Learning and Information Retrieval) Technical Papers / Data and Tool Showcase Track at Room 315+316
Chair(s): Preetha Chatterjee Drexel University, USA
13:30
15m
Talk
Methods for Stabilizing Models across Large Samples of Projects(with case studies on Predicting Defect and Project Health)
Technical Papers
Suvodeep Majumder North Carolina State University, Tianpei Xia North Carolina State University, Rahul Krishna North Carolina State University, Tim Menzies North Carolina State University
Pre-print Media Attached
13:45
15m
Talk
GraphCode2Vec: Generic Code Embedding via Lexical and Program Dependence Analyses
Technical Papers
Wei Ma SnT, University of Luxembourg, Mengjie Zhao LMU Munich, Ezekiel Soremekun SnT, University of Luxembourg, Qiang Hu University of Luxembourg, Jie M. Zhang King's College London, Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Maxime Cordy University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Xiaofei Xie Singapore Management University, Singapore, Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Pre-print
14:00
15m
Talk
Senatus: A Fast and Accurate Code-to-Code Recommendation Engine
Technical Papers
Fran Silavong JP Morgan Chase & Co., Sean Moran JP Morgan Chase & Co., Antonios Georgiadis JP Morgan Chase & Co., Rohan Saphal JP Morgan Chase & Co., Robert Otter JP Morgan Chase & Co.
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
14:15
8m
Short-paper
Comments on Comments: Where Code Review and Documentation Meet
Technical Papers
Nikitha Rao Carnegie Mellon University, Jason Tsay IBM Research, Martin Hirzel IBM Research, Vincent J. Hellendoorn Carnegie Mellon University
DOI Pre-print File Attached
14:23
8m
Short-paper
On the Naturalness of Fuzzer Generated Code
Technical Papers
Rajeswari Hita Kambhamettu Carnegie Mellon University, John Billos Wake Forest University, Carolyn "Tomi" Oluwaseun-Apo Pennsylvania State University, Benjamin Gafford Carnegie Mellon University, Rohan Padhye Carnegie Mellon University, Vincent J. Hellendoorn Carnegie Mellon University
14:31
8m
Talk
SOSum: A Dataset of Stack Overflow Post Summaries
Data and Tool Showcase Track
Bonan Kou Purdue University, Yifeng Di Purdue University, Muhao Chen University of Southern California, Tianyi Zhang Purdue University
14:39
21m
Live Q&A
Discussions and Q&A
Technical Papers


Information for Participants
Thu 19 May 2022 11:00 - 11:50 at MSR Main room - odd hours - Session 11: Machine Learning & Information Retrieval Chair(s): Phuong T. Nguyen
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