The paper introduces LWVIC4Code, a non‑contrastive, layer‑wise representation learning method for detecting Type‑IV code clones—semantically equivalent fragments that differ syntactically. It builds on the VICReg framework, adding cross‑layer consistency regularization and depth‑dependent weighting to refine semantic information across transformer layers. Experiments on Python and multi‑language datasets show that LWVIC4Code matches or outperforms contrastive baselines and zero‑shot large language models, generalizing well to Java and C# without requiring negative samples.
By Luciano Marchezan, Kevin Delcourt, Eugene Syriani, Houari Sahraoui
The paper investigates using synthetic natural-language descriptions to contrastively pretrain small transformer encoders for code representation. By pairing generated descriptions with code in a dual-encoder setup during training and discarding them at inference, the authors achieve significant improvements over traditional pretraining baselines on most evaluated tasks. When fine‑tuned, these models match or surpass much larger zero‑shot models and remain competitive with execution‑aware supervision, indicating a scalable alternative for code embeddings.
By Kenneth Paulsen, Florian Tambon, Mike Papadakis, Shin Yoo
The paper investigates whether code large language models (CodeLLMs) inadvertently reproduce proprietary or sensitive code by evaluating seven state‑of‑the‑art training data detection (TDD) methods on eight CodeLLMs. It introduces CodeSnitch, a benchmark of 9,000 function‑level code samples across three languages, each labeled as included or excluded from training data, and applies mutation strategies based on the Type‑1 to Type‑4 code clone taxonomy to test TDD robustness. The study offers a systematic assessment of current TDD techniques for code and suggests directions for developing more effective detection methods.
By Tianlin Li, Yunxiang Wei, Zhiming Li, Aishan Liu, Qing Guo, Xianglong Liu, Dongning Sun, Yang Liu
arXiv:2607. 23271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive vision-language models such as CLIP map semantically opposite phrases (e.
By Chen-Yi Lu, Yueh-Shao Chen, Somali Chaterji
arXiv:2607. 14113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While many AI-generated text (AIGT) detectors achieve strong performance on clean inputs, their accuracy degrades significantly under light paraphrasing, word substitutions, character edits, and distribution shifts.
By Gayan K. Kulatilleke, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh, Siamak Layeghy, Marius Portmann
arXiv:2606. 24716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used to extract interpretable concepts from vision and vision language models, yet existing evaluation methods largely rely on proxy metrics or qualitative inspection rather than measuring semantic correspondence.
By Jonas Klotz, Cassio F. Dantas, Pallavi Jain, Diego Marcos, Beg\"um Demir
arXiv:2601.02438v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Software vulnerability detection can be formulated as a binary classification problem that determines whether a given code snippet contains s...
By Yun Bian, Yi Chen, HaiQuan Wang, ShiHao Li, Zhe Cui
arXiv:2608.29604v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language retrieval with CLIP-style dual encoders achieves strong cross-modal performance, yet practical accuracy often hinges on localized sem...
By Siyi Liu, Xiaorong Zhu, Enjun Du, Xinyu Zuo, Lisheng Duan, Haijin Liang, Jin Ma, Junfu Pu, Yongqi Zhang
arXiv:2609.22097v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The evaluation of large language models (LLMs) on coding tasks has primarily focused on performance metrics such as pass@k. As LLMs continue to advan...
By Junpeng Wang, Yuzhong Chen, Menghai Pan, Uday Singh Saini, Yiwei Cai
The paper investigates whether training small decoder-only transformers on code‑switched text can induce cross‑lingual alignment. Using two 100‑million‑word multilingual corpora—one a mix of English, Dutch, and Chinese BabyBabelLM data, and another generated by inserting word‑ and sentence‑level code‑switching via an LLM—the authors find that code‑switched training aligns representations of parallel text, especially across different scripts, and that this alignment persists when later training on monolingual documents. A curriculum that progresses from word‑level code‑switching to sentence‑level code‑switching and finally to monolingual data yields models that outperform baselines on the BabyLM evaluation suite, demonstrating that code‑switching curriculum learning is an effective data augmentation strategy for multilingual pretraining.
By Dries Rooryck, Alex Cai, Yonatan Belinkov, David Alvarez-Melis, Kiant\'e Brantley
arXiv:2608. 14659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models for code generation often produce incorrect solutions without reliable indicators of failure.
By Pranav Rakasi, Maanas Lalwani, Arnav Srivastava, Arya Palanivel, Tinuade Adeleke, Ruizhe Li, Sean Wu
arXiv:2609.07876v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recent methods in language model interpretability employ techniques such as sparse autoencoders to decompose residual stream contributions into linea...
By Arjun Patrawala, Jiahai Feng, Erik Jones, Jacob Steinhardt