arXiv AI

Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions

arXiv:2607. 02512v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many everyday programming tasks resist clean rule-based implementation, such as alerting on important log lines, repairing malformed JSON, or ranking search results by intent, and are increasingly outsourced to large language model APIs at the cost of locality, reproducibility, and price.

arXiv AI
Sep 4

Compile by Training: Turning Natural-Language Specifications into Local Neural Functions

The paper introduces "compile by training," a method that converts natural-language specifications into reusable neural functions. By generating task-specific examples with teacher models at compile time, a small adapter is trained for a compact interpreter, eliminating the need for remote model calls during execution. The approach achieves 83.6% semantic accuracy on FuzzyBench-Hard, though it incurs a higher compile-time cost of about a minute, and is demonstrated in applications such as a multi-site website helper, a language-controlled 3D avatar, and a bidirectional English‑Claudish translator.

By Yuntian Deng, Pengyu Nie, Stuart Shieber
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10

Selective Left-Shift: Turning Test-Time Compute and Difficulty-based Curation into Training Data for Low-Resource Code Generation

arXiv:2607. 07748v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models achieve strong code generation for high resource languages like Python and Java but suffer sharp performance drops on Low-Resource Programming Languages~(LRPLs) such as Julia.

By Didula Samaraweera, Anjana Supun, Srinath Perera
arXiv AI
Sep 18

BuildBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Compiling Real-World Open-Source Software

BuildBench introduces a realistic benchmark for evaluating large language model agents on the task of compiling open‑source software (OSS). It includes diverse OSS projects that lack clear build instructions, have undocumented dependencies, and may require source patching or script modification. The authors also present OSS‑BUILD‑AGENT, a baseline LLM‑based agent that retrieves build instructions effectively and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on the benchmark.

By Zehua Zhang, Ati Priya Bajaj, Divij Handa, Siyu Liu, Arvind S Raj, Hongkai Chen, Hulin Wang, Yibo Liu, Zion Leonahenahe Basque, Souradip Nath, Vishal Juneja, Nikhil Chapre, Tiffany Bao, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Adam Doup\'e, Chitta Baral, Ruoyu Wang