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SpecDetect4ML: Detecting Non-Local ML Code Smells with Code Property Graphs

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arXiv:2509. 20491v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) pipelines encode quality-relevant decisions across data preparation, training, evaluation, and configuration code.

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