Chengnian Sun

78 papers A* 20A 10B 1Journal 32Unranked 15
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
LPO: Discovering Missed Peephole Optimizations with Large Language Models.
ASPLOS (2)
Zhenyang Xu, Hongxu Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Xintong Zhou, Chengnian Sun
2026 J jnl
Leveraging Large Language Models for Generalizing Peephole Optimizations.
CoRR
Chunhao Liao, Hongxu Xu, Xintong Zhou, Zhenyang Xu, Chengnian Sun
2025 J jnl
An Empirical Study of Bugs in Data Visualization Libraries.
CoRR
Weiqi Lu, Yongqiang Tian, Xiaohan Zhong, Haoyang Ma, Zhenyang Xu, Shing-Chi Cheung, Chengnian Sun
2025 J jnl
An Empirical Study of Bugs in Data Visualization Libraries.
Proc. ACM Softw. Eng.
Weiqi Lu, Yongqiang Tian, Xiaohan Zhong, Haoyang Ma, Zhenyang Xu, Shing-Chi Cheung, Chengnian Sun
2025 J jnl
Beyond Memorization: Evaluating the True Type Inference Capabilities of LLMs for Java Code Snippets.
CoRR
Yiwen Dong, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Chengnian Sun
2025 J jnl
Boosting Program Reduction with the Missing Piece of Syntax-Guided Transformations.
Proc. ACM Program. Lang.
Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Mengxiao Zhang, Chengnian Sun
2025 — conf
Kitten: A Simple Yet Effective Baseline for Evaluating LLM-Based Compiler Testing Techniques.
ISSTA Companion
Yuanmin Xie, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Min Zhou, Xintong Zhou, Chengnian Sun
2025 J jnl
LLM-Powered Static Binary Taint Analysis.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Puzhuo Liu, Chengnian Sun, Yaowen Zheng, Xuan Feng, Chuan Qin, Yuncheng Wang, Zhenyang Xu, Zhi Li, Peng Di, Yu Jiang, Limin Sun
2025 A* conf
Latra: A Template-Based Language-Agnostic Transformation Framework for Effective Program Reduction.
ASE
Zhenyang Xu, Yiran Wang, Yongqiang Tian, Mengxiao Zhang, Chengnian Sun
2025 J jnl
Leveraging Large Language Models to Detect Missed Peephole Optimizations.
CoRR
Zhenyang Xu, Hongxu Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Xintong Zhou, Chengnian Sun
2025 J jnl
On the Feasibility of Deduplicating Compiler Bugs with Bisection.
CoRR
Xintong Zhou, Zhenyang Xu, Chengnian Sun
2025 J jnl
Preventing Disruption of System Backup against Ransomware Attacks.
Proc. ACM Softw. Eng.
Yiwei Hou, Lihua Guo, Chijin Zhou, Quan Zhang, Wenhuan Liu, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang
2025 J jnl
T-Rec: Fine-Grained Language-Agnostic Program Reduction Guided by Lexical Syntax.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Mengxiao Zhang, Jiarui Zhang, Puzhuo Liu, Yu Jiang, Chengnian Sun
2025 A* conf
Toward a Better Understanding of Probabilistic Delta Debugging.
ICSE
Mengxiao Zhang, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Xinru Cheng, Chengnian Sun
2025 J jnl
Towards Diverse Program Transformations for Program Simplification.
Proc. ACM Softw. Eng.
Haibo Wang, Zezhong Xing, Chengnian Sun, Zheng Wang, Shin Hwei Tan
2025 A* conf
WDD: Weighted Delta Debugging.
ICSE
Xintong Zhou, Zhenyang Xu, Mengxiao Zhang, Yongqiang Tian, Chengnian Sun
2024 J jnl
AddressWatcher: Sanitizer-Based Localization of Memory Leak Fixes.
CoRR
Aniruddhan Murali, Mahmoud Alfadel, Meiyappan Nagappan, Meng Xu, Chengnian Sun
2024 J jnl
AddressWatcher: Sanitizer-Based Localization of Memory Leak Fixes.
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Aniruddhan Murali, Mahmoud Alfadel, Meiyappan Nagappan, Meng Xu, Chengnian Sun
2024 A* conf
An Empirical Study of Data Disruption by Ransomware Attacks.
ICSE
Yiwei Hou, Lihua Guo, Chijin Zhou, Yiwen Xu, Zijing Yin, Shanshan Li, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang
2024 J jnl
Battling against Protocol Fuzzing: Protecting Networked Embedded Devices from Dynamic Fuzzers.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Puzhuo Liu, Yaowen Zheng, Chengnian Sun, Hong Li, Zhi Li, Limin Sun
2024 J jnl
Deep Dive into Probabilistic Delta Debugging: Insights and Simplifications.
CoRR
Mengxiao Zhang, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Xinru Cheng, Chengnian Sun
2024 A conf
LPR: Large Language Models-Aided Program Reduction.
ISSTA
Mengxiao Zhang, Yongqiang Tian, Zhenyang Xu, Yiwen Dong, Shin Hwei Tan, Chengnian Sun
2024 J jnl
Moving beyond Deletions: Program Simplification via Diverse Program Transformations.
CoRR
Haibo Wang, Zezhong Xing, Zheng Wang, Chengnian Sun, Shin Hwei Tan
2024 A* conf
Mozi: Discovering DBMS Bugs via Configuration-Based Equivalent Transformation.
ICSE
Jie Liang, Zhiyong Wu, Jingzhou Fu, Mingzhe Wang, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang
2024 J jnl
On the Caching Schemes to Speed Up Program Reduction.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Yongqiang Tian, Xueyan Zhang, Yiwen Dong, Zhenyang Xu, Mengxiao Zhang, Yu Jiang, Shing-Chi Cheung, Chengnian Sun
2024 J jnl
WDD: Weighted Delta Debugging.
CoRR
Xintong Zhou, Zhenyang Xu, Mengxiao Zhang, Yongqiang Tian, Chengnian Sun
2023 — conf
Ad Hoc Syntax-Guided Program Reduction.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Jia Le Tian, Mengxiao Zhang, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Yiwen Dong, Chengnian Sun
2023 J jnl
Bash in the Wild: Language Usage, Code Smells, and Bugs.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Yiwen Dong, Zheyang Li, Yongqiang Tian, Chengnian Sun, Michael W. Godfrey, Meiyappan Nagappan
2023 J jnl
Building Dynamic System Call Sandbox with Partial Order Analysis.
Proc. ACM Program. Lang.
Quan Zhang, Chijin Zhou, Yiwen Xu, Zijing Yin, Mingzhe Wang, Zhuo Su, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang, Jia-Guang Sun
2023 — conf
Compilation Consistency Modulo Debug Information.
ASPLOS (2)
Theodore Luo Wang, Yongqiang Tian, Yiwen Dong, Zhenyang Xu, Chengnian Sun
2023 A conf
CoopHance: Cooperative Enhancement for Robustness of Deep Learning Systems.
ISSTA
Quan Zhang, Yongqiang Tian, Yifeng Ding, Shanshan Li, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang, Jiaguang Sun
2023 J jnl
EDAssistant: Supporting Exploratory Data Analysis in Computational Notebooks with In Situ Code Search and Recommendation.
ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst.
Xingjun Li, Yizhi Zhang, Justin Leung, Chengnian Sun, Jian Zhao
2023 — conf
FITS: Inferring Intermediate Taint Sources for Effective Vulnerability Analysis of IoT Device Firmware.
ASPLOS (4)
Puzhuo Liu, Yaowen Zheng, Chengnian Sun, Chuan Qin, Dongliang Fang, Mingdong Liu, Limin Sun
2023 J jnl
Finding Deviated Behaviors of the Compressed DNN Models for Image Classifications.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Yongqiang Tian, Wuqi Zhang, Ming Wen, Shing-Chi Cheung, Chengnian Sun, Shiqing Ma, Yu Jiang
2023 J jnl
Harnessing the Power of LLM to Support Binary Taint Analysis.
CoRR
Puzhuo Liu, Chengnian Sun, Yaowen Zheng, Xuan Feng, Chuan Qin, Yuncheng Wang, Zhi Li, Limin Sun
2023 J jnl
Lampr: Boosting the Effectiveness of Language-Generic Program Reduction via Large Language Models.
CoRR
Mengxiao Zhang, Yongqiang Tian, Zhenyang Xu, Yiwen Dong, Shin Hwei Tan, Chengnian Sun
2023 — conf
PPR: Pairwise Program Reduction.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Mengxiao Zhang, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Yu Jiang, Chengnian Sun
2023 J jnl
Pushing the Limit of 1-Minimality of Language-Agnostic Program Reduction.
Proc. ACM Program. Lang.
Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Mengxiao Zhang, Gaosen Zhao, Yu Jiang, Chengnian Sun
2023 A* conf
Revisiting the Evaluation of Deep Learning-Based Compiler Testing.
IJCAI
Yongqiang Tian, Zhenyang Xu, Yiwen Dong, Chengnian Sun, Shing-Chi Cheung
2023 J jnl
Toward More Efficient Statistical Debugging with Abstraction Refinement.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Zhiqiang Zuo, Xintao Niu, Siyi Zhang, Lu Fang, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Shan Lu, Chengnian Sun, Guoqing Harry Xu
2022 J jnl
Feature-FL: Feature-Based Fault Localization.
IEEE Trans. Reliab.
Yan Lei, Huan Xie, Tao Zhang, Meng Yan, Zhou Xu, Chengnian Sun
2022 A* conf
SnR: Constraint-Based Type Inference for Incomplete Java Code Snippets.
ICSE
Yiwen Dong, Tianxiao Gu, Yongqiang Tian, Chengnian Sun
2021 J jnl
EDAssistant: Supporting Exploratory Data Analysis in Computational Notebooks with In-Situ Code Search and Recommendation.
CoRR
Xingjun Li, Yizhi Zhang, Justin Leung, Chengnian Sun, Jian Zhao
2021 A conf
Empirical evaluation of smart contract testing: what is the best choice?
ISSTA
Meng Ren, Zijing Yin, Fuchen Ma, Zhenyang Xu, Yu Jiang, Chengnian Sun, Huizhong Li, Yan Cai
2021 J jnl
Fast Test Input Generation for Finding Deviated Behaviors in Compressed Deep Neural Network.
CoRR
Yongqiang Tian, Wuqi Zhang, Ming Wen, Shing-Chi Cheung, Chengnian Sun, Shiqing Ma, Yu Jiang
2021 — conf
RIFF: Reduced Instruction Footprint for Coverage-Guided Fuzzing.
USENIX ATC
Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang, Chijin Zhou, Yu Jiang, Rui Wang, Chengnian Sun, Jiaguang Sun
2019 A conf
Engineering a Better Fuzzer with Synergically Integrated Optimizations.
ISSRE
Jie Liang, Yuanliang Chen, Mingzhe Wang, Yu Jiang, Zijiang Yang, Chengnian Sun, Xun Jiao, Jiaguang Sun
2019 A* conf
Practical GUI testing of Android applications via model abstraction and refinement.
ICSE
Tianxiao Gu, Chengnian Sun, Xiaoxing Ma, Chun Cao, Chang Xu, Yuan Yao, Qirun Zhang, Jian Lu, Zhendong Su
2019 A* conf
VisFuzz: Understanding and Intervening Fuzzing with Interactive Visualization.
ASE
Chijin Zhou, Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang, Zhe Liu, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang
2018 J jnl
How test suites impact fault localisation starting from the size.
IET Softw.
Yan Lei, Chengnian Sun, Xiaoguang Mao, Zhendong Su
2018 A* conf
Perses: syntax-guided program reduction.
ICSE
Chengnian Sun, Yuanbo Li, Qirun Zhang, Tianxiao Gu, Zhendong Su
2017 A conf
AimDroid: Activity-Insulated Multi-level Automated Testing for Android Applications.
ICSME
Tianxiao Gu, Chun Cao, Tianchi Liu, Chengnian Sun, Jing Deng, Xiaoxing Ma, Jian Lu
2017 A* conf
Skeletal program enumeration for rigorous compiler testing.
PLDI
Qirun Zhang, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su
2017 A* conf
Stochastic optimization of program obfuscation.
ICSE
Han Liu, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su, Yu Jiang, Ming Gu, Jiaguang Sun
2016 A* conf
Automatic runtime recovery via error handler synthesis.
ASE
Tianxiao Gu, Chengnian Sun, Xiaoxing Ma, Jian Lü, Zhendong Su
2016 A* conf
Coverage-directed differential testing of JVM implementations.
PLDI
Yuting Chen, Ting Su, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su, Jianjun Zhao
2016 A* conf
Finding and analyzing compiler warning defects.
ICSE
Chengnian Sun, Vu Le, Zhendong Su
2016 A conf
Finding compiler bugs via live code mutation.
OOPSLA
Chengnian Sun, Vu Le, Zhendong Su
2016 J jnl
Skeletal Program Enumeration for Rigorous Compiler Testing.
CoRR
Qirun Zhang, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su
2016 A conf
Toward understanding compiler bugs in GCC and LLVM.
ISSTA
Chengnian Sun, Vu Le, Qirun Zhang, Zhendong Su
2015 J jnl
Automated prediction of bug report priority using multi-factor analysis.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Yuan Tian, David Lo, Xin Xia, Chengnian Sun
2015 A conf
Finding deep compiler bugs via guided stochastic program mutation.
OOPSLA
Vu Le, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su
2015 A conf
Randomized stress-testing of link-time optimizers.
ISSTA
Vu Le, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su
2014 A conf
Efficient predicated bug signature mining via hierarchical instrumentation.
ISSTA
Zhiqiang Zuo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Chengnian Sun
2014 — conf
Querying sequential software engineering data.
SIGSOFT FSE
Chengnian Sun, Haidong Zhang, Jian-Guang Lou, Hongyu Zhang, Qiang Wang, Dongmei Zhang, Siau-Cheng Khoo
2014 — conf
Tsmart-GalsBlock: a toolkit for modeling, validation, and synthesis of multi-clocked embedded systems.
SIGSOFT FSE
Yu Jiang, Hehua Zhang, Huafeng Zhang, Xinyan Zhao, Han Liu, Chengnian Sun, Xiaoyu Song, Ming Gu, Jia-Guang Sun
2013 A* conf
Constraint-based automatic symmetry detection.
ASE
Shao Jie Zhang, Jun Sun, Chengnian Sun, Yang Liu, Junwei Ma, Jin Song Dong
2013 — conf
DRONE: Predicting Priority of Reported Bugs by Multi-factor Analysis.
ICSM
Yuan Tian, David Lo, Chengnian Sun
2013 B conf
Mining explicit rules for software process evaluation.
ICSSP
Chengnian Sun, Jing Du, Ning Chen, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Ye Yang
2013 — conf
Mining succinct predicated bug signatures.
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Chengnian Sun, Siau-Cheng Khoo
2013 A* conf
TzuYu: Learning stateful typestates.
ASE
Hao Xiao, Jun Sun, Yang Liu, Shang-Wei Lin, Chengnian Sun
2012 A* conf
Duplicate bug report detection with a combination of information retrieval and topic modeling.
ASE
Anh Tuan Nguyen, Tung Thanh Nguyen, Tien N. Nguyen, David Lo, Chengnian Sun
2012 — conf
Improved Duplicate Bug Report Identification.
CSMR
Yuan Tian, Chengnian Sun, David Lo
2012 — conf
Information Retrieval Based Nearest Neighbor Classification for Fine-Grained Bug Severity Prediction.
WCRE
Yuan Tian, David Lo, Chengnian Sun
2011 — conf
Graph-based detection of library API imitations.
ICSM
Chengnian Sun, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Shao Jie Zhang
2011 A* conf
Towards more accurate retrieval of duplicate bug reports.
ASE
Chengnian Sun, David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Jing Jiang
2010 — conf
A discriminative model approach for accurate duplicate bug report retrieval.
ICSE (1)
Chengnian Sun, David Lo, Xiaoyin Wang, Jing Jiang, Siau-Cheng Khoo
2009 A* conf
Classification of software behaviors for failure detection: a discriminative pattern mining approach.
KDD
David Lo, Hong Cheng, Jiawei Han, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Chengnian Sun