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Summary of the paper: “DescribeCtx: Context-Aware Description Synthesis for Sensitive Behaviors in Mobile Apps”

September 22, 2024

Paper citation: Yang, Shao, Yuehan Wang, Yuan Yao, Haoyu Wang, Yanfang Ye, and Xusheng Xiao. “Describectx: context-aware description synthesis for sensitive behaviors in mobile apps.” In Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 685–697. 2022. Summary: Generate app description given the code, GUI text, and requested permissions. Approach: 1. Extract features from…

Summary of the paper: “COSTELLO: Contrastive Testing for Embedding-Based Large Language Model as a Service Embeddings”

September 19, 2024

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Paper citation: Jiang, Weipeng, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma, Xiaoyu Zhang, and Chao Shen. “COSTELLO: Contrastive Testing for Embedding-Based Large Language Model as a Service Embeddings.” Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering 1, no. FSE (July 12, 2024): 906–28. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643767. Summary: This paper presents Costello a contrastive learning approach for testing validating the embeddings of…

Glossary of LLM Terms and Abbreviations in Academic Papers

September 19, 2024

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This is a list of all terms related to large language models that I found while reading academic papers in that field. I will keep adding to this glossary each time I encounter a new term (ISA), please let me know if you find a missing term in this list. This list is in ascending…