📝 Selected Papers
Language Model Semantics
ArXiv Distilling Language Models via Capacity-Aware Reaction Transfer
Jian Gu, Aldeida Aleti, Chunyang Chen, Hongyu Zhang, Peng Di, Sheng GaoACL'26 Cross-Scale Knowledge Transfer in Language Models through Latent Semantic Alignment
Jian Gu, Aldeida Aleti, Chunyang Chen, Hongyu ZhangACL'25 Semantic-Aware Layer-Freezing for Computation-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LMs
Jian Gu, Aldeida Aleti, Chunyang Chen, Hongyu ZhangArXiv Vocabulary-Defined Semantics: Latent Space Clustering for Beyond-Context Learning
Jian Gu, Aldeida Aleti, Chunyang Chen, Hongyu Zhang
Software Engineering for Machine Learning (SE4AI)
ArXiv SemRF: A Semantic Reference Frame for Residual-Stream Dynamics in LMs
Jian Gu, Aldeida Aleti, Chunyang Chen, Hongyu ZhangArXiv Rethinking Weight Tying: Pseudo-Inverse Tying for Stable LM Training and Updates
Jian Gu, Aldeida Aleti, Chunyang Chen, Hongyu ZhangICSE'26 Semantic-based Optimization for Repairing LLMs: Case Study on Code Generation
Jian Gu, Aldeida Aleti, Chunyang Chen, Hongyu ZhangArXiv Focus-Aware Neurons: Contextual LM Repair leveraging Selective Gating Attention
Jian Gu, Aldeida Aleti, Chunyang Chen, Hongyu ZhangTOSEM 2026 Neuron Patching: Semantic-based Neuron-level LM Repair for Code Generation
Jian Gu, Aldeida Aleti, Chunyang Chen, Hongyu Zhang
Machine Learning for Software Engineering (AI4SE)
FSE'23 (IVR) Towards Top-Down Automated Development in Limited Scopes:
A Neuro-Symbolic Framework from Expressibles to Executables
Jian Gu, Harald C. GallSANER'22 Assemble Foundation Models for Automatic Code Summarization
Jian Gu, Pasquale Salza, Harald C. GallICSME'21 Multimodal Representation for Neural Code Search
Jian Gu, Zimin Chen, Martin MonperrusTSE 2022 On the Effectiveness of Transfer Learning for Code Search
Pasquale Salza, Christoph Schwizer, Jian Gu, Harald C. GallTSE 2021 Automated Classification of Overfitting Patches with Statically Extracted Code Features
He Ye, Jian Gu, Matias Martinez, Thomas Durieux, Martin Monperrus
