Papers by Tien N Nguyen
VisualCoder: Guiding Large Language Models in Code Execution with Fine-grained Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to enhance large language models' ability to predict program behavior struggle with dynamic reasoning tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a visual control flow graph that integrates CoT reasoning with a control flow . they aim to improve performance in program behavior prediction, error detection and output generation . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves program behavior prediction, error detection, and output generation. |
LEANCODE: Understanding Models Better for Code Simplification of Pre-trained Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models often require significant computational resources, often constraining input word or code token lengths. |
| Approach: | They propose to use the encoder-decoder attention scores to represent the importance of a code token across multiple contexts to reduce training and prediction time. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms the SOTAs DietCode and SlimCode in code search and summarization tasks. |