Publications

Notes: + equal contribution; S students under my supervisor/mentor;


Journal Papers

Venue Year Title
TOSEM 2025 Toward Reliable Evaluation of Neural Program Repair with Natural Robustness Testing
Thanh Le-Cong, Dat Nguyen, Bach Le, Toby Murray
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SQJ 2025 Adversarial Patch Generation for Automated Program Repair
Abdulaziz Alhefdhi, Hoa Khanh Dam, Thanh Le-Cong, Bach Le, Aditya Ghose
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TOSEM 2024 Refining ChatGPT-Generated Code: Characterizing and Mitigating Code Quality Issues
Yue Liu, Thanh Le-Cong, Ratnadira Widyasari, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Li Li, Bach Le, David Lo
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JF Presented at Journal-First Track of FSE 2025
TSE 2024 Leveraging Large Language Models for Automatic Patch Correctness Assessment
Xin Zhou, Bowen Xu, Kisub Kim, DongGyun Han, Hung Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Junda He, Bach Le, David Lo
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TSE 2023 Invalidator: Automated Patch Correctness Assessment via Semantic and Syntactic Reasoning
Thanh Le-Cong, Duc-Minh LuongS, Xuan Bach D. Le, David Lo, Nhat-Hoa Tran, Bui Quang-Huy
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JF Presented at Journal-First Track of ICSE 2024
TSE 2023 MiDas: Multi-granularity Model for Vulnerability-fixing Commit Classification
Truong-Giang Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Hong Jin Kang, Ratnadira Widyasari, Chengran Yang, Zhipeng Zhao, Bowen Xu, Jiayuan Zhou, Xin Xia, Ahmed E. Hassan, Bach Le, David Lo
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InfoSys 2020 A multifactorial optimization paradigm for linkage tree genetic algorithm
Thi Thanh Binh Huynh, Dinh Thanh Pham, Ba Trung Tran, Thanh Le-Cong, Minh Hai Phong Le, Ananthram Swami, Thu Lam Bui
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Conference Papers

Venue Year Title
ICSE 2026 How Do Semantically Equivalent Code Transformations Impact Membership Inference on LLMs for Code?
Hua Yang, Alejandro Velasco, Thanh Le-Cong, Md Nazmul Haque, Bowen Xu, Denys Poshyvanyk
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ICSE 2026 Memory-Efficient Large Language Models for Program Repair with Semantic-Guided Patch Generation
Thanh Le-Cong, Bach Le, Toby Murray
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ACL 2025 Can LLMs Reason About Program Semantics? A Comprehensive Evaluation of LLMs on Formal Specification Inference
Thanh Le-Cong, Bach Le, Toby Murray
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ICSME 2025 Toward Realistic Evaluation of Just-In-Time Vulnerability Prediction
Duong NguyenS, Thanh Le-Cong, Triet Huynh Minh Le, M. Ali Babar, Quyet-Thang Huynh
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EASE 2024 LEGION: Harnessing Pre-trained Language Models for GitHub Topic Recommendations with Distribution-Balance Loss
Yen-Trang DangS, Thanh Le-Cong, Phuc-Thanh Nguyen, Anh M. T. Bui, Phuong T. Nguyen, Bach Le
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SANER 2023 Extreme Multi-Label Learning for GitHub Topic Recommendation: How Far Are We?
Ratnadira Widyasari, Zhipeng Zhao, Thanh Le-Cong, Hong Jin Kang, David Lo
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ICSE 2023 Chronos: Time-Aware Zero-Shot Identification of Libraries from Vulnerability Reports
Yunbo Lyu+, Thanh Le-Cong+, Hong Jin Kang, Ratnadira Widyasari, Zhipeng Zhao, Bach Le, Ming Li, David Lo
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FSE 2022 AutoPruner: Transformer-based Call Graph Pruning
Thanh Le-Cong, Hong Jin Kang, Truong-Giang Nguyen, Stefanus Agus Haryono, David Lo, Bach Le, Thang Huynh
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ICSME 2022 FFL: Fine-grained Fault Localization for Student Programs via Syntactic and Semantic Reasoning
Thanh-Dat Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Duc-Minh LuongS, Van-Hai Duong, Bach Le, David Lo
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ISSRE 2021 Better Together for Automated Repair of Web Pages
Thanh Le-Cong, Xuan Bach D. Le, Quyet Thang Huynh, Phi Le Nguyen
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Selected Short/Workshop Papers

Venue Year Title
ICSME-Tool 2025 VulGuard: An Unified Tool for Evaluating Just-In-Time Vulnerability Prediction Models
Duong NguyenS, Duc-Manh Tran, Thanh Le-Cong, Triet Huynh Minh Le, M. Ali Babar, Quyet-Thang Huynh
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ASE-NIER 2023 Are We Ready to Embrace Generative AI for Software Q&A?
Bowen Xu, Thanh-Dat Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Thong Hoang, Jiakun Liu, Kisub Kim, Chen Gong, Changan Niu, Chenyu Wang, Bach Le, David Lo
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ICSE-NIER 2022 Towards the Analysis of Graph Neural Networks
Thanh-Dat Nguyen+, Thanh Le-Cong+, ThanhVu H. Nguyen, Bach Le, Quyet-Thang Huynh
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ESEC/FSE-Tool 2022 VulCurator: A Vulnerability Fixing Commit Detector
Truong-Giang Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Hong Jin Kang, Bach Le, David Lo
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Pre-prints

Venue Year Title
arXiv 2025 Signature in Code Backdoor Detection, how far are we?
Quoc Hung LeS, Thanh Le-Cong, Bach Le, Bowen Xu
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arXiv 2025 PatchSeeker: Mapping NVD Records to their Vulnerability-fixing Commits with LLM Generated Commits and Embeddings
Huu Hung NguyenS, Anh Tuan NguyenS, Thanh Le-Cong, Yikun Li, Han Wei Ang, Yide Yin, Frank Liauw, Shar Lwin Khin, Ouh Eng Lieh, Ting Zhang, David Lo
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arXiv 2025 Mapping NVD Records to Their VFCs: An Exploratory Study
Huu-Hung NguyenS, Duc-Manh TranS, Yiran Cheng, Thanh Le-Cong, Hong Jin Kang, Ratnadira Widyasari, Shar Lwin Khin, Ouh Eng Lieh, Ting Zhang, David Lo
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arXiv 2025 From Empirical Evaluation to Context-Aware Enhancement: Repairing Regression Errors with LLMs
Anh HoS, Thanh Le-Cong, Bach Le, Christine Rizkallah
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arXiv 2024 Comparison of static application security testing tools and large language models for repo-level vulnerability detection
Xin Zhou, Duc-Manh TranS, Thanh Le-Cong, Ting Zhang, Ivana Clairine Irsan, Joshua Sumarlin, Bach Le, David Lo
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