Publications · Yichen Li

ASE'26

AutoSQL: Extracting SQL Templates from Imperative ORM Code in Large-Scale Repositories

Junsong Pu, Yichen Li^#, Zhuangbin Chen^#

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

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ASE'26 Tool

TypeScript Repository Indexing for Code Agent Retrieval

Junsong Pu, Yichen Li, Zhuangbin Chen

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (Tool Demonstration Track)

TOSEM

AutoScope: Code Knowledge Enhanced Span-level Sampling for Distributed Tracing

Yulun Wu, Guangba Yu, Zhihan Jiang, Yichen Li, Michael R. Lyu

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

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ACL'26 Findings

Understanding Secret Leakage Risks in Code LLMs: A Tokenization Perspective

Meifang Chen, Zhe Yang, Huang Nianchen, Yizhan Huang, Yichen Li, Zihan Li, Michael R. Lyu

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, California, USA

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FSE'26

One Size Does Not Fit All: Revisiting Code Context Engineering for Repository-Level Code Generation

Yichen Li, Qiye Lin, Yun Peng, Zhihan Jiang, Jinyang Liu, Chaozheng Wang, Yintong Huo, Cuiyun Gao

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Montreal, Canada

FSE'26

Cascaded Code Editing: Large-Small Model Collaboration for Effective and Efficient Code Editing

Chaozheng Wang, Zezhou Yang, Shuzheng Gao, Cuiyun Gao, Zongjie Li, Yichen Li, Ting Peng, Hailiang Huang, Yuetang Deng, Michael R. Lyu

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Montreal, Canada

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EuroSys'26

Proactive Change Risk Detection in Production Cloud Systems: ByteDance Experience

Jinyang Liu, Yichen Li, Tieying Zhang, Binbin Chen, Xiao He, Zhihan Jiang, Haipeng Zhang, Gang Wu, Yi Li

The European Conference on Computer Systems, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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ICPC'26

AutoLogger: A Multi-Agent Framework for the End-to-End Automated Logging

Renyi Zhong, Yintong Huo, Wenwei Gu, Yichen Li^#, Michael R. Lyu

The 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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TSE

CCISolver: End-to-End Detection and Repair of Method-Level Code-Comment Inconsistency

Renyi Zhong, Yintong Huo, Wenwei Gu, Jinxi Kuang, Zhihan Jiang, Guangba Yu, Yichen Li^#, David Lo, Michael R. Lyu

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (Journal-First)

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ASE'25

Automated Proactive Logging Quality Improvement for Large-Scale Codebases

Yichen Li, Jinyang Liu, Junsong Pu, Zhihan Jiang, Zhuangbin Chen, Xiao He, Tieying Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Yi Li, Rui Shi, Michael R. Lyu

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea

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ASE'25

ErrorPrism: Reconstructing Error Propagation Paths in Cloud Service Systems

Junsong Pu, Yichen Li, Zhuangbin Chen, Jinyang Liu, Zhihan Jiang, Jianjun Chen, Rui Shi, Zibin Zheng, Tieying Zhang

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea

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ASE'25

LogPilot: Intent-aware and Scalable Alert Diagnosis for Large-scale Online Service Systems

Zhihan Jiang, Jinyang Liu, Yichen Li, Haiyu Huang, Xiao He, Tieying Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Yi Li, Rui Shi, Michael R. Lyu

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea

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ASE-NIER'25

Exploring Autonomous Agents: A Closer Look at Why They Fail When Completing Tasks

Ruofan Lu, Yichen Li, Yintong Huo

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea

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PACMI'25

Intent-based System Design and Operation

Vaastav Anand, Yichen Li, Alok Gautam Kumbhare, Celine Irvene, Chetan Bansal, Gagan Somashekar, Jonathan Mace, Pedro Las-Casas, Rodrigo Fonseca

Practical Adoption Challenges of ML for Systems (co-located with SOSP)

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DSN'25

LLMPrism: Black-box Performance Diagnosis for Production LLM Training Platforms

Zhihan Jiang, Rui Ren, Guangba Yu, Yulun Wu, Wenwei Gu, Yichen Li, Yujie Huang, Cong Feng, Zengyin Yang, Yongqiang Yang, Michael R. Lyu

the 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Naples, Italy

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ICSE'25

COCA: Generative Root Cause Analysis for Distributed Systems with Code Knowledge

Yichen Li, Yulun Wu, Jinyang Liu, Zhihan Jiang, Zhuangbin Chen, Guangba Yu, Michael R. Lyu

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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FSE'25

COFFE: A Code Efficiency Benchmark for Code Generation

Yun Peng, Jun Wan, Yichen Li, Xiaoxue Ren

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Trondheim, Norway

🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

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FSE'25

L4: Diagnosing Large-scale LLM Training Failures via Automated Log Analysis

Zhihan Jiang, Junjie Huang, Guangba Yu, Zhuangbin Chen, Yichen Li, Renyi Zhong, Cong Feng, Yongqiang Yang, Zengyin Yang, Michael R. Lyu

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Trondheim, Norway

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FSE'25

An Empirical Study of Code Clones from Commercial AI Code Generators

Weibin Wu, Haoxuan Hu, Zhaoji Fan, Yitong Qiao, Yizhan Huang, Yichen Li, Michael R. Lyu

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Trondheim, Norway

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TOSEM

Larger is Not Always Better: Exploring Small Open-Source Language Models in Logging Statement Generation

Renyi Zhong, Yichen Li, Guangba Yu, Wenwei Gu, Jinxi Kuang, Yintong Huo, Michael R. Lyu

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (Journal-First)

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TOSEM

Automated Detection and Repair of Specific Defects in Logging Statements

Renyi Zhong, Yichen Li, Jinxi Kuang, Wenwei Gu, Yintong Huo, Michael R. Lyu

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (Journal-First)

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FSE'24

Go Static: Contextualized Logging Statement Generation

Yichen Li, Yintong Huo, Renyi Zhong, Zhihan Jiang, Jinyang Liu, Junjie Huang, Jiazhen Gu, Pinjia He, Michael R. Lyu

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil

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FSE'24

LILAC: Log Parsing using LLMs with Adaptive Parsing Cache

Zhihan Jiang, Jinyang Liu, Zhuangbin Chen, Yichen Li, Junjie Huang, Yintong Huo, Pinjia He, Jiazhen Gu, Michael R. Lyu

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil

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ICSE-LLM4Code'24

Enhancing LLM-based Coding Tools Through Native Integration of IDE-Derived Static Context

Yichen Li, Yun Peng, Yintong Huo, Michael R. Lyu

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Workshop on Large Language Model for Code, Lisbon, Portugal

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ISSTA'24

A Large-scale Evaluation for Log Parsing Techniques: How Far are We?

Zhihan Jiang, Jinyang Liu, Junjie Huang, Yichen Li, Yintong Huo, Jiazhen Gu, Zhuangbin Chen, Jieming Zhu, Michael R. Lyu

The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Vienna, Austria

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ISSTA'24

Face It Yourselves: An LLM-based Two-Stage Strategy to Localize Configuration Errors via Logs

Shiwen Shan, Yintong Huo, Yuxin Su, Yichen Li, Dan Li, Zibin Zheng

The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Vienna, Austria

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ICSE-SEIP'24

FaultProfIT: Hierarchical Fault Profiling of Incident Tickets in Large-scale Cloud Systems

Junjie Huang, Jinyang Liu, Zhuangbin Chen, Zhihan Jiang, Yichen Li, Jiazhen Gu, Cong Feng, Zengyin Yang, Yongqiang Yang, Michael R. Lyu

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal

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FSE'24

Your Code Secret Belongs to Me: Neural Code Completion Tools Can Memorize Hard-coded Credentials

Yizhan Huang, Yichen Li, Weibin Wu, Jianping Zhang, Michael R. Lyu

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil

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TSE

Exploring the Effectiveness of LLMs in Automated Logging Statement Generation: An Empirical Study

Yichen Li^*, Yintong Huo^*, Zhihan Jiang, Renyi Zhong, Pinjia He, Yuxin Su, Lionel C. Briand, Michael R. Lyu

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (Journal-First)

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ASE'23

AutoLog: A Log Sequence Synthesis Framework for Anomaly Detection

Yintong Huo^*, Yichen Li^*, Yuxin Su, Pinjia He, Zifan Xie, Michael R. Lyu

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Kirchberg, Luxembourg

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TSE

Meta-path based attentional graph learning model for vulnerability detection

Xin-Cheng Wen, Cuiyun Gao, Jiaxin Ye, Yichen Li, Zhihong Tian, Yan Jia, Xuan Wang

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (Journal-First)

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OSR

An Intelligent Framework for Timely, Accurate, and Comprehensive Cloud Incident Detection

Yichen Li, Xu Zhang, Shilin He, Zhuangbin Chen, Yu Kang, Jinyang Liu, Liqun Li, Yingnong Dang, Feng Gao, Zhangwei Xu, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang, Michael R Lyu

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review

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TSE

Revisiting, benchmarking and exploring API recommendation: How far are we?

Yun Peng, Shuqing Li, Wenwei Gu, Yichen Li, Wenxuan Wang, Cuiyun Gao, Michael R Lyu

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (Journal-First)

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