Programmer Attention

  • Vanderbilt University

    Enhancing Code LLM Training with Programmer Attention

    Zhang, Yifan, Huang, Chen, Karas, Zachary, Nguyen, Thuy Dung, Leach, Kevin, & Huang, Yu. (2025). Enhancing Code LLM Training with Programmer Attention. Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1145/3696630.3728510 Human attention, such as where programmers look while reading… Read More

    Sep. 26, 2025

  • Vanderbilt University

    Programmer Visual Attention During Context-Aware Code Summarization

    Wallace, Robert; Bansal, Aakash; Karas, Zachary; Tang, Ningzhi; Huang, Yu; Li, Toby Jia-Jun; McMillan, Collin. “Programmer Visual Attention During Context-Aware Code Summarization.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2025). https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2025.3554990.    When programmers write or understand code, they naturally… Read More

    Apr. 23, 2025