Publications

Peer-reviewed papers and preprints.

Peer-reviewed

2026

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

TSE'26 (CCF A) IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 2026, Just Accepted

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

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

ICPC'26 (CCF B) 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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2025

LogUpdater: Automated Detection and Repair of Specific Defects in Logging Statements

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

TOSEM'25 (CCF A) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 35(1), Article 16, January 2026

[Paper]

KPIRoot+: An Efficient Integrated Framework for Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis in Large-Scale Cloud Systems

Wenwei Gu, Renyi Zhong, Guangba Yu, Xinying Sun, Jinyang Liu, Yintong Huo, Zhuangbin Chen, Jianping Zhang, Jiazhen Gu, Yongqiang Yang, Michael R. Lyu

EMSE'25 (CCF B) Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) 2025

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

TOSEM'25 (CCF A) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2025, Just Accepted

[Paper]

Cordial: Cross-row Failure Prediction Method Based on Bank-level Error Locality for HBMs

Wenwei Gu, Jiazhen Gu, Renyi Zhong, Wenyu Zhang, Ming Li, Michael R. Lyu

DSN'25 (CCF B) 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Industry Track 2025, Naples, Italy

[Paper]

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

FSE'25 (CCF A) ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2025, Trondheim, Norway

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Towards Quality Assurance of Natural Language in Code

Renyi Zhong

ICSE'25 (CCF A) Doctoral Symposium, 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-DS) 2025, Ottawa, Canada

[Paper]

2024

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

TSE'24 (CCF A) IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 2024

[Paper]

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

FSE'24 (CCF A) ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2024, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil

[Paper]

Knowledge-aware Alert Aggregation in Large-scale Cloud Systems: A Hybrid Approach

Jinxi Kuang, Jinyang Liu, Junjie Huang, Renyi Zhong, Jiazhen Gu, Lan Yu, Rui Tan, Zengyin Yang, Michael R. Lyu

ICSE-SEIP'24 (CCF A) International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP) 2024

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2021

Automatic Trend Analysis of Mobile App Updates Based on App Changelogs

Renyi Zhong, Chong Wang, Peng Liang, Zhong Luo

CRAD'21 (CCF T1) Journal of Computer Research and Development 2021, 58(4)

[Paper]

Preprints

Single-Language Evidence Is Insufficient for Automated Logging: A Multilingual Benchmark and Empirical Study with LLMs

Renyi Zhong, Yichen Li, Yulun Wu, Jinxi Kuang, Yintong Huo, Michael R. Lyu

TOSEM (Under Review) Under review at ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

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Towards Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks for Time Series Classification with Local Perturbations and Frequency Analysis

Wenwei Gu, Renyi Zhong, Jianping Zhang, Michael R. Lyu

Preprint Preprint 2025

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