Publications

2026

1. TOSEM

   Delving into History: Retrieve Less but Augment More on Commit Message Generation

   Peng Lan, Jiakun Liu, Xinyu Zhong, Ning Gui, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, and Zhifang Liao

   ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2026

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   @article{lan2026history,
     title = {Delving into History: Retrieve Less but Augment More on Commit Message Generation},
     author = {Lan, Peng and Liu, Jiakun and Zhong, Xinyu and Gui, Ning and Bao, Lingfeng and Lo, David and Liao, Zhifang},
     journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology},
     year = {2026},
     doi = {10.1145/3794857},
   }

2. TOSEM

   Code Refinement with Repository Context: How Far are We?

   Ke Wang, Peng Lan, Jiakun Liu, Shengbing Ren, Lingfeng Bao, Junxiao Han, David Lo, and Zhifang Liao

   ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2026

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   @article{wang2026refinement,
     title = {Code Refinement with Repository Context: How Far are We?},
     author = {Wang, Ke and Lan, Peng and Liu, Jiakun and Ren, Shengbing and Bao, Lingfeng and Han, Junxiao and Lo, David and Liao, Zhifang},
     journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology},
     year = {2026},
     doi = {10.1145/3820059},
   }

3. ACL Findings

   Learning from Failures: Error Notebook-guided Secure Code Generation

   Xinyu Zhong, Peng Lan, and Zhifang Liao

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, 2026

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   @inproceedings{zhong2026failures,
     title = {Learning from Failures: Error Notebook-guided Secure Code Generation},
     author = {Zhong, Xinyu and Lan, Peng and Liao, Zhifang},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026},
     pages = {23978--23990},
     year = {2026},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2026.findings-acl.1200},
   }

2025

1. ICPC

   Cmdesum: A Cross-Modal Deliberation Network for Code Summarization

   Zhifang Liao, Xiaoyu Liu, Peng Lan, Song Yu, and Pei Liu

   In 2025 IEEE/ACM 33rd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2025

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   @inproceedings{liao2025cmdesum,
     title = {Cmdesum: A Cross-Modal Deliberation Network for Code Summarization},
     author = {Liao, Zhifang and Liu, Xiaoyu and Lan, Peng and Yu, Song and Liu, Pei},
     booktitle = {2025 IEEE/ACM 33rd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)},
     pages = {250--261},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.1109/ICPC66645.2025.00034},
   }

2024

1. APSEC

   Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Automatic Pull Request Title Generation: An Empirical Study

   Yitao Zuo, Peng Lan, and Zhifang Liao

   In 2024 31st Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), 2024

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   @inproceedings{zuo2024pullrequest,
     title = {Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Automatic Pull Request Title Generation: An Empirical Study},
     author = {Zuo, Yitao and Lan, Peng and Liao, Zhifang},
     booktitle = {2024 31st Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)},
     pages = {191--200},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {IEEE},
     doi = {10.1109/APSEC65559.2024.00030},
   }