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#data science Open access Oct 2026

Nursing education for the 21st century: an analysis of blended learning to teach clinical skills to 2nd year adult nursing students

There are competency requirements identified by the regulatory body that nurses must meet when they complete a preregistration programme. Subsequently, nurse educators must ensure that student nurses acquire and retain the relevant theory and practice of core clinical skills, to prepare them for registration. The teach...

Deborah Rainey · 0 citations
#data science Open access Oct 2026

Intervention development, process evaluation and feasibility study of a home and school positive behaviour management programme in Northern Irish pre-school settings

Background Research denotes that problematic child behaviour can impact negatively upon caregiver well-being. Decreased well-being increases use of harsh and punitive discipline measures with such measures exacerbating negative child behaviour, and; thus, negative cycles are created. Evidence suggests that intervention...

Sarah Patterson · 0 citations
#reinforcement learning Open access Oct 2026

From Greedy Steps to Global Optimization: Learning Sequential Test Suite Generation

With the rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs), automated software testing is witnessing a paradigm shift. While proprietary models like GPT-4o demonstrate impressive capabilities, their high deployment costs and data privacy concerns make open-source LLMs the practical imperative for many academic and indust...

Guo-Qing Wang, Cheng-Ran Yang, Xiao-Xuan Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#large language models Open access Oct 2026

Test vs Mutant: Adversarial LLM Agents for Robust Unit Test Generation

Software testing is a critical, yet resource-intensive phase of the software development lifecycle. Search-based approaches typically achieve high coverage but produce tests with low readability, whereas large language model (LLM)-based methods generate more human-readable tests but often suffer from low coverage and c...

Pengyu Chang, Yixiong Fang, SILIN CHEN et al. · 0 citations
#large language models Open access Oct 2026

On the Evaluation of Large Language Models in Unit Test Evolution (Experience Paper)

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown promising potential in automating unit test evolution for evolving software systems. However, the effectiveness of LLMs in unit test evolution remains insufficiently understood, particularly with respect to prompt design choices, in-context learning (ICL) strategies, and...

Wei-Chang Liu, Jun-Wei Zhang, Yu-Qing Niu et al. · 0 citations
#large language models Open access Oct 2026

Code–Test Co-translation: Towards Practical and Effective Program Migration in the Wild

Program migration, which involves translating software systems from one programming language to another, is essential for modernizing legacy systems and improving maintainability. Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in code translation; however, existing methods and benchmarks still...

Xitao Li, Xiaofei Xie, Jianmin Wu et al. · 1 citation
#large language models Open access Oct 2026

Compiling Large Multi-modal Requirement Documents into Runnable Software Systems: From an Agentic Test-Driven Perspective

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved programming efficiency by parsing natural language into code snippets. However, their performance degrades significantly as requirements scale; when faced with multi-modal documents containing hundreds of scenarios, LLMs often produce incorrect implementations or...

Weiyu Kong, Yun Lin, Xiwen Teoh et al. · 1 citation
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Oct 2026

Understanding Student Use of Large Language Models Across Computer Science Subfields

This research full paper examines how undergraduate students use large language models (LLMs) across computer science subfields. As LLMs become increasingly integrated into computing education, understanding how their use varies across technical and pedagogical contexts is essential for designing effective, subfield-aw...

S. Nizamani, Yoonjeong Lee, Nikitha Donekal Chandrashekar et al. · 0 citations

AuraForge: Scaling Security Supervision for Training Coding Agents

Coding agents are now proficient enough to generate complex software applications from a single prompt. As their capabilities have grown, human oversight has increasingly shifted from line-by-line code review toward hands-off evaluation of outcomes. However, recent studies have shown that such a transition exposes a cr...

Dan-Qing Wang, Song-Wen Zhao, Harsh Sharma et al. · 0 citations

AutoCompact: Learning When to Compact Context in Long-Horizon Coding Agents

Coding agents solve repository-level software engineering tasks through long trajectories of code inspection, search, editing, and testing. As a task progresses, earlier exploration becomes stale, so managing context is more than avoiding overflow: an agent must decide when to compact, what working state to preserve, a...

Xuan Zhang, Long-Tao Zheng, Cun-Xiao Du et al. · 2 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

TRACE: Tackling Real-World Resource Assignment Problems via Agentic Heuristic Design

Dynamic resource assignment, the real-time allocation of task streams to heterogeneous processing nodes, is the backbone of modern computing infrastructure. While learning-based schedulers excel in research, industrial deployments still rely on hand-written rules that operators can read, audit, and execute within tight...

J. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, X. Costa-Pérez · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 2, 2026

Documenting the tech worker movement

Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed.

GPT-Lab Sep 23, 2026

Requirements Don’t Live in Isolation: What We’re Exploring with Req-Space

Requirements in large systems rarely exist in isolation. Their meaning depends on the wider project context - other requirements, policies, decisions, tests, and implementation details. That becomes especially important when AI is used for review, because spotting a possible conflict or gap is only the beginning. ReqSpace explores how AI, visualisation, and connected project context can help reviewers understand those findings, trace the relationships behind them, and focus on the questions that…

GPT-Lab Sep 17, 2026

Beyond Prompt Engineering: The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Software Engineering

AI is making software generation faster, but speed does not remove the need for expertise. As more work is delegated to AI, tacit knowledge may become one of the most important human advantages in software engineering. The post Beyond Prompt Engineering: The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Software Engineering appeared first on GPT-Lab.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Aug 17, 2026

Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

In his latest book, Professor Eugene Fitzgerald examines the forces that turn breakthroughs into value — and why innovation resists simple formulas.

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