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Hi, I’m a Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science, Peking University. My research focuses on building smarter code language models by integrating programming language structures, enhancing model understanding of software evolution, and improving dataset quality for code tasks.

Education

• Ph.D in Peking University, 09/2022~
  • Supervised by Prof. Lu Zhang
• M.S. in Peking University, 09/2019~06/2022
  • Supervised by Prof. Lian Yu
• B.S. in Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, 09/2015~06/2019

Research Interests

• Code Generation

News

• April, 2022. Our paper on code generation for Python program with SQL statements embedded is accepted to IJCAI-ECAI’22.

Publications

1. [TSE'25] Directional Diffusion-Style Code Editing Pre-training. [CODE] CCF-A
   Qingyuan Liang, Zeyu Sun, Qihao Zhu, Junhao Hu, Yifan Zhao, Yizhou Chen, Mingxuan Zhu, Guoqing Wang, Lu Zhang.
   In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
2. [TOSEM'25] Bipartite-Grammar Aware Pretraining for XML-SQL Code Updating. [CODE] CCF-A
   Qingyuan Liang, Zeyu Sun, Qihao Zhu, Yifan Zhao, Zhihao Gong, Guoqing Wang, Yizhou Chen, Lu Zhang, Guangtai Liang, Qianxiang Wang.
   In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
3. [ACL'25-Finding] Grammar-Based Code Representation: Is It a Worthy Pursuit for LLMs?. [CODE] CCF-A
   Qingyuan Liang, Zhao Zhang, Zeyu Sun, Zheng Lin, Qi Luo, Yueyi Xiao, Yizhou Chen, Yuqun Zhang, Haotian Zhang, Lu Zhang, Bin Chen, Yingfei Xiong.
   In: The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
4. [ICSE'24] GrammarT5: Grammar-Integrated Pretrained Encoder-Decoder Neural Model for Code. CCF-A
   Qihao Zhu, Qingyuan Liang, Zeyu Sun, Yingfei Xiong, Lu Zhang.
   In: 46th International Conference on Software Engineering
5. [ASE'24] Spotting Code Mutation for Predictive Mutation Testing. CCF-A
   Yifan Zhao, Yizhou Chen, Zeyu Sun, Qingyuan Liang, Guoqing Wang, Dan Hao
   In: Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
6. [TOSEM'24] Automatically Learning a Precise Measurement for Fault Diagnosis Capability of Test Cases. CCF-A
   Yifan Zhao, Zeyu Sun, Guoqing Wang, Qingyuan Liang, Yakun Zhang, Yiling Lou, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang
   In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
7. [ISSTA'24] Commit Artifact Preserving Build Prediction. CCF-A
   Guoqing Wang, Zeyu Sun, Yizhou Chen, Yifan Zhao, Qingyuan Liang, Dan Hao
   In: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
8. [TOSEM'24] Is It Hard to Generate Holistic Commit Message?. CCF-A
   Guoqing Wang, Zeyu Sun, Jinhao Dong, Yuxia Zhang, Mingxuan Zhu, Qingyuan Liang, Dan Hao
   In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
9. [IJCAI-ECAI'22] Lyra: A Benchmark for Turducken-Style Code Generation. [PDF] [CODE] CCF-A
   Qingyuan Liang, Zeyu Sun, Qihao Zhu, Wenjie Zhang, Lian Yu, Yingfei Xiong, Lu Zhang.
   In: Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
10. [Sci Sin Inform (Chinese)] A Survey of Deep Learning based Text-to-SQL Generation (in chinese). [PDF] CCF-A
    Qingyuan Liang, Qihao Zhu, Zeyu Sun, Lu Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Yingfei Xiong, Guangtai Liang, and Lian Yu.
    SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis, SSI