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Sven Apel

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Jul 2026

Predicting Program Comprehension with Foundation Models of Human Cognition

Centaur, a foundation model trained on 160 general psychological experiments, is evaluated and it is found that Centaur more closely aligns with human response patterns than its base model, is significantly less reliant on information from prior trials and responses, and benefits more from task-related information.

Yannick Lehmen, Marvin Wyrich, Anna-Maria Maurer et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

A Mechanistic Lens on Semantic Conflicts: Using Activation Patching to Understand LLM Behavior

The findings show that semantic conflicts affect program comprehension and downstream tasks, with relevant information concentrated in a small number of causally active residual-stream states, and demonstrate a framework for mechanistically analyzing how LLMs integrate code-related information under controlled semantic...

Youssef Abdelsalam, Norman Peitek, Anna-Maria Maurer et al. · 2 citations

A Facet-Based Perspective on Code 1 Comprehension Task Design for Empirical Research

This work introduces a facet-based perspective that distinguishes between analytical skills, abstraction, and critical evaluation and proposes a method to guide researchers from research goals to concrete tasks and study design, including considerations for question formulation and response formats.

Luisa Bartl, Marvin Wyrich, Sven Apel et al. · 0 citations

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