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An Empirical Study on the Code Refactoring Capability of Large Language Models

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Main Authors:	Cordeiro, Jonathan, Noei, Shayan, Zou, Ying
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Software Engineering
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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