Functional and Secure Code Generation with Task Vectors

arXiv:2607.07881 · cs.SE, cs.CR, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-07-08 · Read on arXiv

Felix Wang, Anudeep Das, Mei Nagappan, N. Asokan

cs.SE, cs.CR, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-07-08

Code: https://github.com/sahil280114/codealpaca

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Steering — 35× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 21× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Alignment — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computational overhead — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment Techniques — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalizability — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Loss Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AI Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• LoRA Adapters — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Parsimony — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

Sources

• Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
• Constrained Decoding for Secure Code Generation
• Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code
• StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
• Qwen2.5-Coder Technical Report
• CodeGemma: Open Code Models Based on Gemma
• Program Synthesis with Large Language Models
• DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence

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