Max Hort
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Department
- Data-Driven Software Engineering
- Organisation
- Simula Research Laboratory

- maxh@simula.no
Publications
2025
Proceedings, refereed
M. Hort and L. Moonen
Codehacks: A Dataset of Adversarial Tests for Competitive Programming Problems Obtained From Codeforces
2025 IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST)
M. Hort, L. Vidziunas and L. Moonen
Semantic-Preserving Transformations as Mutation Operators: A Study on Their Effectiveness in Defect Detection
2025 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation - Mutation Workshop
Technical reports
M. Hort and L. Moonen
Codehacks: A Dataset of Adversarial Tests for Competitive Programming Problems Obtained From Codeforces
M. Hort, L. Vidziunas and L. Moonen
Semantic-Preserving Transformations as Mutation Operators: A Study on Their Effectiveness in Defect Detection
F. V. Ruiz, M. Hort and L. Moonen
The Art of Repair: Optimizing Iterative Program Repair With Instruction-Tuned Models
Miscellaneous
M. Hort and L. Moonen
Replication Package for "Codehacks: A Dataset of Adversarial Tests for Competitive Programming Problems Obtained From Codeforces"
F. V. Ruiz, M. Hort and L. Moonen
Replication Package for "The Art of Repair: Optimizing Iterative Program Repair With Instruction-Tuned Models"
2024
Journal Articles
Z. Chen, J. M. Zhang, M. Hort, M. Harman and F. Sarro
Fairness Testing: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of Trends
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
M. Hort, J. M. Zhang, F. Sarro and M. Harman
Search-based Automatic Repair for Fairness and Accuracy in Decision-making Software
Empirical Software Engineering
Proceedings, refereed
M. Hort and L. Moonen
On a Sustainable Training of Large Language Models for Source Code
International Conference on Information and Communications Technology for Sustainability (ICT4S)
M. Astekin, M. Hort and L. Moonen
A Comparative Study on Large Language Models for Log Parsing
18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)
M. Astekin, M. Hort and L. Moonen
An Exploratory Study on How Non-Determinism in Large Language Models Affects Log Parsing
2nd International Workshop on Interpretability, Robustness, and Benchmarking in Neural Software Engineering (InteNSE)
Technical reports
F. V. Ruiz, A. Grishina, M. Hort and L. Moonen
A Novel Approach for Automatic Program Repair using Round-Trip Translation with Large Language Models
2023
Journal Articles
M. Hort, Z. Chen, J. M. Zhang, F. Sarro and M. Harman
Bias Mitigation for Machine Learning Classifiers: A Comprehensive Survey
ACM Journal on Responsible Computing
Proceedings, refereed
M. Hort, R. Moussa and F. Sarro
Multi-objective Search for Gender-fair and Semantically Correct Word Embeddings (HOP GECCO’23)
The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
M. Hort, A. Grishina and L. Moonen
An Exploratory Literature Study on Sharing and Energy Use of Language Models for Source Code
2023 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)
A. Grishina, M. Hort and L. Moonen
The EarlyBIRD Catches the Bug: On Exploiting Early Layers of Encoder Models for More Efficient Code Classification
ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023)
Technical reports
A. Grishina, M. Hort and L. Moonen
The EarlyBIRD Catches the Bug: On Exploiting Early Layers of Encoder Models for More Efficient Code Classification