LLMs match or exceed state-of-the-art traditional methods for stabilizing numerical expressions in scientific software, succeeding on 97.9% of expressions where baselines fail to improve accuracy, but struggle with control flow and high-precision literals.
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Assessing Large Language Models for Stabilizing Numerical Expressions in Scientific Software
LLMs match or exceed state-of-the-art traditional methods for stabilizing numerical expressions in scientific software, succeeding on 97.9% of expressions where baselines fail to improve accuracy, but struggle with control flow and high-precision literals.