Training Dynamics of Neural Software Defect Predictors under Coupled Data-Quality Issues
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Title:Training Dynamics of Neural Software Defect Predictors under Coupled Data-Quality Issues
Abstract:Context: Software defect prediction supports maintenance decisions such as testing prioritization, release-risk assessment, and quality monitoring. However, metric-based SDP datasets often contain coupled data-quality issues, especially class imbalance and class overlap. Prior work has mainly measured their impact through endpoint performance, while recent evidence suggests that such issues may also appear in neural training dynamics (gradients, weights, biases, error trajectories). However, these studies examine issues in isolation, leaving open how internal neural network training patterns manifest when data quality issues are coupled.
Objective: We investigate how training-dynamics patterns from class imbalance, overlap, and their coupling can be characterized under interaction-aware conditions in deep learning-based SDP.
Method: We conduct a controlled intervention study on class-level UBD datasets, training a fixed MLP under imbalance-only, overlap-only, and joint conditions across five seeds. Training dynamics are logged per epoch; fidelity is monitored via coupling ratios. Patterns are characterized using effect sizes, trajectories, sensitivity analyses, and rule-based classification.
Expected contribution: The study will produce an interaction-aware empirical protocol and a candidate taxonomy of training-dynamics patterns for coupled data-quality issues in metric-based SDP.
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2606.24968 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2606.24968v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.24968
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From: Emmanuel Charleson Dapaah [view email][v1] Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:08:55 UTC (124 KB)
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