Large Language Models in Code Co-generation for Safe Autonomous Vehicles
Paper i proceeding, 2026

Software engineers in various industrial domains are already using Large Language Models (LLMs) to accelerate the process of implementing parts of software systems. When considering its potential use for ADAS or AD systems in the automotive context, there is a need to systematically assess this new setup: LLMs entail a well-documented set of risks for safety-related systems’ development due to their stochastic nature. To reduce the effort for code reviewers to evaluate LLM-generated code, we propose an evaluation pipeline to conduct sanity-checks on the generated code. We compare the performance of six state-of-the-art LLMs (CodeLlama, CodeGemma, DeepSeek-r1, DeepSeek-Coders, Mistral, and GPT-4) on four safety-related programming tasks. Additionally, we qualitatively analyse the most frequent faults generated by these LLMs, creating a failure-mode catalogue to support human reviewers. Finally, the limitations and capabilities of LLMs in code generation, and the use of the proposed pipeline in the existing process, are discussed.

Large Language Model

DevOps

Verification

Simulation

Autonomous Driving System

Automated Code Generation

Författare

Ali Nouri

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Volvo Group

Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Göteborgs universitet

Zhennan Fei

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, System- och reglerteknik

Volvo Group

Krishna Ronanki

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Göteborgs universitet

Håkan Sivencrona

Volvo Group

Christian Berger

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

0302-9743 (ISSN) 1611-3349 (eISSN)

Vol. 15954 LNCS 193-208
9783032012401 (ISBN)

44th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, SAFECOMP 2025
Stockholm, Sweden,

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Programvaruteknik

Datorsystem

DOI

10.1007/978-3-032-01241-8_13

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2025-09-05