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GraphCue for SDN Configuration Code Synthesis

Software Engineering 2026-03-03 v1

Abstract

We present GraphCue, a topology-grounded retrieval and agent-in-the-loop framework for automated SDN configuration. Each case is abstracted into a JSON graph and embedded using a lightweight three-layer GCN trained with contrastive learning. The nearest validated reference is injected into a structured prompt that constrains code generation, while a verifier closes the loop by executing the candidate configuration and feeding failures back to the agent. On 628 validation cases, GraphCue achieves an 88.2 percent pass rate within 20 iterations and completes 95 percent of verification loops within 9 seconds. Ablation studies without retrieval or structured prompting perform substantially worse, indicating that topology-aware retrieval and constraint-based conditioning are key drivers of performance.

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@article{arxiv.2512.17371,
  title  = {GraphCue for SDN Configuration Code Synthesis},
  author = {Haomin Qi and Fengfei Yu and Chengbo Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.17371},
  year   = {2026}
}

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2 pages, 2 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:33:05.207Z