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Vector Graph-Based Repository Understanding for Issue-Driven File Retrieval

Software Engineering 2025-10-13 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We present a repository decomposition system that converts large software repositories into a vectorized knowledge graph which mirrors project architectural and semantic structure, capturing semantic relationships and allowing a significant level of automatization of further repository development. The graph encodes syntactic relations such as containment, implementation, references, calls, and inheritance, and augments nodes with LLM-derived summaries and vector embeddings. A hybrid retrieval pipeline combines semantic retrieval with graph-aware expansion, and an LLM-based assistant formulates constrained, read-only graph requests and produces human-oriented explanations.

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@article{arxiv.2510.08876,
  title  = {Vector Graph-Based Repository Understanding for Issue-Driven File Retrieval},
  author = {Kostiantyn Bevziuk and Andrii Fatula and Svetozar Lashin Yaroslav Opanasenko and Anna Tukhtarova and Ashok Jallepalli Pradeepkumar Sharma and Hritvik Shrivastava},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08876},
  year   = {2025}
}
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