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Ensuring code correctness remains a challenging problem even as large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable at code-related tasks. While LLM-based program repair systems can propose bug fixes using only a user's bug report,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Adam Stein , Arthur Wayne , Aaditya Naik , Mayur Naik , Eric Wong

Automated program repair is already deployed in industry, but concerns remain about repair quality. Recent research has shown that one of the main reasons repair tools produce incorrect (but seemingly correct) patches is imperfect fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Manish Motwani , Yuriy Brun

API misuses often lead to software bugs, crashes, and vulnerabilities. While several API misuse detectors have been proposed, there are no automatic repair tools specifically designed for this purpose. In a recent study, test-suite-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Ting Zhang , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ferdian Thung , David Lo , Asankhaya Sharma , Lingxiao Jiang

Despite significant advances in automatic program repair (APR)techniques over the past decade, practical deployment remains an elusive goal. One of the important challenges in this regard is the general inability of current APR techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Seemanta Saha , Ripon K. Saha , Mukul R. Prasad

Language models have improved by orders of magnitude with the recent emergence of Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs have demonstrated their ability to generate natural code that is highly similar to code written by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Aidan Z. H. Yang , Sophia Kolak , Vincent J. Hellendoorn , Ruben Martins , Claire Le Goues

In supporting the development of high-quality software, especially necessary in the era of LLMs, automated program repair (APR) tools aim to improve code quality by automatically addressing violations detected by static analysis profilers.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Sumudu Liyanage , Sherlock A. Licorish , Markus Wagner , Stephen G. MacDonell

Automatic program repair (APR) techniques have the potential to reduce manual efforts in uncovering and repairing program defects during the code review (CR) process. However, the limited accuracy and considerable time costs associated with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Zelin Zhao , Zhaogui Xu , Jialong Zhu , Peng Di , Yuan Yao , Xiaoxing Ma

Accelerating inexact string matching procedures is of utmost importance when dealing with practical applications where huge amount of data must be processed in real time, as usual in bioinformatics or cybersecurity. Inexact matching…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Alessandro Cinti , Filippo Maria Bianchi , Alessio Martino , Antonello Rizzi

Current automated program repair (APR) techniques are far from being practical and useful enough to be considered for realistic debugging. They rely on unrealistic assumptions including the requirement of a comprehensive suite of test cases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Qi Xin , Haojun Wu , Steven P. Reiss , Jifeng Xuan

[...] Since then, various APR approaches, especially those leveraging the power of large language models (LLMs), have been rapidly developed to fix general software bugs. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of these advanced techniques in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Anh Ho , Thanh Le-Cong , Bach Le , Christine Rizkallah

Learning-based automated vulnerability repair (AVR) techniques that utilize fine-tuned language models have shown promise in generating vulnerability patches. However, questions remain about their ability to repair unseen vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Woorim Han , Yeongjun Kwak , Miseon Yu , Kyeongmin Kim , Younghan Lee , Hyungon Moon , Yunheung Paek

Software vulnerabilities continue to be ubiquitous, even in the era of AI-powered code assistants, advanced static analysis tools, and the adoption of extensive testing frameworks. It has become apparent that we must not simply prevent…

Automated Program Repair has attracted significant research in recent years, leading to diverse techniques that focus on two main directions: search-based and semantic-based program repair. The former techniques often face challenges due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Abdulaziz Alhefdhi , Hoa Khanh Dam , Thanh Le-Cong , Bach Le , Aditya Ghose

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in downstream software engineering tasks such as Automated Program Repair (APR). In particular, there has been a lot of research on repository-level issue-resolution benchmarks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Anvith Pabba , Alex Mathai , Anindya Chakraborty , Baishakhi Ray

Automated program repair (APR) has shown promising results, particularly with the use of neural networks. Currently, most APR tools focus on code transformations specified by test suites, rather than reasoning about the program intent and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 He Ye , Aidan Z. H. Yang , Chang Hu , Yanlin Wang , Tao Zhang , Claire Le Goues

Due to its potential to improve programmer productivity and software quality, automated program repair has been an active topic of research. Newer techniques harness neural networks to learn directly from examples of buggy programs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Marko Vasic , Aditya Kanade , Petros Maniatis , David Bieber , Rishabh Singh

With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), traditional Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques have undergone significant transformation. Training-free approaches, such as zero-shot and few-shot prompting, are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Haichuan Hu , Ye Shang , Weifeng Sun , Quanjun Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential for automated program repair (APR). However, existing LLM-based techniques primarily rely on coarse-grained external feedback (e.g.,test results) to guide iterative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiaolong Kong , Xiaofei Xie , Yiheng Xiong , Yuekun Wang , Jian Wang

Software bugs pose an ever-present concern for developers, and patching such bugs requires a considerable amount of costs through complex operations. In contrast, introducing bugs can be an effortless job, in that even a simple mutation can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jinhan Kim , Jongchan Park , Shin Yoo

Assessing the correctness of patches generated by Automated Program Repair (APR) is a major bottleneck. Manual validation is labor-intensive and limited: exact matching overlooks valid variants, while semantic inspection is subjective and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sahand Moslemi , Mayasah Lami , Anil Koyuncu