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Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved automated code generation. While existing approaches have achieved strong performance at the function and file levels, real-world software engineering requires…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yicheng Tao , Yuante Li , Yao Qin , Yepang Liu

Code search is a task to find programming codes that semantically match the given natural language queries. Even though some of the existing datasets for this task are multilingual on the programming language side, their query data are only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ryo Sekizawa , Nan Duan , Shuai Lu , Hitomi Yanaka

Since the rise of neural natural-language-to-code models (NL->Code) that can generate long expressions and statements rather than a single next-token, one of the major problems has been reliably evaluating their generated output. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Shuyan Zhou , Uri Alon , Sumit Agarwal , Graham Neubig

Repository-level code generation remains challenging due to complex code dependencies and the limitations of large language models (LLMs) in processing long contexts. While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks are widely adopted,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Wenchao Gu , Juntao Chen , Yanlin Wang , Tianyue Jiang , Xingzhe Li , Mingwei Liu , Xilin Liu , Yuchi Ma , Zibin Zheng

Repository-level code completion remains a challenging task for existing code large language models (code LLMs) due to their limited understanding of repository-specific context and domain knowledge. While retrieval-augmented generation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Tianyue Jiang , Yanli Wang , Yanlin Wang , Daya Guo , Ensheng Shi , Yuchi Ma , Jiachi Chen , Zibin Zheng

In this paper, we introduce CoRet, a dense retrieval model designed for code-editing tasks that integrates code semantics, repository structure, and call graph dependencies. The model focuses on retrieving relevant portions of a code…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Fabio Fehr , Prabhu Teja Sivaprasad , Luca Franceschi , Giovanni Zappella

In today's software world with its cornucopia of reusable software libraries, when a programmer is faced with a programming task that they suspect can be completed through the use of a library, they often look for code examples using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Geert Heyman , Rafael Huysegems , Pascal Justen , Tom Van Cutsem

Reimplementing solutions to previously solved software engineering problems is not only inefficient but also introduces inadequate and error-prone code. Many existing methods achieve impressive performance on this issue by using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Usama Nadeem , Noah Ziems , Shaoen Wu

Despite recent advances, Large Language Models (LLMs) still generate vulnerable code. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has the potential to enhance LLMs for secure code generation by incorporating external security knowledge. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiahao Shi , Tianyi Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Code-LLMs (CLLMs) have significantly improved code generation, but, they frequently face difficulties when dealing with challenging and complex problems. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) addresses this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Iman Saberi , Fatemeh Fard

Ensuring that code accurately reflects the algorithms and methods described in research papers is critical for maintaining credibility and fostering trust in AI research. This paper presents a novel system designed to verify code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Rajat Keshri , Arun George Zachariah , Michael Boone

Code search, framed as information retrieval (IR), underpins modern software engineering and increasingly powers retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), improving code discovery, reuse, and the reliability of LLM-based coding. Yet existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jiahui Geng , Qing Li , Fengyu Cai , Fakhri Karray

As text and code resources have expanded, large-scale pre-trained models have shown promising capabilities in code generation tasks, typically employing supervised fine-tuning with problem statement-program pairs. However, increasing model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Nathanaël Beau , Benoît Crabbé

Code Search is a key task that many programmers often have to perform while developing solutions to problems. Current methodologies suffer from an inability to perform accurately on prompts that contain some ambiguity or ones that require…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Sarthak Jain , Aditya Dora , Ka Seng Sam , Prabhat Singh

(Source) code search is widely concerned by software engineering researchers because it can improve the productivity and quality of software development. Given a functionality requirement usually described in a natural language sentence, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Yifei Ge , Yuling Hu , Yuchen Chen , Quanjun Zhang , Xiuting Ge , Yang Liu , Zhenyu Chen

Thanks to unprecedented language understanding and generation capabilities of large language model (LLM), Retrieval-augmented Code Generation (RaCG) has recently been widely utilized among software developers. While this has increased…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Geonmin Kim , Jaeyeon Kim , Hancheol Park , Wooksu Shin , Tae-Ho Kim

Recent advancements in code-fluent Large Language Models (LLMs) enabled the research on repository-level code editing. In such tasks, the model navigates and modifies the entire codebase of a project according to request. Hence, such tasks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Alexander Kovrigin , Aleksandra Eliseeva , Yaroslav Zharov , Timofey Bryksin

Code retrieval helps developers reuse the code snippet in the open-source projects. Given a natural language description, code retrieval aims to search for the most relevant code among a set of code. Existing state-of-the-art approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Qihao Zhu , Zeyu Sun , Xiran Liang , Yingfei Xiong , Lu Zhang

Inspired by the great success of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in natural language processing (NLP), DNNs have been increasingly applied in source code analysis and attracted significant attention from the software engineering community. Due…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Zeming Dong , Qiang Hu , Yuejun Guo , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Zhenya Zhang , Yves Le Traon , Jianjun Zhao

Software developers frequently reuse source code from repositories as it saves development time and effort. Code clones accumulated in these repositories hence represent often repeated functionalities and are candidates for reuse in an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Muhammad Hammad , Önder Babur , Hamid Abdul Basit