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Fault Localization (FL) is a key component of Large Language Model (LLM)-based Automated Program Repair (APR), yet its impact remains underexplored. In particular, it is unclear how much localization is needed, whether additional context…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Melika Sepidband , Hung Viet Pham , Hadi Hemmati

This paper presents a novel methodology for enhancing Automated Program Repair (APR) through synthetic data generation utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs). Current APR systems are constrained by the limited availability of high-quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 David de-Fitero-Dominguez , Antonio Garcia-Cabot , Eva Garcia-Lopez

Code performance optimization is paramount in real-world software engineering and critical for production-level systems. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code generation and bug fixing, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xinyi He , Qian Liu , Mingzhe Du , Lin Yan , Zhijie Fan , Yiming Huang , Zejian Yuan , Zejun Ma

Recently, a number of repository-level code generation benchmarks-such as CoderEval, DevEval, RepoEval, RepoBench, and LongCodeArena-have emerged to evaluate the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) beyond standalone benchmarks like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Shanchao Liang , Yiran Hu , Nan Jiang , Lin Tan

Automated program repair has emerged as a powerful technique to mitigate the impact of software bugs on system reliability and user experience. This paper introduces RepairAgent, the first work to address the program repair challenge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Islem Bouzenia , Premkumar Devanbu , Michael Pradel

Language models have been applied to various software development tasks, but the performance varies according to the scale of the models. Large Language Models (LLMs) outperform Small Language Models (SLMs) in complex tasks like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zexiong Ma , Shengnan An , Zeqi Lin , Yanzhen Zou , Bing Xie

Recent advances in leveraging LLMs for APR have demonstrated impressive capabilities in fixing software defects. However, current LLM-based approaches predominantly focus on mainstream programming languages like Java and Python, neglecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wenqiang Luo , Jacky Wai Keung , Boyang Yang , Jacques Klein , Tegawende F. Bissyande , Haoye Tian , Bach Le

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

LLMs have demonstrated significant potential in code generation tasks, achieving promising results at the function or statement level across various benchmarks. However, the complexities associated with creating code artifacts like classes,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Ajinkya Deshpande , Anmol Agarwal , Shashank Shet , Arun Iyer , Aditya Kanade , Ramakrishna Bairi , Suresh Parthasarathy

Large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in code generation tasks, but their performance in tackling programming problems with complex data structures and algorithms remains suboptimal. To address this issue, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Xueyu Hu , Kun Kuang , Jiankai Sun , Hongxia Yang , Fei Wu

Redundancy-based automated program repair (APR), which generates patches by referencing existing source code, has gained much attention since they are effective in repairing real-world bugs with good interpretability. However, since…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiajun Jiang , Fengjie Li , Zijie Zhao , Zhirui Ye , Mengjiao Liu , Bo Wang , Hongyu Zhang , Junjie Chen

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown remarkable progress in code generation, yet their ability to construct complete software repositories from scratch remains poorly understood. A fundamental bottleneck is the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhaoxi Zhang , Yiming Xu , Jiahui Liang , Weikang Li , Xiaoshuai Chen , Liwei Qian , Xin Pei , Jizhou Huang , Run Sun , Yunfang Wu

Though many approaches have been proposed for Automated Program Repair (APR) and indeed achieved remarkable performance, they still have limitations in fixing bugs that require analyzing and reasoning about the logic of the buggy program.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Xin Yin , Chao Ni , Shaohua Wang , Zhenhao Li , Limin Zeng , Xiaohu Yang

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a crucial technique for enhancing the accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external information. With the advent of LLMs that support increasingly longer context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Quinn Leng , Jacob Portes , Sam Havens , Matei Zaharia , Michael Carbin

Recent advances in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have initiated a new era in repository-level code completion. However, the invariable use of retrieval in existing methods exposes issues in both efficiency and robustness, with a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Di Wu , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Dejiao Zhang , Murali Krishna Ramanathan , Xiaofei Ma

GPGPU architectures have become significantly more diverse in recent years, which has led to an emergence of a variety of specialized programming models and software stacks to support them. Portable programming models exist, but they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Joshua H. Davis , Daniel Nichols , Ishan Khillan , Abhinav Bhatele

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for automated vulnerability detection and repair in software systems. This paper investigates the performance of GPT-4o in repairing Java vulnerabilities from a widely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Gábor Antal , Bence Bogenfürst , Rudolf Ferenc , Péter Hegedűs

Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques aim to automatically fix buggy programs. Among these, Large Language Model-based (LLM-based) approaches have shown great promise. Recent advances demonstrate that directly leveraging LLMs can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiayi Zhang , Kai Huang , Jian Zhang , Yang Liu , Chunyang Chen

Among areas of software engineering where AI techniques -- particularly, Large Language Models -- seem poised to yield dramatic improvements, an attractive candidate is Automatic Program Repair (APR), the production of satisfactory…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Li Huang , Ilgiz Mustafin , Marco Piccioni , Alessandro Schena , Reto Weber , Bertrand Meyer