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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into software development processes. The ability to generate code and submit pull requests with minimal human intervention, through the use of autonomous AI agents, is poised to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Miku Watanabe , Hao Li , Yutaro Kashiwa , Brittany Reid , Hajimu Iida , Ahmed E. Hassan

Agent-based program repair offers to automatically resolve complex bugs end-to-end by combining the planning, tool use, and code generation abilities of modern LLMs. Recent work has explored the use of agent-based repair approaches on the…

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AI agents have recently shown significant promise in software engineering. Much public attention has been transfixed on the topic of code generation from Large Language Models (LLMs) via a prompt. However, software engineering is much more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Abhik Roychoudhury

Autonomous coding agents are increasingly deployed as AI teammates in modern software engineering, independently authoring pull requests (PRs) that modify production code at scale. This study aims to systematically characterize how…

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Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the automation of software development tasks, including code synthesis, program repair, and test generation. More recently, researchers and industry…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Yinlin Deng , Soren Dunn , Lingming Zhang

Performance optimization is a critical yet challenging aspect of software development, often requiring a deep understanding of system behavior, algorithmic tradeoffs, and careful code modifications. Although recent advances in AI coding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Huiyun Peng , Antonio Zhong , Ricardo Andrés Calvo Méndez , Kelechi G. Kalu , James C. Davis

GenAI-based coding assistants have disrupted software development. The next generation of these tools is agent-based, operating with more autonomy and potentially without human oversight. Like human developers, AI agents require contextual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi , Matthias Galster , Christoph Treude , Sebastian Baltes

Performance bugs are inefficiencies in software that waste computational resources without causing functional failures, making them particularly challenging to detect and fix. While recent advances in Software Engineering agents have shown…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Spandan Garg , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam , Neel Sundaresan

Coding agents are increasingly deployed to autonomously maintain software, including to resolve user-reported issues: a bug report comes in and the agent creates a patch to address it. However, in any real-world deployment, they will…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Thibaud Gloaguen , Niels Mündler , Mark Müller , Veselin Raychev , Martin Vechev

Simulating and predicting planetary-scale techno-social systems poses heavy computational and modeling challenges. The DARPA SocialSim program set the challenge to model the evolution of GitHub, a large collaborative software-development…

The rise of large language models for code has reshaped software development. Autonomous coding agents, able to create branches, open pull requests, and perform code reviews, now actively contribute to real-world projects. Their growing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Razvan Mihai Popescu , David Gros , Andrei Botocan , Rahul Pandita , Prem Devanbu , Maliheh Izadi

As autonomous coding agents see rapid adoption, their evaluation has primarily focused on task completion rates holding the target codebase fixed. This leaves a critical question unanswered: does the structural and stylistic quality, or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Priyansh Trivedi , Olivier Schmitt

AI coding agents are now submitting pull requests (PRs) to software projects, acting not just as assistants but as autonomous contributors. As these agentic contributions are rapidly increasing across real repositories, little is known…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ramtin Ehsani , Sakshi Pathak , Shriya Rawal , Abdullah Al Mujahid , Mia Mohammad Imran , Preetha Chatterjee

Rigorous software testing is crucial for developing and maintaining high-quality code, making automated test generation a promising avenue for both improving software quality and boosting the effectiveness of code generation methods.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Niels Mündler , Mark Niklas Müller , Jingxuan He , Martin Vechev

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for automated patching, but their effectiveness depends strongly on how they are integrated into patching systems. While prior work explores prompting strategies and individual agent designs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Qingxiao Xu , Ze Sheng , Zhicheng Chen , Jeff Huang

Code review is a critical software engineering practice where developers review code changes before integration to ensure code quality, detect defects, and improve maintainability. In recent years, AI agents that can understand code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Suzhen Zhong , Shayan Noei , Ying Zou , Bram Adams

Agent skills, structured procedural knowledge packages injected at inference time, are increasingly used to augment LLM agents on software engineering tasks. However, their real utility in end-to-end development settings remains unclear. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tingxu Han , Yi Zhang , Wei Song , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen , Youcheng Sun , Lijie Hu

We ask whether agentic AI systems built for software engineering transfer to realistic hardware engineering. Existing hardware LLM benchmarks isolate sub-tasks but none jointly requires repository navigation, hierarchy-aware localization,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Qingyun Zou , Feng Yu , Hongshi Tan , Bingsheng He , WengFai Wong

SWE-Bench-Verified, a dataset comprising 500 issues, serves as a de facto benchmark for evaluating various large language models (LLMs) on their ability to resolve GitHub issues. But this benchmark may overlap with model training data. If…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Thanosan Prathifkumar , Noble Saji Mathews , Meiyappan Nagappan

Software is one of the most powerful tools that we humans have at our disposal; it allows a skilled programmer to interact with the world in complex and profound ways. At the same time, thanks to improvements in large language models…