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In recent years, \emph{Reinforcement Learning} (RL) has made remarkable progress, achieving superhuman performance in a wide range of simulated environments. As research moves toward deploying RL in real-world applications, the field faces…

Recent advances in large language model (LLM) agents have shown remarkable progress in software issue resolution, leveraging advanced techniques such as multi-agent collaboration and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). However, current agents…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Silin Chen , Shaoxin Lin , Yuling Shi , Heng Lian , Xiaodong Gu , Longfei Yun , Dong Chen , Lin Cao , Jiyang Liu , Nu Xia , Qianxiang Wang

Existing benchmarks for hardware design primarily evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) on isolated, component-level tasks such as generating HDL modules from specifications, leaving repository-scale evaluation unaddressed. We introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Fan Cui , Hongyuan Hou , Zizhang Luo , Chenyun Yin , Yun Liang

Closed-loop tool-using agents are increasingly evaluated in executable web, code, and micro-task environments, but benchmark reports often conflate workloads, action-generating drivers, and the evidence admitted for systems-facing claims.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zhiqing Zhong , Zhijing Ye , Jiamin Wang , Xiaodong Yu

Large language model (LLM) research in software engineering has largely focused on tasks such as code generation and bug repair. In practice, teams often draft multiple candidate proposals for fixing an issue and then deliberate on one…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Boyin Tan , Haoning Deng , Junyuan Zhang , Junjielong Xu , Pinjia He , Youcheng Sun

While a large number of pre-trained models of source code have been successfully developed and applied to a variety of software engineering (SE) tasks in recent years, our understanding of these pre-trained models is arguably fairly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Changan Niu , Chuanyi Li , Vincent Ng , Dongxiao Chen , Jidong Ge , Bin Luo

Constructing large-scale datasets for the GitHub issue resolution task is crucial for both training and evaluating the software engineering capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the existing GitHub issue resolution data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Lianghong Guo , Yanlin Wang , Caihua Li , Wei Tao , Pengyu Yang , Jiachi Chen , Haoyu Song , Duyu Tang , Zibin Zheng

Repository-level code editing requires models to understand complex dependencies and execute precise multi-file modifications across a large codebase. While recent gains on SWE-bench rely heavily on complex agent scaffolding, it remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Qinglin Zhu , Tianyu Chen , Shuai Lu , Lei Ji , Runcong Zhao , Murong Ma , Xiangxiang Dai , Yulan He , Lin Gui , Peng cheng , Yeyun Gong

GitHub issue resolving is a critical task in software engineering, recently gaining significant attention in both industry and academia. Within this task, SWE-bench has been released to evaluate issue resolving capabilities of large…

In the last decade, several studies have explored automated techniques to estimate the effort of agile software development. We perform a close replication and extension of a seminal work proposing the use of Deep Learning for Agile Effort…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Vali Tawosi , Rebecca Moussa , Federica Sarro

The recent DeepSeek-R1 release has demonstrated the immense potential of reinforcement learning (RL) in enhancing the general reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). While DeepSeek-R1 and other follow-up work primarily focus…

Benchmarks for Software Engineering (SE) AI agents, most notably SWE-bench, have catalyzed progress in programming capabilities of AI agents. However, they overlook critical developer workflows such as Version Control System (VCS)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Tobias Lindenbauer , Egor Bogomolov , Yaroslav Zharov

AI agents have significant potential to reshape cybersecurity, making a thorough assessment of their capabilities critical. However, existing evaluations fall short, because they are based on small-scale benchmarks and only measure static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhun Wang , Tianneng Shi , Jingxuan He , Matthew Cai , Jialin Zhang , Dawn Song

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves reasoning in large language models (LLMs), but many methods still rely on large human-labeled datasets. While self-play reduces this dependency, it often lacks explicit planning and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yulin Peng , Xinxin Zhu , Chenxing Wei , Nianbo Zeng , Leilei Wang , Ying Tiffany He , F. Richard Yu

Large language models (LLMs) have been extensively studied for tasks like math competitions, complex coding, and scientific reasoning, yet their ability to accurately represent and simulate physical scenarios via code remains underexplored.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yanan Wang , Renxi Wang , Yongxin Wang , Xuezhi Liang , Fajri Koto , Timothy Baldwin , Xiaodan Liang , Haonan Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential as autonomous software engineering (SWE) agents. Recent work has further explored augmenting these agents with memory mechanisms to support long-horizon reasoning.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Kangning Shen , Jingyuan Zhang , Chenxi Sun , Wencong Zeng , Yang Yue

We introduce **SWE-Flow**, a novel data synthesis framework grounded in Test-Driven Development (TDD). Unlike existing software engineering data that rely on human-submitted issues, **SWE-Flow** automatically infers incremental development…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Lei Zhang , Jiaxi Yang , Min Yang , Jian Yang , Mouxiang Chen , Jiajun Zhang , Zeyu Cui , Binyuan Hui , Junyang Lin

Large language model (LLM) agents need to perform multi-turn interactions in real-world tasks. However, existing multi-turn RL algorithms for optimizing LLM agents fail to perform effective credit assignment over multiple turns while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yifei Zhou , Song Jiang , Yuandong Tian , Jason Weston , Sergey Levine , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Xian Li

Software issue resolution is a critical challenge in software engineering and has garnered increasing attention in recent years. With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), substantial progress has been made in addressing…

Behavioral studies of LLM-based software engineering agents extract operational rules about which trajectory shapes correlate with higher resolution rates: that a test step follows a code modification, that error cascades are short, or that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wei Ma , Zhi Chen , Jingxu Gu , Tianling Li , Shangqing Liu , Lingxiao Jiang