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Language models have outpaced our ability to evaluate them effectively, but for their future development it is essential to study the frontier of their capabilities. We find real-world software engineering to be a rich, sustainable, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Carlos E. Jimenez , John Yang , Alexander Wettig , Shunyu Yao , Kexin Pei , Ofir Press , Karthik Narasimhan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as promising tools in software development, enabling automated code generation and analysis. However, their knowledge is limited to a fixed cutoff date, making them prone to generating code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Minjae Seo , Wonwoo Choi , Myoungsung You , Seungwon Shin

Self-healing systems have long been a focus of research, aiming to enable software to recover from unexpected runtime errors without human intervention. Traditional approaches rely on predefined heuristic rules, such as reusing error…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhensu Sun , Haotian Zhu , Bowen Xu , Xiaoning Du , Li Li , David Lo

Large language models have demonstrated strong capabilities in individual software engineering tasks, yet most autonomous systems still treat issue resolution as a monolithic or pipeline-based process. In contrast, real-world software…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Nikita Benkovich , Vitalii Valkov

Assessing the reproducibility of social science papers is essential for promoting rigor in research processes, but manual assessment is costly. With recent advances in agentic AI systems (i.e., AI agents), we seek to evaluate their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Chuxuan Hu , Liyun Zhang , Yeji Lim , Aum Wadhwani , Austin Peters , Daniel Kang

Architectural code smells erode software maintainability and are costly to repair manually, yet unlike localized bugs, they require cross-module reasoning about design intent that challenges both developers and automated tools. While large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ion George Dinu , Marian Cristian Mihăescu , Traian Rebedea

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

Ensuring web accessibility at scale remains challenging because rule-based tools provide limited coverage while manual remediation is costly and error-prone. This paper evaluates large language model based agents, specifically Kimi K2.5,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Oluwatoyosi Oyelayo , Ghada Abushaqra , Parham Asadi , Durjoy Dey , Diego Elias Costa

Agentic systems that chain reasoning, tool use, and synthesis into multi-step workflows are entering production, yet prevailing evaluation practices like end-to-end outcome checks and ad-hoc trace inspection systematically mask the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Dongxin Guo , Jikun Wu , Siu Ming Yiu

Recent advances in language model (LM) agents have demonstrated significant potential for automating complex real-world tasks. To make progress on these difficult tasks, LM agent architectures have become increasingly complex, often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Mingjian Jiang , Yangjun Ruan , Luis Lastras , Pavan Kapanipathi , Tatsunori Hashimoto

Large language models (LLMs) now support automated software security tasks, including vulnerability discovery and proof-of-concept (PoC) generation. Existing benchmarks do not faithfully evaluate LLMs in real-world bug hunting scenarios…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hwiwon Lee , Jiawei Liu , Dongjun Kim , Ziqi Zhang , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Lingming Zhang

Operating Elasticsearch clusters at scale demands continuous human expertise spanning the full lifecycle -- from initial deployment through performance tuning, monitoring, failure prediction, and incident recovery. We present the ES…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Muhamed Ramees Cheriya Mukkolakkal

LLM agents have begun to find real security vulnerabilities that human auditors and automated fuzzers missed for decades, in source-available targets where the analyst can build and instrument the code. In practice the work is split among…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Hanzhi Liu , Chaofan Shou , Xiaonan Liu , Hongbo Wen , Yanju Chen , Ryan Jingyang Fang , Yu Feng

As AI systems are increasingly used to conduct research autonomously, misaligned systems could introduce subtle flaws that produce misleading results while evading detection. We introduce Auditing Sabotage Bench, a benchmark for evaluating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Eric Gan , Aryan Bhatt , Buck Shlegeris , Julian Stastny , Vivek Hebbar

Modern software ecosystems face a rapidly growing number of disclosed vulnerabilities, increasing the need for automated repair techniques that can operate reliably at repository scale. Although Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Simiao Liu , Li Zhang , Fang Liu , Xiaoli Lian , Yang Liu , Yinghao Zhu

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, particularly autonomous agentic systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs), presents new opportunities to accelerate drug discovery by improving in-silico modeling and reducing dependence…

Language model (LM) agents are increasingly being used to automate complicated tasks in digital environments. Just as humans benefit from powerful software applications, such as integrated development environments, for complex tasks like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-13 John Yang , Carlos E. Jimenez , Alexander Wettig , Kilian Lieret , Shunyu Yao , Karthik Narasimhan , Ofir Press

Repository-level code agents have shown strong promise in real-world feature addition tasks, making reliable evaluation of their capabilities increasingly important. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate these agents as black…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shuhan Liu , Zhiyi Zhao , Xing Hu , Kui Liu , Xiaohu Yang , Xin Xia

Issue resolution, a complex Software Engineering (SWE) task integral to real-world development, has emerged as a compelling challenge for artificial intelligence. The establishment of benchmarks like SWE-bench revealed this task as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Caihua Li , Lianghong Guo , Yanlin Wang , Daya Guo , Wei Tao , Zhenyu Shan , Mingwei Liu , Jiachi Chen , Haoyu Song , Duyu Tang , Hongyu Zhang , Zibin Zheng

Developing high-performance software is a complex task that requires specialized expertise. We introduce GSO, a benchmark for evaluating language models' capabilities in developing high-performance software. We develop an automated pipeline…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Manish Shetty , Naman Jain , Jinjian Liu , Vijay Kethanaboyina , Koushik Sen , Ion Stoica