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Repository-level automated program repair (APR) requires long-horizon reasoning over interdependent decisions. However, most LLM-based approaches reconstruct repair reasoning independently for each issue, failing to reuse successful…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Chenglin Li , Yisen Xu , Zehao Wang , Shin Hwei Tan , Tse-Hsun , Chen

Code review (CR) is a crucial practice for ensuring software quality. Various automated review comment generation techniques have been proposed to streamline the labor-intensive process. However, existing approaches heavily rely on a single…

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Image Restoration (IR) agents, leveraging multimodal large language models to perceive degradation and invoke restoration tools, have shown promise in automating IR tasks. However, existing IR agents typically lack an insight summarization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yijian Wang , Qingsen Yan , Jiantao Zhou , Duwei Dai , Wei Dong

LLM-based agents have moved automated program repair (APR) from fixed-context patch generation to interactive repository-level repair. However, existing agentic APR systems still struggle to use execution evidence to guide localization,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Qianru Meng , Xiao Zhang , Zhaochun Ren , Joost Visser

Motivated by the problem of automated repair of software vulnerabilities, we propose an adversarial learning approach that maps from one discrete source domain to another target domain without requiring paired labeled examples or source and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Jacob Harer , Onur Ozdemir , Tomo Lazovich , Christopher P. Reale , Rebecca L. Russell , Louis Y. Kim , Peter Chin

Current stateless defences for multimodal agentic RAG fail to detect adversarial strategies that distribute malicious semantics across retrieval, planning, and generation components. We formulate this security challenge as a Partially…

Automated Program Repair (APR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for reducing debugging time and improving the overall efficiency of software development. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shunyu Liu , Guangdong Bai , Mark Utting , Guowei Yang

Software defects are an inherent part of software development and maintenance. To address these defects, Automated Program Repair (APR) has been developed to fix bugs automatically. With the advent of Large Language Models, Code Language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yunan Wang , Tingyu Guo , Zilong Huang , Yuan Yuan

In the field of automated program repair, the redundancy assumption claims large programs contain the seeds of their own repair. However, most redundancy-based program repair techniques do not reason about the repair ingredients---the code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Martin White , Michele Tufano , Matias Martinez , Martin Monperrus , Denys Poshyvanyk

Program repair is an integral part of every software system's life-cycle but can be extremely challenging. To date, researchers have proposed various automated program repair (APR) techniques to reduce efforts of manual debugging. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Samuel Benton , Mengshi Zhang , Xia Li , Lingming Zhang

Recent work in automated program repair (APR) proposes the use of reasoning and patch validation feedback to reduce the semantic gap between the LLMs and the code under analysis. The idea has been shown to perform well for general APR, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ummay Kulsum , Haotian Zhu , Bowen Xu , Marcelo d'Amorim

This paper defines adversarial reasoning as computational approaches to inferring and anticipating an enemy's perceptions, intents and actions. It argues that adversarial reasoning transcends the boundaries of game theory and must also…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Alexander Kott , Michael Ownby

Large language models have advanced software engineering automation, yet resolving real-world software issues remains difficult because it requires repository-level reasoning, accurate diagnostics, and strong verification signals. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-21 KeFan Li , Mengfei Wang , Hengzhi Zhang , Zhichao Li , Yuan Yuan , Mu Li , Xiang Gao , Hailong Sun , Chunming Hu , Weifeng Lv

Research shows that errors in natural language can be corrected by translating texts to another language and back using language models. We explore to what extent this latent correction capability extends to Automated Program Repair (APR)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Fernando Vallecillos Ruiz , Anastasiia Grishina , Max Hort , Leon Moonen

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to automatically fix bugs in the source code. Recently, as advances in Deep Learning (DL) field, there is a rise of Neural Program Repair (NPR) studies, which formulate APR as a translation task from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Wenkang Zhong , Chuanyi Li , Jidong Ge , Bin Luo

Formulating a treatment plan is inherently a complex reasoning and refinement task rather than a simple generation problem. However, existing large language models (LLMs) mainly rely on one-shot output without explicit verification, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Junkai Li , Yunghwei Lai , Tianyi Zhu , Zheng Long Lee , Weizhi Ma , Yang Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown strong potential in automatic program repair (APR), especially in repository-level settings where the goal is to generate patches based on natural language issue descriptions, large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Anvith Pabba , Simin Chen , Alex Mathai , Anindya Chakraborty , Baishakhi Ray

The dialogue systems in customer services have been developed with neural models to provide users with precise answers and round-the-clock support in task-oriented conversations by detecting customer intents based on their utterances.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yu-Chien Tang , Wei-Yao Wang , An-Zi Yen , Wen-Chih Peng

We introduce rStar2-Agent, a 14B math reasoning model trained with agentic reinforcement learning to achieve frontier-level performance. Beyond current long CoT, the model demonstrates advanced cognitive behaviors, such as thinking…

Software bugs cost technology providers (e.g., AT&T) billions annually and cause developers to spend roughly 50% of their time on bug resolution. Traditional methods for bug localization often analyze the suspiciousness of code components…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Asif Mohammed Samir , Mohammad Masudur Rahman