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Building LLM-based agents has become increasingly important. Recent works on LLM-based agent self-evolution primarily record successful experiences as textual prompts or reflections, which cannot reliably guarantee efficient task…

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While "Intent-oriented programming" (or "Vibe Coding") redefines software engineering, existing code agents remain tethered to static code snapshots. Consequently, they struggle to model the critical information embedded in the temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yi-Xuan Deng , Xiaoqin Liu , Yi Zhang , Guo-Wei Yang , Shuojin Yang

Software development agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor Agent, Devin, and OpenAI Codex are being increasingly integrated into developer workflows. While prior work has evaluated agent capabilities for code completion and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lukas Ottenhof , Daniel Penner , Abram Hindle , Thibaud Lutellier

The ever-growing popularity of mobile phones has brought additional challenges to the software development lifecycle. Mobile applications (apps, for short) ought to provide the same set of features as conventional software, with limited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Luis Cruz , Rui Abreu

Code synthesis, which requires a deep understanding of complex natural language problem descriptions, generation of code instructions for complex algorithms and data structures, and the successful execution of comprehensive unit tests,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Md. Ashraful Islam , Mohammed Eunus Ali , Md Rizwan Parvez

Tool learning has emerged as a crucial capability for large language models (LLMs) to solve complex real-world tasks through interaction with external tools. Existing approaches face significant challenges, including reliance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hanxing Ding , Shuchang Tao , Liang Pang , Zihao Wei , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Modern code generation has made significant strides in functional correctness and execution efficiency. However, these systems often overlook a critical dimension in real-world software development: maintainability. To handle dynamic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhengren Wang , Rui Ling , Chufan Wang , Yongan Yu , Sizhe Wang , Zhiyu Li , Feiyu Xiong , Wentao Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for code generation, yet they remain limited in private-library-oriented code generation, where the goal is to generate code using APIs from private libraries. Existing approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yitong Zhang , Chengze Li , Ruize Chen , Guowei Yang , Xiaoran Jia , Yijie Ren , Jia Li

Modern software development methodologies include reuse of open source code. Reuse can be facilitated by architectural knowledge of the software, not necessarily provided in the documentation of open source software. The effort required to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Eleni Constantinou , George Kakarontzas , Ioannis Stamelos

Automated code generation using large language models (LLMs) has gained attention due to its efficiency and adaptability. However, real-world coding tasks or benchmarks like HumanEval and StudentEval often lack dedicated training datasets,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Shuai Wang , Liang Ding , Yibing Zhan , Yong Luo , Zheng He , Dapeng Tao

Retrieval-augmented code generation utilizes Large Language Models as the generator and significantly expands their code generation capabilities by providing relevant code, documentation, and more via the retriever. The current approach…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Xinyu Gao , Yun Xiong , Deze Wang , Zhenhan Guan , Zejian Shi , Haofen Wang , Shanshan Li

This paper describes a method for the recovering of software architectures from a set of similar (but unrelated) software products in binary form. One intention is to drive refactoring into software product lines and combine architecture…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Ian D. Peake , Jan Olaf Blech , Lasith Fernando , Divyasheel Sharma , Srini Ramaswamy , Mallikarjun Kande

Software developers write a lot of source code and documentation during software development. Intrinsically, developers often recall parts of source code or code summaries that they had written in the past while implementing software or…

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The ultimate goal of code agents is to solve complex tasks autonomously. Although large language models (LLMs) have made substantial progress in code generation, real-world tasks typically demand full-fledged code repositories rather than…

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For large software systems, refactoring activities can be a challenging task, since for keeping component complexity under control the overall architecture as well as many details of each component have to be considered. Product metrics are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Christian Napoli , Giuseppe Pappalardo , Emiliano Tramontana

Use cases are widely employed to specify functional requirements, yet existing benchmarks are scarce and face the risk of being misaligned with actual system behavior, similarly limiting the rigorous evaluation of large language models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuyuan Xiao , Yiran Zhang , Weisong Sun , Xiaohong Chen , Yang Liu , Zhi Jin

Code readability is fundamental to software quality and maintainability. Poor readability extends development time, increases bug-inducing risks, and contributes to technical debt. With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models, AI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Kyogo Horikawa , Kosei Horikawa , Yutaro Kashiwa , Hidetake Uwano , Hajimu Iida

The evolution of quantum hardware is highlighting the need for advances in quantum software engineering that help developers create quantum software with good quality attributes. Specifically, reusability has been traditionally considered…

As large language models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents, evaluating repository-level reasoning, the ability to maintain logical consistency across massive, real-world, interdependent file systems, has become critical. Current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jia Li , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Binary Code Similarity Detection (BCSD) is not only essential for security tasks such as vulnerability identification but also for code copying detection, yet it remains challenging due to binary stripping and diverse compilation…

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