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In this paper, we introduce SWE-QA, a text and code corpus aimed at benchmarking multi-hop code comprehension, addressing the gap between simplified evaluation tasks and the complex reasoning required in real-world software development.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Laïla Elkoussy , Julien Perez

Test-time scaling has been widely adopted to enhance the capabilities of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in software engineering (SWE) tasks. However, the standard approach of repeatedly sampling trajectories from scratch is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yifeng Ding , Lingming Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently attracted wide interest for tackling software engineering tasks. In contrast to code generation, refactoring demands precise, semantics-preserving edits that improve program structure, which also…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yisen Xu , Jinqiu Yang , Tse-Hsun , Chen

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

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong performance on self-contained programming tasks. However, they still struggle with repository-level software engineering (SWE), which demands (1) deep codebase navigation with effective context…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kang He , Kaushik Roy

Resolving real-world software engineering (SWE) issues with autonomous agents requires complex, long-horizon reasoning. Current pipelines are bottlenecked by unoptimized demonstration data, sparse execution rewards, and computationally…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hao Han , Jin Xie , Xuehao Ma , Weiquan Zhu , Ziyao Zhang , ZhiLiang Long , Hongkai Chen , Qingwen Ye

Large language model (LLM)-powered agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in automating software engineering tasks such as static bug fixing. However, in the real world, the development of mature software is typically predicated on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jialong Chen , Xander Xu , Hu Wei , Chuan Chen , Bing Zhao

We introduce LongSkywork, a long-context Large Language Model (LLM) capable of processing up to 200,000 tokens. We provide a training recipe for efficiently extending context length of LLMs. We identify that the critical element in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Liang Zhao , Tianwen Wei , Liang Zeng , Cheng Cheng , Liu Yang , Peng Cheng , Lijie Wang , Chenxia Li , Xuejie Wu , Bo Zhu , Yimeng Gan , Rui Hu , Shuicheng Yan , Han Fang , Yahui Zhou

AI coding agents have shown great progress on Python software engineering benchmarks like SWE-Bench, and for other languages like Java and C in benchmarks like Multi-SWE-Bench. However, C# -- a prominent enterprise language ranking #5 in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Sanket Mhatre , Yasharth Bajpai , Sumit Gulwani , Emerson Murphy-Hill , Gustavo Soares

We introduce SWE-ZERO to SWE-HERO, a two-stage SFT recipe that achieves state-of-the-art results on SWE-bench by distilling open-weight frontier LLMs. Our pipeline replaces resource-heavy dependencies with an evolutionary refinement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Nikolai Ludwig , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Somshubra Majumdar , Boris Ginsburg

Code performance optimization is paramount in real-world software engineering and critical for production-level systems. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code generation and bug fixing, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xinyi He , Qian Liu , Mingzhe Du , Lin Yan , Zhijie Fan , Yiming Huang , Zejian Yuan , Zejun Ma

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) and code agents has demonstrated significant potential to assist software engineering (SWE) tasks, such as autonomous issue resolution and feature addition. Existing AI for software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhiyu Fan , Kirill Vasilevski , Dayi Lin , Boyuan Chen , Yihao Chen , Zhiqing Zhong , Jie M. Zhang , Pinjia He , Ahmed E. Hassan

AI-driven software development has rapidly advanced with the emergence of software development agents that leverage large language models (LLMs) to tackle complex, repository-level software engineering tasks. These agents go beyond just…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zhi Chen , Wei Ma , Lingxiao Jiang

Current code-agent benchmarks primarily evaluate localized issue resolution within a single target repository, leaving under-tested many software engineering tasks that require external knowledge or broader repository-level changes. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Guoxin Chen , Fanzhe Meng , Jiale Zhao , Minghao Li , Daixuan Cheng , Huatong Song , Jie Chen , Yuzhi Lin , Hui Chen , Xin Zhao , Ruihua Song , Chang Liu , Cheng Chen , Kai Jia , Ji-Rong Wen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant capabilities in understanding and analyzing code for security vulnerabilities, such as Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs). However, their reliance on cloud infrastructure and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Md. Azizul Hakim Bappy , Hossen A Mustafa , Prottoy Saha , Rajinus Salehat

Software Engineering (SE) is the systematic design, development, maintenance, and management of software applications underpinning the digital infrastructure of our modern world. Very recently, the SE community has seen a rapidly increasing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Yang Xie , Yaxin Zhang , Yun Yang , Weisong Sun , Shengcheng Yu , Zhenyu Chen

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has led to dramatic improvements across a wide range of natural language tasks. Their performance on certain tasks can be further enhanced by incorporating test-time reasoning techniques. These…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Saurabh Pujar , Ira Ceka , Irene Manotas , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray , Shyam Ramji

LLM agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in software development, but their performance is hampered by long interaction contexts, which incur high API costs and latency. While various context compression approaches such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yuhang Wang , Yuling Shi , Mo Yang , Rongrui Zhang , Shilin He , Heng Lian , Yuting Chen , Siyu Ye , Kai Cai , Xiaodong Gu

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable and widely adopted, benchmarks play a central role in assessing their practical utility. For example, SWE-Bench Verified has emerged as a critical benchmark for evaluating LLMs'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shanchao Liang , Spandan Garg , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam

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