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Software engineering activities such as package migration, fixing errors reports from static analysis or testing, and adding type annotations or other specifications to a codebase, involve pervasively editing the entire repository of code.…

As coding challenges become more complex, recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to notable successes, such as achieving a 94.6\% solve rate on the HumanEval benchmark. Concurrently, there is an increasing commercial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Douglas Schonholtz

Automating the adaptation of software engineering (SE) research artifacts across datasets is essential for scalability and reproducibility, yet it remains largely unstudied. Recent advances in large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jingyi Chen , Xiaoyan Guo , Songqiang Chen , Shing-Chi Cheung , Jiasi Shen

This paper presents a novel approach for unified retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems using the recent emerging large language model (LLM) agent concept. Specifically, Agent LLM, which utilizes LLM as fundamental controllers, has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hoang Pham , Thuy-Duong Nguyen , Khac-Hoai Nam Bui

Large Language Models (LLMs) have greatly advanced code auto-completion systems, with a potential for substantial productivity enhancements for developers. However, current benchmarks mainly focus on single-file tasks, leaving an assessment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Tianyang Liu , Canwen Xu , Julian McAuley

This paper introduces UniTranslator, a visionary framework that re-imagines code translation as a collaborative endeavor among multiple, compact LLMs. By orchestrating the interaction of specialized agents, each focused on different aspects…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Rabimba Karanjai , Sam Blackshear , Lei Xu , Weidong Shi

Code translation, the automatic conversion of programs between languages, is a growing use case for Large Language Models (LLMs). However, direct one-shot translation often fails to preserve program intent, leading to errors in control…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Shahriar Rumi Dipto , Saikat Mondal , Chanchal K. Roy

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation has transformed software development by automating coding tasks with unprecedented efficiency. However, the training of these models on open-source code repositories…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wenjie Qu , Yuguang Zhou , Bo Wang , Yuexin Li , Lionel Z. Wang , Jinyuan Jia , Jiaheng Zhang

Refactoring is a constant activity in software development and maintenance. Scale and maintain software systems are based on code refactoring. However, this process is still labor intensive, as it requires programmers to analyze the…

Code translation transforms programs from one programming language (PL) to another. Several rule-based transpilers have been designed to automate code translation between different pairs of PLs. However, the rules can become obsolete as the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ali Reza Ibrahimzada , Kaiyao Ke , Mrigank Pawagi , Muhammad Salman Abid , Rangeet Pan , Saurabh Sinha , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

Code agents increasingly help developers work with unfamiliar repositories, but every such task depends on a costly prerequisite: bootstrapping the repository into a usable development state. This process requires substantial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sihan Fu , Oucheng Liu , Shiyuan Wang , Jin Shi , Chengkun Wei

Recent advances in LLM Multi-Agent Systems enable scalable orchestration of sub-agents, each coordinating hundreds or thousands of tools or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. However, existing retrieval methods typically match queries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Elias Lumer , Faheem Nizar , Anmol Gulati , Pradeep Honaganahalli Basavaraju , Vamse Kumar Subbiah

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in code generation, they often struggle with the deep, long-horizon reasoning required for complex software engineering. We attribute this limitation to the nature of…

Recent code translation techniques exploit neural machine translation models to translate source code from one programming language to another to satisfy production compatibility or to improve efficiency of codebase maintenance. Most…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Weixiang Yan , Yuchen Tian , Yunzhe Li , Qian Chen , Wen Wang

Recovering accurate architecture from large-scale legacy software is hindered by architectural drift, missing relations, and the limited context of Large Language Models (LLMs). We present ArchAgent, a scalable agent-based framework that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Rusheng Pan , Bingcheng Mao , Tianyi Ma , Zhenhua Ling

Despite the huge success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, these models struggle to understand the context present in the repository (e.g., imports, parent classes, files with similar names, etc.),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Disha Shrivastava , Denis Kocetkov , Harm de Vries , Dzmitry Bahdanau , Torsten Scholak

Automated code documentation is essential for modern software development, providing the contextual grounding that both human developers and coding agents rely on to navigate large codebases. Existing repository-level approaches process…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Suyoung Bae , Jaehoon Lee , Changkyu Choi , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in code generation. However, because most LLMs are trained on public domain corpora, directly applying them to real-world software development often yields low success rates,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Shuai Wang , Dhasarathy Parthasarathy , Robert Feldt , Yinan Yu

Despite Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 achieving impressive results in function-level code generation, they struggle with repository-scale code understanding (e.g., coming up with the right arguments for calling routines),…

We introduce a novel large language model (LLM)-driven agent framework, which iteratively refines queries and filters contextual evidence by leveraging dynamically evolving knowledge. A defining feature of the system is its decoupling of…

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