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Existing benchmarks for AI coding agents focus on isolated, single-issue tasks such as fixing a bug or adding a small feature. However, real-world software engineering is a long-horizon endeavor: developers interpret high-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Tue Le , Minh V. T. Thai , Dung Nguyen Manh , Huy Phan Nhat , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly from conversational problem solving to addressing real-world tasks involving tool use, such as software engineering (SWE). Recent LLM-powered toolkits, such as OpenAI Codex and Cursor, have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Haoran Wang , Zhenyu Hou , Yao Wei , Jie Tang , Yuxiao Dong

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capability in diverse software engineering tasks. However, feature-driven development, a highly prevalent real-world task that involves developing new functionalities for large, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yaxin Du , Yuzhu Cai , Yifan Zhou , Cheng Wang , Yu Qian , Xianghe Pang , Qian Liu , Yue Hu , Siheng Chen

Resolution of complex SQL issues persists as a significant bottleneck in real-world database applications. Current Large Language Models (LLMs), while adept at text-to-SQL translation, have not been rigorously evaluated on the more…

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 advancements in LLM-based agents have led to significant progress in automatic software engineering, particularly in software maintenance and evolution. Despite these encouraging advances, current research faces two major challenges.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yingwei Ma , Rongyu Cao , Yongchang Cao , Yue Zhang , Jue Chen , Yibo Liu , Yuchen Liu , Binhua Li , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li

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

Scaling test-time compute is a promising axis for improving LLM capabilities. However, test-time compute can be scaled in a variety of ways, and effectively combining different approaches remains an active area of research. Here, we explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ryan Ehrlich , Bradley Brown , Jordan Juravsky , Ronald Clark , Christopher Ré , Azalia Mirhoseini

Training software engineering (SWE) LLMs is bottlenecked by expensive infrastructure, inefficient evaluation pipelines, scarce training data, and costly quality control. We present RepoForge, an autonomous, end-to-end pipeline that…

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

Training capable software engineering (SWE) agents demands large-scale, executable, and verifiable environments that provide dynamic feedback loops for iterative code editing, test execution, and solution refinement. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dayuan Fu , Shenyu Wu , Yunze Wu , Zerui Peng , Yaxing Huang , Jie Sun , Ji Zeng , Mohan Jiang , Lin Zhang , Yukun Li , Jiarui Hu , Liming Liu , Jinlong Hou , Pengfei Liu

Managing issue reports is essential for the evolution and maintenance of software systems. However, manual issue management tasks such as triaging, prioritizing, localizing, and resolving issues are highly resource-intensive for projects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ahmed Adnan , Antu Saha , Oscar Chaparro

Software Engineering Agents (SWE agents) can autonomously perform development tasks on benchmarks like SWE Bench, but still face challenges when tackling complex and ambiguous real-world tasks. Consequently, SWE agents are often designed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Aayush Kumar , Yasharth Bajpai , Sumit Gulwani , Gustavo Soares , Emerson Murphy-Hill

Repository-level code editing requires models to understand complex dependencies and execute precise multi-file modifications across a large codebase. While recent gains on SWE-bench rely heavily on complex agent scaffolding, it remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Qinglin Zhu , Tianyu Chen , Shuai Lu , Lei Ji , Runcong Zhao , Murong Ma , Xiangxiang Dai , Yulan He , Lin Gui , Peng cheng , Yeyun Gong

The deployment of coding agents in privacy-sensitive and resource-constrained environments drives the demand for capable open-weight Small Language Models (SLMs). However, they suffer from a fundamental capability gap: unlike frontier large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jinjun Peng , Magnus Saebo , Tianjun Zhong , Yi-Jie Cheng , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray , Simin Chen , Yangruibo Ding

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) for software engineering has been limited by narrow task coverage, language bias, and insufficient alignment with real-world developer workflows. Existing benchmarks often focus on algorithmic…

This paper applies machine learning to the difficult and important task of version control merging. (1) We constructed a dataset, Merge-Bench, of 7938 real-world merge conflict hunks from 1439 GitHub repositories. The ground truth is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Benedikt Schesch , Michael D. Ernst

Coding agents powered by large language models are increasingly expected to perform realistic software maintenance tasks beyond isolated issue resolution. Existing benchmarks have shifted toward realistic software evolution, but they rarely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Man Ho Lam , Chaozheng Wang , Hange Liu , Jingyu Xiao , Haau-sing Li , Jen-tse Huang , Terry Yue Zhuo , Michael R. Lyu

Code agents are currently having skillful performance on repository-level software engineering benchmarks, but it remains unclear whether success on end-to-end tasks such as issue resolution truly reflects repository context reasoning, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hanyu Li , Yichi Zhang , Speed Zhu , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yinpeng Dong