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Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong reasoning and coding capabilities, yet they struggle to generalize to real-world software engineering (SWE) problems that are long-horizon and out of distribution. Existing systems often rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Iris Xu , Guangtao Zeng , Zexue He , Charles Jin , Aldo Pareja , Dan Gutfreund , Chuang Gan , Zhang-Wei Hong

Recent developments in Large Language Model (LLM) agents are revolutionizing Autonomous Software Engineering (ASE), enabling automated coding, problem fixes, and feature improvements. However, localization -- precisely identifying software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhongming Yu , Hejia Zhang , Yujie Zhao , Hanxian Huang , Matrix Yao , Ke Ding , Jishen Zhao

Current benchmarks for evaluating software engineering agents, such as SWE-Bench Verified, are predominantly derived from GitHub issues and fail to accurately reflect how developers interact with chat-based coding assistants in integrated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Spandan Garg , Benjamin Steenhoek , Yufan Huang

We introduce TDFlow, a novel test-driven agentic workflow that frames repository-scale software engineering as a test-resolution task, specifically designed to solve human-written tests. Given a set of tests, TDFlow repeatedly proposes,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Kevin Han , Siddharth Maddikayala , Tim Knappe , Om Patel , Austen Liao , Amir Barati Farimani

Agentic AI systems combine LLM-based reasoning, orchestration, tool invocation, and interaction with external environments. These systems introduce faults that are difficult to characterize using existing taxonomies. To address this gap, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Mehil B Shah , Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Foutse Khomh

A common method to solve complex problems in software engineering, is to divide the problem into multiple sub-problems. Inspired by this, we propose a Modular Architecture for Software-engineering AI (MASAI) agents, where different…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Daman Arora , Atharv Sonwane , Nalin Wadhwa , Abhav Mehrotra , Saiteja Utpala , Ramakrishna Bairi , Aditya Kanade , Nagarajan Natarajan

Large language model agents have made strong progress on software engineering, yet current systems suffer from a context coupling problem: the standard code editing interface conflates code inspection, modification planning, and edit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yikai Zhang , Jiaxin Pei , Kenan Li , Qirui Jin , Maoquan Wang , Jin Pan , Yu Kang , Shengyu Fu , Elsie Nallipogu , Junjie Hu , Yufan Huang , Zijian Jin

Progress in software-engineering agents is increasingly constrained by the scarcity of executable, scalable, and realistic data for training and evaluation. This scarcity stems from three fundamental challenges in existing pipelines:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yucheng Zeng , Shupeng Li , Daxiang Dong , Ruijie Xu , Zimo Chen , Liwei Zheng , Yuxuan Li , Zhe Zhou , Haotian Zhao , Lun Tian , Heng Xiao , Tianshu Zhu , Longkun Hao , Jianmin Wu

Large language models (LLMs) have empowered AI agents to tackle increasingly complex tasks. However, most existing agents remain limited to static planning and brittle interactions, falling short of true collaboration or adaptive reasoning.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 William Nguyen , Vinh Luong , Christopher Nguyen

Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping almost all industries, including software engineering. In recent years, a number of LLM agents have been proposed to solve real-world software problems. Such software agents are typically equipped…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Zhe Wang , Yan Yang , Yuxiang Wei , Lingming Zhang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown the promise to significantly accelerate the workflow by automating structural modeling and analysis. However, existing studies primarily focus on enabling LLMs to operate a single…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ziheng Geng , Jiachen Liu , Ian Franklin , Ran Cao , Dan M. Frangopol , Minghui Cheng

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

AI agents have become increasingly capable at isolated software engineering (SWE) tasks such as resolving issues on Github. Yet long-horizon tasks involving multiple interdependent subtasks still pose challenges both with respect to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiayi Geng , Graham Neubig

Agent-based AutoML systems rely on large language models to make complex, multi-stage decisions across data processing, model selection, and evaluation. However, existing evaluation practices remain outcome-centric, focusing primarily on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Gaoyuan Du , Amit Ahlawat , Xiaoyang Liu , Jing Wu

Multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs) are expected to enhance decision-making by pooling distributed information, yet systematically evaluating this capability has remained challenging. We introduce HiddenBench, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yuxuan Li , Aoi Naito , Hirokazu Shirado

Turning ideas into full software projects from scratch has become a popular use case for language models. Agents are being deployed to seed, maintain, and grow codebases over extended periods with minimal human oversight. Such settings…

Next-generation AI must manage vast personal data, diverse tools, and multi-step reasoning, yet most benchmarks remain context-free and single-turn. We present ASTRA-bench (Assistant Skills in Tool-use, Reasoning \& Action-planning), a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zidi Xiu , David Q. Sun , Kevin Cheng , Maitrik Patel , Josh Date , Yizhe Zhang , Jiarui Lu , Omar Attia , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Oncel Tuzel , Meng Cao , Samy Bengio

We describe WebSuite, the first diagnostic benchmark for generalist web agents, designed to systematically evaluate why agents fail. Advances in AI have led to the rise of numerous web agents that autonomously operate a browser to complete…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Eric Li , Jim Waldo

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

As Large Language Models transition to autonomous agents, user inputs frequently violate cooperative assumptions (e.g., implicit intent, missing parameters, false presuppositions, or ambiguous expressions), creating execution risks that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Han Bao , Zheyuan Zhang , Pengcheng Jing , Zhengqing Yuan , Kaiwen Shi , Yanfang Ye