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Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to automatically fix bugs in the source code. Recently, as advances in Deep Learning (DL) field, there is a rise of Neural Program Repair (NPR) studies, which formulate APR as a translation task from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Wenkang Zhong , Chuanyi Li , Jidong Ge , Bin Luo

LLM-based automated program repair methods have attracted significant attention for their state-of-the-art performance. However, they were primarily evaluated on a few well known datasets like Defects4J, raising questions about their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fengjie Li , Jiajun Jiang , Jiajun Sun , Hongyu Zhang

Sequence-to-sequence models have been used to transform erroneous programs into correct ones when trained with a large enough dataset. Some recent studies also demonstrated strong empirical evidence that code review could improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Rishov Paul , Md. Mohib Hossain , Mohammed Latif Siddiq , Masum Hasan , Anindya Iqbal , Joanna C. S. Santos

Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques aim to automatically fix buggy programs. Among these, Large Language Model-based (LLM-based) approaches have shown great promise. Recent advances demonstrate that directly leveraging LLMs can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiayi Zhang , Kai Huang , Jian Zhang , Yang Liu , Chunyang Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong program repair performance but often suffer from over-editing, where excessive modifications overwrite correct code and hinder bug localization. We systematically quantify its impact and introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Changxin Ke , Rui Zhang , Jiaming Guo , Yuanbo Wen , Li Ding , Shuo Wang , Xuyuan Zhu , Xiong Peng , Di Huang , Zidong Du , Xing Hu , Qi Guo , Yunji Chen

Large language models such as Codex, have shown the capability to produce code for many programming tasks. However, the success rate of existing models is low, especially for complex programming tasks. One of the reasons is that language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Zhiyu Fan , Xiang Gao , Martin Mirchev , Abhik Roychoudhury , Shin Hwei Tan

Automatic Program Repair (APR) has garnered significant attention as a practical research domain focused on automatically fixing bugs in programs. While existing APR techniques primarily target imperative programming languages like C and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Mohannad Alhanahnah , Md Rashedul Hasan , Lisong Xu , Hamid Bagheri

With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), traditional Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques have undergone significant transformation. Training-free approaches, such as zero-shot and few-shot prompting, are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Haichuan Hu , Ye Shang , Weifeng Sun , Quanjun Zhang

This research addresses the complex challenge of automated repair of code vulnerabilities, vital for enhancing digital security in an increasingly technology-driven world. The study introduces a novel and efficient format for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-04 David de-Fitero-Dominguez , Eva Garcia-Lopez , Antonio Garcia-Cabot , Jose-Javier Martinez-Herraiz

Automated Program Repair (APR) plays a critical role in enhancing the quality and reliability of software systems. While substantial progress has been made in Java-based APR, largely facilitated by benchmarks like Defects4J, there remains a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jian Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Qiang Hu , Shangqing Liu , Jiongchi Yu , Jiaolong Kong , Yi Li

Automated Program Repair (APR) struggles with complex logic errors and silent failures. Current LLM-based APR methods are mostly static, relying on source code and basic test outputs, which fail to accurately capture complex runtime…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jiaqing Wu , Tong Wu , Manqing Zhang , Yunwei Dong , Bo Shen

Automatic Program Repair (APR) endeavors to autonomously rectify issues within specific projects, which generally encompasses three categories of tasks: bug resolution, new feature development, and feature enhancement. Despite extensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jiuang Zhao , Donghao Yang , Li Zhang , Xiaoli Lian , Zitian Yang , Fang Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong potential for Automated Program Repair (APR), yet most existing approaches remain unimodal and fail to leverage the rich diagnostic signals contained in visual artifacts such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xiaoxuan Tang , Jincheng Wang , Liwei Luo , Jingxuan Xu , Sheng Zhou , Dajun Chen , Wei Jiang , Yong Li

Most programmers make mistakes when writing code. Some of these mistakes are small and require few edits to the original program -- a class of errors recently termed last mile mistakes. These errors break the flow for experienced developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Harshit Joshi , José Cambronero , Sumit Gulwani , Vu Le , Ivan Radicek , Gust Verbruggen

Background: Automated Vulnerability Repair (AVR) is a fast-growing branch of program repair. Recent studies show that large language models (LLMs) outperform traditional techniques, extending their success beyond code generation and fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Maria Camporese , Fabio Massacci

With the rapid development and large-scale popularity of program software, modern society increasingly relies on software systems. However, the problems exposed by software have also come to the fore. Software defect has become an important…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Kai Huang , Zhengzi Xu , Su Yang , Hongyu Sun , Xuejun Li , Zheng Yan , Yuqing Zhang

Research shows that errors in natural language can be corrected by translating texts to another language and back using language models. We explore to what extent this latent correction capability extends to Automated Program Repair (APR)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Fernando Vallecillos Ruiz , Anastasiia Grishina , Max Hort , Leon Moonen

With the development of large language models (LLMs) in the field of programming, intelligent programming coaching systems have gained widespread attention. However, most research focuses on repairing the buggy code of programming learners…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhenlong Dai , Zhuoluo Zhao , Hengning Wang , Xiu Tang , Sai Wu , Chang Yao , Zhipeng Gao , Jingyuan Chen

Automatic Program Repair (APR) is a core technology in software development and maintenance, with aims to enable automated defect repair with minimal human intervention. In recent years, the substantial advancements in Large Language Models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Quanming Liu , Xupeng Bu , Zhichao Yan , Ru Li

The existing deep learning (DL)-based automated program repair (APR) models are limited in fixing general software defects. % We present {\tool}, a DL-based approach that supports fixing for the general bugs that require dependent changes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yi Li , Shaohua Wang , Tien N. Nguyen