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Repository-level code generation aims to generate code within the context of a specified repository. Existing approaches typically employ retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) techniques to provide LLMs with relevant contextual information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yang Liu , Li Zhang , Fang Liu , Zhuohang Wang , Donglin Wei , Zhishuo Yang , Kechi Zhang , Jia Li , Lin Shi

Code summaries are essential for helping developers understand code functionality and reducing maintenance and collaboration costs. Although recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved automatic code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jintai Li , Songqiang Chen , Shuo Jin , Xiaoyuan Xie

Automated program repair (APR) struggles to scale from isolated functions to full repositories, as it demands a global, task-aware understanding to locate necessary changes. Current methods, limited by context and reliant on shallow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhongqiang Pan , Chuanyi Li , Wenkang Zhong , Yi Feng , Bin Luo , Vincent Ng

Software documentation largely consists of short, natural language summaries of the subroutines in the software. These summaries help programmers quickly understand what a subroutine does without having to read the source code him or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Sakib Haque , Alexander LeClair , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan

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

Given the vast number of repositories hosted on GitHub, project discovery and retrieval have become increasingly important for GitHub users. Repository descriptions serve as one of the first points of contact for users who are accessing a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jazlyn Hellman , Eunbee Jang , Christoph Treude , Chenzhun Huang , Jin L. C. Guo

Code Large Language Models (CodeLLMs) have demonstrated impressive proficiency in code completion tasks. However, they often fall short of fully understanding the extensive context of a project repository, such as the intricacies of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Huy N. Phan , Hoang N. Phan , Tien N. Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Automatically generating concise, informative comments for source code can lighten documentation effort and accelerate program comprehension. Retrieval-augmented approaches first fetch code snippets with existing comments and then…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Tien P. T. Le , Anh M. T. Bui , Huy N. D. Pham , Alessio Bucaioni , Phuong T. Nguyen

Effective query formulation is a key challenge in long-document Information Retrieval (IR). This challenge is particularly acute in domain-specific contexts like patent retrieval, where documents are lengthy, linguistically complex, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Eleni Kamateri , Renukswamy Chikkamath , Michail Salampasis , Linda Andersson , Markus Endres

Software Repositories contain knowledge on how software engineering teams work, communicate, and collaborate. It can be used to develop a data-informed view of a team's development process, which in turn can be employed for process…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Christoph Matthies , Franziska Dobrigkeit , Guenter Hesse

Automated code summarization is a long-standing goal for code comprehension. This task automatically generates documentation using a given method. Deep Learning (DL)-based approaches have been proven beneficial for various software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Antonio Vitale , Antonio Mastropaolo , Rocco Oliveto , Massimiliano Di Penta , Simone Scalabrino

In large-scale software development, understanding the functionality and intent behind complex codebases is critical for effective development and maintenance. While code summarization has been widely studied, existing methods primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Nilesh Dhulshette , Sapan Shah , Vinay Kulkarni

Background: During software maintenance and development, the comprehension of program code is key to success. High-quality comments can help us better understand programs, but they're often missing or outmoded in today's programs. Automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yuxiang Zhu , Minxue Pan

Although some recent works show potential complementarity among different state-of-the-art systems, few works try to investigate this problem in text summarization. Researchers in other areas commonly refer to the techniques of reranking or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Yixin Liu , Zi-Yi Dou , Pengfei Liu

Generating a readable summary that describes the functionality of a program is known as source code summarization. In this task, learning code representation by modeling the pairwise relationship between code tokens to capture their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Saikat Chakraborty , Baishakhi Ray , Kai-Wei Chang

Documentation debt hinders the effective utilization of open-source software. Although code summarization tools have been helpful for developers, most would prefer a detailed account of each parameter in a function rather than a high-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Vatsal Venkatkrishna , Durga Shree Nagabushanam , Emmanuel Iko-Ojo Simon , Melina Vidoni

Repository-level code completion automatically predicts the unfinished code based on the broader information from the repository. Recent strides in Code Large Language Models (code LLMs) have spurred the development of repository-level code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sheng Zhang , Yifan Ding , Shuquan Lian , Shun Song , Hui Li

Software documentation is essential for program comprehension, developer onboarding, code review, and long-term maintenance. Yet producing quality documentation manually is time-consuming and frequently yields incomplete or inconsistent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Afia Farjana , Zaiyu Cheng , Antonio Mastropaolo

(Source) Code summarization aims to automatically generate summaries/comments for a given code snippet in the form of natural language. Such summaries play a key role in helping developers understand and maintain source code. Existing code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Yuchen Chen , Quanjun Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Tingxu Han , Yifei Ge , Yudu You , Bin Luo

Code summarization generates brief natural language description given a source code snippet, while code retrieval fetches relevant source code given a natural language query. Since both tasks aim to model the association between natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Wei Ye , Rui Xie , Jinglei Zhang , Tianxiang Hu , Xiaoyin Wang , Shikun Zhang