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Autonomous systems for software engineering are now capable of fixing bugs and developing features. These systems are commonly evaluated on SWE-bench (Jimenez et al., 2024a), which assesses their ability to solve software issues from GitHub…

We introduce SWE-PRBench, a benchmark of 350 pull requests with human-annotated ground truth for evaluating AI code review quality. Evaluated against an LLM-as-judge framework validated at kappa=0.75, 8 frontier models detect only 15-31% of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Deepak Kumar

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

Test-time scaling has been widely adopted to enhance the capabilities of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in software engineering (SWE) tasks. However, the standard approach of repeatedly sampling trajectories from scratch is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yifeng Ding , Lingming Zhang

This paper introduces SecRepoBench, a benchmark to evaluate code agents on secure code completion in real-world repositories. SecRepoBench has 318 code completion tasks in 27 C/C++ repositories, covering 15 CWEs. We evaluate 29 standalone…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Chihao Shen , Connor Dilgren , Purva Chiniya , Luke Griffith , Yu Ding , Yizheng Chen

LLM-powered coding agents are redefining how real-world software is developed. To drive the research towards better coding agents, we require challenging benchmarks that can rigorously evaluate the ability of such agents to perform various…

Large Language Models (LLMs) in Software Engineering (SE) can offer assistance for coding. To facilitate a rigorous evaluation of LLMs in practical coding contexts, Carlos et al. introduced the SWE-bench dataset, which comprises 2,294…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Reem Aleithan , Haoran Xue , Mohammad Mahdi Mohajer , Elijah Nnorom , Gias Uddin , Song Wang

We present SWE-Lego, a supervised fine-tuning (SFT) recipe designed to achieve state-ofthe-art performance in software engineering (SWE) issue resolving. In contrast to prevalent methods that rely on complex training paradigms (e.g.,…

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

Executable software engineering data is valuable for training SWE agents, but scaling it remains difficult for two reasons: only a small fraction of real repository changes yield verifiable, high-signal task instances, and naively building…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiarong Liang , Zhiheng Lyu , Zijie Liu , Xiangchao Chen , Ping Nie , Kai Zou , Wenhu Chen

Large language model (LLM) coding agents increasingly operate at the repository level, motivating benchmarks that evaluate their ability to optimize entire codebases under realistic constraints. Existing code benchmarks largely rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Atharva Sehgal , James Hou , Akanksha Sarkar , Ishaan Mantripragada , Swarat Chaudhuri , Jennifer J. Sun , Yisong Yue

Agents aspire to eliminate the need for task-specific prompt crafting through autonomous reason-act-observe loops. Still, they are commonly instructed to follow a task-specific plan for guidance, e.g., to resolve software issues following…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shuyang Liu , Saman Dehghan , Jatin Ganhotra , Martin Hirzel , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

Resolving real-world software engineering (SWE) issues with autonomous agents requires complex, long-horizon reasoning. Current pipelines are bottlenecked by unoptimized demonstration data, sparse execution rewards, and computationally…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hao Han , Jin Xie , Xuehao Ma , Weiquan Zhu , Ziyao Zhang , ZhiLiang Long , Hongkai Chen , Qingwen Ye

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

Software issue localization, the task of identifying the precise code locations (files, classes, or functions) relevant to a natural language issue description (e.g., bug report, feature request), is a critical yet time-consuming aspect of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Revanth Gangi Reddy , Tarun Suresh , JaeHyeok Doo , Ye Liu , Xuan Phi Nguyen , Yingbo Zhou , Semih Yavuz , Caiming Xiong , Heng Ji , Shafiq Joty

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming automated program repair (APR) through agent-based approaches that localize bugs, generate patches, and verify fixes. However, the lack of high-quality, scalable training datasets, especially…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Minh V. T. Pham , Huy N. Phan , Hoang N. Phan , Cuong Le Chi , Tien N. Nguyen , 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

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency across a variety of complex tasks. One significant application of LLMs is in tackling software engineering challenges, particularly in resolving real-world tasks on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Chengxing Xie , Bowen Li , Chang Gao , He Du , Wai Lam , Difan Zou , Kai Chen

We propose SWE-Universe, a scalable and efficient framework for automatically constructing real-world software engineering (SWE) verifiable environments from GitHub pull requests (PRs). To overcome the prevalent challenges of automatic…