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The application of Artificial Intelligence has become a powerful approach to detecting software vulnerabilities. However, effective vulnerability detection relies on accurately capturing the semantic structure of code and its contextual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-12 José Gonçalves , Miguel Silva , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Improving open-source models on real-world SWE tasks (solving GITHUB issues) faces two key challenges: 1) scalable curation of execution environments to train these models, and, 2) optimal scaling of test-time compute. We introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Naman Jain , Jaskirat Singh , Manish Shetty , Liang Zheng , Koushik Sen , Ion Stoica

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as capable coding assistants that operate over large codebases through either agentic exploration or full-context generation. Existing benchmarks capture a broad range of coding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jiseung Hong , Benjamin G. Ascoli , Jinho D. Choi

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

Writing code requires significant time and effort in software development. To automate this process, researchers have made substantial progress using Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation. Many benchmarks like HumanEval and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jia Li , Hongyi Deng , Yiran Zhang , Kechi Zhang , Tianqi Shao , Tiankuo Zhao , Weinan Wang , Zhi Jin , Ge Li , Yang Liu , Yingtao Fang , Yihong Dong

Recent advances in language model (LM) agents have significantly improved automated software engineering (SWE). Prior work has proposed various agentic workflows and training strategies as well as analyzed failure modes of agentic systems…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in downstream software engineering tasks such as Automated Program Repair (APR). In particular, there has been a lot of research on repository-level issue-resolution benchmarks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Anvith Pabba , Alex Mathai , Anindya Chakraborty , Baishakhi Ray

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential as autonomous software engineering (SWE) agents. Recent work has further explored augmenting these agents with memory mechanisms to support long-horizon reasoning.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Kangning Shen , Jingyuan Zhang , Chenxi Sun , Wencong Zeng , Yang Yue

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant capability in code generation, but their potential in code efficiency optimization remains underexplored. Previous LLM-based code efficiency optimization approaches exclusively…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaoxue Ren , Jun Wan , Yun Peng , Zhongxin Liu , Ming Liang , Dajun Chen , Wei Jiang , Yong Li

Software Engineering Agents (SWE-Agents) have proven effective for traditional software engineering tasks with accessible codebases, but their performance for embodied tasks requiring well-designed information discovery remains unexplored.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Timothé Boulet , Xavier Hinaut , Clément Moulin-Frier

Issue resolution has made remarkable progress thanks to the advanced reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Recently, agent-based frameworks such as SWE-agent have further advanced this progress by enabling autonomous,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Han Li , Yuling Shi , Shaoxin Lin , Xiaodong Gu , Heng Lian , Xin Wang , Yantao Jia , Tao Huang , Qianxiang Wang

Implementing new features in repository-level codebases is a crucial application of code generation models. However, current benchmarks lack a dedicated evaluation framework for this capability. To fill this gap, we introduce FEA-Bench, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wei Li , Xin Zhang , Zhongxin Guo , Shaoguang Mao , Wen Luo , Guangyue Peng , Yangyu Huang , Houfeng Wang , Scarlett Li

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

LLM agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in software development, but their performance is hampered by long interaction contexts, which incur high API costs and latency. While various context compression approaches such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yuhang Wang , Yuling Shi , Mo Yang , Rongrui Zhang , Shilin He , Heng Lian , Yuting Chen , Siyu Ye , Kai Cai , Xiaodong Gu

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred interest in deploying LLM agents to undertake tasks in the world. LLMs are often deployed in agent systems: code that orchestrates LLM calls and provides them with tools. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Maxime Robeyns , Martin Szummer , Laurence Aitchison

Prior representative ReAct-style approaches in autonomous Software Engineering (SWE) typically lack the explicit System-2 reasoning required for deep analysis and handling complex edge cases. While recent reasoning models demonstrate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shuquan Lian , Juncheng Liu , Yazhe Chen , Yuhong Chen , Hui Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code understanding and generation. However, their effectiveness on non-code Software Engineering (SE) tasks remains underexplored. We present 'Software Engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Fabian C. Peña , Steffen Herbold

We introduce SWE-ZERO to SWE-HERO, a two-stage SFT recipe that achieves state-of-the-art results on SWE-bench by distilling open-weight frontier LLMs. Our pipeline replaces resource-heavy dependencies with an evolutionary refinement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Nikolai Ludwig , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Somshubra Majumdar , Boris Ginsburg

Software vulnerabilities continue to grow in volume and remain difficult to detect in practice. Although learning-based vulnerability detection has progressed, existing benchmarks are largely function-centric and fail to capture realistic,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Amine Lbath

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code generation, but their proficiency in producing secure code remains a critical, under-explored area. Existing benchmarks often fall short by relying on synthetic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yanlin Wang , Ziyao Zhang , Chong Wang , Xinyi Xu , Mingwei Liu , Yong Wang , Jiachi Chen , Zibin Zheng