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The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into software engineering has driven a transition from traditional rule-based systems to autonomous agentic systems capable of solving complex problems. However, systematic progress is…

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LLM-based agent systems are emerging as a new software paradigm and have been widely adopted across diverse domains such as medicine, robotics, and programming. However, maintaining these systems requires substantial effort, as they are…

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Automating physical database design has remained a long-term interest in database research due to substantial performance gains afforded by optimised structures. Despite significant progress, a majority of today's commercial solutions are…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-24 R. Malinga Perera , Bastian Oetomo , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Renata Borovica-Gajic

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly utilised in software engineering, yet their ability to generate structured artefacts such as UML diagrams remains underexplored. In this work we present NOMAD, a cognitively inspired, modular…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Polydoros Giannouris , Sophia Ananiadou

This paper tackles a multi-agent bandit setting where $M$ agents cooperate together to solve the same instance of a $K$-armed stochastic bandit problem. The agents are \textit{heterogeneous}: each agent has limited access to a local subset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Lin Yang , Yu-zhen Janice Chen , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , John CS Lui , Don Towsley

Recent advancements in software engineering agents have demonstrated promising capabilities in automating program improvements. However, their reliance on closed-source or resource-intensive models introduces significant deployment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yingwei Ma , Yongbin Li , Yihong Dong , Xue Jiang , Rongyu Cao , Jue Chen , Fei Huang , Binhua Li

We analytically derive a class of optimal solutions to a linear program (LP) for automated mechanism design that satisfies efficiency, incentive compatibility, strong budget balance (SBB), and individual rationality (IR), where SBB and IR…

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Long-context modeling is critical for a wide range of real-world tasks, including long-context question answering, summarization, and complex reasoning tasks. Recent studies have explored fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Shaohua Duan , Pengcheng Huang , Xinze Li , Zhenghao Liu , Xiaoyuan Yi , Yukun Yan , Shuo Wang , Yu Gu , Ge Yu , Maosong Sun

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown great potential in addressing real-world data science problems. LLM-driven data science agents promise to automate the entire machine learning pipeline, yet their real-world effectiveness remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yixin Ou , Yujie Luo , Jingsheng Zheng , Lanning Wei , Zhuoyun Yu , Shuofei Qiao , Jintian Zhang , Da Zheng , Yuren Mao , Yunjun Gao , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

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

Recent advancements in automatic code generation using large language model (LLM) agent have brought us closer to the future of automated software development. However, existing single-agent approaches face limitations in generating and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yoichi Ishibashi , Yoshimasa Nishimura

The multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem is an active learning framework that aims to select the best among a set of actions by sequentially observing rewards. Recently, it has become popular for a number of applications over wireless networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Osama A. Hanna , Lin F. Yang , Christina Fragouli

We study the problem of selecting large language models (LLMs) for user queries in settings where multiple LLM providers submit the cost of solving a query. From the users' perspective, choosing an optimal model is a sequential,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Pronoy Patra , Sankarshan Damle , Manisha Padala , Sujit Gujar

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced tool-augmented agents, enabling autonomous reasoning via API interactions. However, executing multi-step tasks within massive tool libraries remains challenging due to two critical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Rongzhe Wei , Ge Shi , Min Cheng , Na Zhang , Pan Li , Sarthak Ghosh , Vaibhav Gorde , Leman Akoglu

The rapid advancement in large language models (LLMs) has brought forth a diverse range of models with varying capabilities that excel in different tasks and domains. However, selecting the optimal LLM for user queries often involves a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yang Li

Choosing the right system architecture for the problem at hand is challenging due to the large design space and high uncertainty in the early stage of the design process. Formulating the architecting process as an optimization problem may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Jasper H. Bussemaker , Paul Saves , Nathalie Bartoli , Thierry Lefebvre , Rémi Lafage

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have largely focused on depth scaling, where a single agent solves long-horizon problems with multi-turn reasoning and tool use. However, as tasks grow broader, the key bottleneck shifts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zelai Xu , Zhexuan Xu , Ruize Zhang , Chunyang Zhu , Shi Yu , Weilin Liu , Quanlu Zhang , Wenbo Ding , Chao Yu , Yu Wang

We study collaborative learning in multi-agent Bayesian bandit problems, where strategic agents collectively solve the same bandit instance. While multiple agents can accelerate learning by sharing information, strategic agents might prefer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Idan Barnea , Ofir Schlisselberg , Yishay Mansour

As scaling large language models faces prohibitive costs, multi-agent systems emerge as a promising alternative, though challenged by static knowledge assumptions and coordination inefficiencies. We introduces Knowledge-Aware Bayesian…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jusheng Zhang , Zimeng Huang , Yijia Fan , Ningyuan Liu , Mingyan Li , Zhuojie Yang , Jiawei Yao , Jian Wang , Keze Wang

Language model (LM) agents are increasingly being used to automate complicated tasks in digital environments. Just as humans benefit from powerful software applications, such as integrated development environments, for complex tasks like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-13 John Yang , Carlos E. Jimenez , Alexander Wettig , Kilian Lieret , Shunyu Yao , Karthik Narasimhan , Ofir Press