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Automated Program Repair (APR) is essential for ensuring software reliability and quality while enhancing efficiency and reducing developers' workload. Although rule-based and learning-based APR methods have demonstrated their…

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Automatic program repair (APR) aims to reduce the manual efforts required to identify and fix errors in source code. Before the rise of LLM-based agents, a common strategy was to increase the number of generated patches, sometimes to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Fernando Vallecillos Ruiz , Max Hort , Leon Moonen

In recent years, Large language model-powered Automated Program Repair (LAPR) techniques have achieved state-of-the-art bug-fixing performance and have been pervasively applied and studied in both industry and academia. Nonetheless, LLMs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Pengyu Xue , Linhao Wu , Zhen Yang , Zhongxing Yu , Zhi Jin , Ge Li , Yan Xiao , Shuo Liu , Xinyi Li , Hongyi Lin , Jingwen Wu

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

Software defects are an inherent part of software development and maintenance. To address these defects, Automated Program Repair (APR) has been developed to fix bugs automatically. With the advent of Large Language Models, Code Language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yunan Wang , Tingyu Guo , Zilong Huang , Yuan Yuan

Automated program repair (APR) aims to fix software bugs automatically and plays a crucial role in software development and maintenance. With the recent advances in deep learning (DL), an increasing number of APR techniques have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Yuxiang Ma , Weisong Sun , Zhenyu Chen

Code Large Language Models (CLLMs) have exhibited outstanding performance in program synthesis, attracting the focus of the research community. The evaluation of CLLM's program synthesis capability has generally relied on manually curated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Longtian Wang , Tianlin Li , Xiaofei Xie , Yuhan Zhi , Jian Wang , Chao Shen

Automated program repair (APR) is designed to automate the process of bug-fixing. In recent years, thanks to the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), automated repair has achieved remarkable progress. Advanced APR techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Aolin Chen , Haojun Wu , Qi Xin , Steven P. Reiss , Jifeng Xuan

Automated Program Repair (APR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for reducing debugging time and improving the overall efficiency of software development. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shunyu Liu , Guangdong Bai , Mark Utting , Guowei Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promising performance on various programming tasks, including Automatic Program Repair (APR). However, most approaches to LLM-based APR are limited to the static analysis of the programs, while disregarding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Mirazul Haque , Petr Babkin , Farima Farmahinifarahani , Manuela Veloso

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

[...] Since then, various APR approaches, especially those leveraging the power of large language models (LLMs), have been rapidly developed to fix general software bugs. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of these advanced techniques in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Anh Ho , Thanh Le-Cong , Bach Le , Christine Rizkallah

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

LLM-based automated program repair (APR) techniques have shown promising results in reducing debugging costs. However, prior results can be affected by data leakage: large language models (LLMs) may memorize bug fixes when evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Milan De Koning , Ali Asgari , Pouria Derakhshanfar , Annibale Panichella

Automated Program Repair (APR) aspires to automatically generate patches for an input buggy program. Traditional APR tools typically focus on specific bug types and fixes through the use of templates, heuristics, and formal specifications.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Yifeng Ding , Lingming Zhang

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to automatically generate patches for rectifying software bugs. Recent strides in Large Language Models (LLM), such as ChatGPT, have yielded encouraging outcomes in APR, especially within the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiaolong Kong , Mingfei Cheng , Xiaofei Xie , Shangqing Liu , Xiaoning Du , Qi Guo

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have accelerated the development of AI-driven automated program repair (APR) solutions. However, these solutions are typically evaluated using static benchmarks such as Defects4J and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yinghang Ma , Jiho Shin , Leuson Da Silva , Zhen Ming , Jiang , Song Wang , Foutse Khomh , Shin Hwei Tan

The advance in machine learning (ML)-driven natural language process (NLP) points a promising direction for automatic bug fixing for software programs, as fixing a buggy program can be transformed to a translation task. While software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Wenshuo Wang , Chen Wu , Liang Cheng , Yang Zhang

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to fix bugs by generating patches. And existing work has demonstrated that "pre-training and fine-tuning" paradigm enables Large Language Models (LLMs) improve fixing capabilities on APR. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Guochang Li , Chen Zhi , Jialiang Chen , Junxiao Han , Shuiguang Deng

This paper presents a novel methodology for enhancing Automated Program Repair (APR) through synthetic data generation utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs). Current APR systems are constrained by the limited availability of high-quality…

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