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Current benchmarks for evaluating software engineering agents, such as SWE-Bench Verified, are predominantly derived from GitHub issues and fail to accurately reflect how developers interact with chat-based coding assistants in integrated…

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When assessing the quality of coding agents, predominant benchmarks focus on solving single issues on GitHub, such as SWE-Bench. In contrast, in real use, these agents solve more various and complex tasks that involve other skills such as…

Recent research has achieved impressive results on understanding and improving source code by building up on machine-learning techniques developed for natural languages. A significant advancement in natural-language understanding has come…

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Prior works on training software engineering agents have explored utilizing existing resources such as issues on GitHub repositories to construct software engineering tasks and corresponding test suites. These approaches face two key…

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Large language model (LLM)-powered agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in automating software engineering tasks such as static bug fixing. However, in the real world, the development of mature software is typically predicated on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jialong Chen , Xander Xu , Hu Wei , Chuan Chen , Bing Zhao

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has led to dramatic improvements across a wide range of natural language tasks. Their performance on certain tasks can be further enhanced by incorporating test-time reasoning techniques. These…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Saurabh Pujar , Ira Ceka , Irene Manotas , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray , Shyam Ramji

Achieving mastery in real world software engineering tasks is fundamentally bottlenecked by the scarcity of large scale, high quality training data. Scaling such data has been limited by the complexity of environment setup, unit test…

The emergence of long-context language models with context windows extending to millions of tokens has created new opportunities for sophisticated code understanding and software development evaluation. We propose LoCoBench, a comprehensive…

Verification is critical for improving agents: it provides the reward signal for Reinforcement Learning and enables inference-time gains through Test-Time Scaling (TTS). Despite its importance, verification in software engineering (SWE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Mohit Raghavendra , Anisha Gunjal , Bing Liu , Yunzhong He

Agents based on large language models have recently shown strong potential on real-world software engineering (SWE) tasks that require long-horizon interaction with repository-scale codebases. However, most existing agents rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shukai Liu , Jian Yang , Bo Jiang , Yizhi Li , Jinyang Guo , Xianglong Liu , Bryan Dai

Modern coding scaffolds turn LLMs into capable software agents, but their ability to follow scaffold-specified instructions remains under-examined, especially when constraints are heterogeneous and persist across interactions. To fill this…

Coding agents powered by large language models are increasingly expected to perform realistic software maintenance tasks beyond isolated issue resolution. Existing benchmarks have shifted toward realistic software evolution, but they rarely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Man Ho Lam , Chaozheng Wang , Hange Liu , Jingyu Xiao , Haau-sing Li , Jen-tse Huang , Terry Yue Zhuo , Michael R. Lyu

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering has revealed critical limitations in existing benchmarks, particularly the widely used SWE-bench dataset. Recent studies have uncovered severe data contamination…

Code review is a cornerstone of software quality assurance, and recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in its automation. However, existing benchmarks for LLM-based code review face three major limitations. Lack…

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Large language models are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems to overcome context limitations by distributing information across agents. Yet whether agents can reliably compute with distributed information, rather than merely…

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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…

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Current AI-powered code assistance tools often struggle with poorly-defined problem statements that lack sufficient task context and requirements specification. Recent analysis of software engineering agents reveals that failures on such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Manan Suri , Xiangci Li , Mehdi Shojaie , Songyang Han , Chao-Chun Hsu , Shweta Garg , Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Varun Kumar

The application of large language models (LLMs) in the field of coding is evolving rapidly: from code assistants, to autonomous coding agents, and then to generating complete projects through natural language. Early LLM code benchmarks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kai Xu , YiWei Mao , XinYi Guan , ZiLong Feng

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to support scientific research, and recent benchmarks report progress in code repair and autonomous experimentation. However, these evaluations typically assume a pre-configured execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yubang Wang , Chenxi Zhang , Bowen Chen , Zezheng Huai , Zihao Dai , Xinchi Chen , Yuxin Wang , Yining Zheng , Jingjing Gong , Xipeng Qiu

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