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LLMs generate buggy code: 29.6% of SWE-bench solved patches fail, 62% of BaxBench solutions have vulnerabilities, and existing tools only catch 65% of bugs with 35% false positives. We built CodeX-Verify, a multi-agent system that uses four…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Shreshth Rajan

With the rapid advancement of AI in code generation, cybersecurity detection engineering faces new opportunities to automate traditionally manual processes. Detection authoring - the practice of creating executable logic that identifies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Fatih Bulut , Carlo DePaolis , Raghav Batta , Anjali Mangal

Agentic Software Engineering (SE 3.0) represents a new era where intelligent agents are tasked not with simple code generation, but with achieving complex, goal-oriented SE objectives. To harness these new capabilities while ensuring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Ahmed E. Hassan , Hao Li , Dayi Lin , Bram Adams , Tse-Hsun Chen , Yutaro Kashiwa , Dong Qiu

AI agents are increasingly being deployed to automate tasks, often based on underspecified user instructions. Making unwarranted assumptions to compensate for the missing information and failing to ask clarifying questions can lead to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sanidhya Vijayvargiya , Xuhui Zhou , Akhila Yerukola , Maarten Sap , Graham Neubig

Modern AI agents execute real-world side effects through tool calls such as file operations, shell commands, HTTP requests, and database queries. A single unsafe action, including accidental deletion, credential exposure, or data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Chenglin Yang

The use of static analysis tools has gained increasing popularity among developers in the last few years. However, the widespread adoption of static analysis tools is hindered by their high false alarm rates. Previous studies have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhipeng Xue , Zhipeng Gao , Tongtong Xu , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Shanping Li

As emerging software vulnerabilities continuously threaten enterprises and Internet services, there is a critical need for improved security research capabilities. This paper introduces the Security Exploit Telemetry Collection (SETC)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ryan Holeman , John Hastings , Varghese Mathew Vaidyan

Agentic systems have been widely studied to automate software engineering jobs such as bug fixing. As these systems increasingly tackle complex tasks, understanding where and why they fail becomes essential for iterative refinement and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Minxing Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Yintong Huo

Software supply-chain security requires provenance mechanisms that support reproducibility and vulnerability assessment under dynamic execution conditions. Conventional Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) provide static dependency…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Petar Radanliev , Carsten Maple , Omar Santos , Kayvan Atefi

Automatic multi-agent systems aim to instantiate agent workflows without relying on manually designed or fixed orchestration. However, existing automatic MAS approaches remain only partially adaptive: they either perform training-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yaolun Zhang , Yujie Zhao , Nan Wang , Yiran Wu , Jiayu Chang , Yizhao Chen , Qingyun Wu , Jishen Zhao , Huazheng Wang

Recent research has shown Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to be vulnerable to adversarial examples that induce desired misclassifications in the models. Such risks impede the application of machine learning in security-sensitive domains.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Raj Vardhan , Ninghao Liu , Phakpoom Chinprutthiwong , Weijie Fu , Zhenyu Hu , Xia Ben Hu , Guofei Gu

Ensuring the reliability and resilience of modern web applications remains a critical challenge due to increasing system complexity and dynamic runtime environments. This study proposes a modular self-healing framework based on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Sales Aribe , Rov Japheth Oracion

Modern distributed systems employ aggressive optimization strategies that create latent risks - hidden vulnerabilities where exceptional performance masks catastrophic fragility when optimizations fail. Cache layers achieving 99% hit rates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jahidul Arafat , Kh. M. Moniruzzaman , Shamim Hossain , Fariha Tasmin

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Spandan Garg , Benjamin Steenhoek , Yufan Huang

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a surge in applications that facilitate collaboration among multiple agents, assisting humans in their daily tasks. However, a significant gap remains in assessing to what…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Negar Arabzadeh , Siqing Huo , Nikhil Mehta , Qinqyun Wu , Chi Wang , Ahmed Awadallah , Charles L. A. Clarke , Julia Kiseleva

Since the inception of VisiCalc over four decades ago, spreadsheets have undergone a gradual transformation, evolving from simple ledger automation tools to the current state of Excel, which can be described as an Integrated Development…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Andrew Kumiega

Tool-using agent systems powered by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across web, app, operating-system, and transactional environments. Yet existing safety benchmarks still emphasize explicit risks, potentially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zuoyu Zhang , Yancheng Zhu

Unlike traditional automation tools or static LLM-based systems, agents combine decision-making and tool utilization to accomplish complex tasks, showing great potential in software engineering. However, existing studies largely focus on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhuowen Yin , Cuifeng Gao , Chunsong Fan , Wenzhang Yang , Yinxing Xue , Lijun Zhang

Multi-Agent LLM Systems (MAS) have been adopted to automate complex human workflows by breaking down tasks into subtasks. However, due to the non-deterministic behavior of LLM agents and the intricate interactions between agents, MAS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Mingxuan Hui , Xinyue Li , Lu Wang , Chengcheng Wan , Yifan Wang , Yimian Wang , Feiyue Song , Beining Shi , Yixi Li , Yaxiao Li

Automated vulnerability reproduction from CVE descriptions requires generating executable Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploits and validating them in target environments. This process is critical in software security research and practice, yet…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bin Liu , Yanjie Zhao , Zhenpeng Chen , Guoai Xu , Haoyu Wang