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Agentic coding tools receive goals written in natural language as input, break them down into specific tasks, and write or execute the actual code with minimal human intervention. Central to this process are agent context files ("READMEs…

A growing number of empirical software engineering researchers suggest that a complementary focus on theory is required if the discipline is to mature. A first step in theory-building involves the establishment of suitable theoretical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Diana Kirk , Stephen G. MacDonell

We present MOSAIC, a multi-agent Large Language Model (LLM) framework for solving challenging scientific coding tasks. Unlike general-purpose coding, scientific workflows require algorithms that are rigorous, interconnected with deep domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Siddeshwar Raghavan , Tanwi Mallick

While "Intent-oriented programming" (or "Vibe Coding") redefines software engineering, existing code agents remain tethered to static code snapshots. Consequently, they struggle to model the critical information embedded in the temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yi-Xuan Deng , Xiaoqin Liu , Yi Zhang , Guo-Wei Yang , Shuojin Yang

Designing realistic and functional 3D indoor rooms is essential for a wide range of applications, including interior design, virtual reality, gaming, and embodied AI. While recent MLLM-based approaches have shown great potential for 3D room…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yixuan Yang , Zhen Luo , Wanshui Gan , Jinkun Hao , Junru Lu , Jinghao Yan , Zhaoyang Lyu , Xudong Xu

Code provides a general syntactic structure to build complex programs and perform precise computations when paired with a code interpreter - we hypothesize that language models (LMs) can leverage code-writing to improve Chain of Thought…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Chengshu Li , Jacky Liang , Andy Zeng , Xinyun Chen , Karol Hausman , Dorsa Sadigh , Sergey Levine , Li Fei-Fei , Fei Xia , Brian Ichter

AI agents -- systems that combine foundation models with reasoning, planning, memory, and tool use -- are rapidly becoming a practical interface between natural-language intent and real-world computation. This survey synthesizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Bin Xu

Large Language Model (LLM) coding agents typically explore codebases through repeated file-reading and grep-searching, consuming thousands of tokens per query without structural understanding. We present Codebase-Memory, an open-source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Martin Vogel , Falk Meyer-Eschenbach , Severin Kohler , Elias Grünewald , Felix Balzer

Spatial aspects of computation are becoming increasingly relevant in Computer Science, especially in the field of collective adaptive systems and when dealing with systems distributed in physical space. Traditional formal verification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Vincenzo Ciancia , Diego Latella , Michele Loreti , Mieke Massink

In architectural interior design, miscommunication frequently arises as clients lack design knowledge, while designers struggle to explain complex spatial relationships, leading to delayed timelines and financial losses. Recent advancements…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ren Jian Lim , Rushi Dai

Cybersecurity is a relentless arms race, with AI driven offensive systems evolving faster than traditional defenses can adapt. Research and tooling remain fragmented across isolated defensive functions, creating blind spots that adversaries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Mudita Khurana , Raunak Jain

Existing frameworks for LLM-based agent architectures describe systems from a single perspective: industry guides (Anthropic, Google, LangChain) focus on execution topology -- how data flows -- while cognitive science surveys focus on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jia Huang , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Software architecture models capture early design decisions that strongly influence system quality attributes, including security. However, architecture-level security assessment and feedback are often absent in practice, allowing security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mahdi Jafari , Rahul Sharma , Sami Naim , Christopher Gerking , Ralf Reussner

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

Large Language Model agents increasingly operate external systems through programmatic interfaces, yet practitioners lack empirical guidance on how to structure the context these agents consume. Using SQL generation as a proxy for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Damon McMillan

Resolving team conflicts requires not only task-specific competence, but also social intelligence to find common ground and build consensus. As AI agents increasingly collaborate on complex work, they must develop coordination capabilities…

Agentic security systems increasingly audit live targets with tool-using LLMs, but prior systems fix a single coordination topology, leaving unclear when additional agents help and when they only add cost. We treat topology choice as an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Isaac David , Arthur Gervais

Existing LLM agents for computational materials science are constrained by pipeline-bounded architectures tied to specific simulation codes and by dependence on manually written tool functions that grow with task scope. We present MatClaw,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-25 Chenmu Zhang , Boris I. Yakobson

The Entity-Component-System (ECS) software design pattern, long used in game development, encourages a clean separation of identity (entities), data properties (components), and computational behaviors (systems). Programs written using the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Patrick Redmond , Jonathan Castello , José Manuel Calderón Trilla , Lindsey Kuper

Software engineering agents have shown significant promise in writing code. As AI agents permeate code writing, and generate huge volumes of code automatically -- the matter of code quality comes front and centre. As the automatically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yuntong Zhang , Zhiyuan Pan , Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Haifeng Ruan , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Abhik Roychoudhury