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Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred interest in deploying LLM agents to undertake tasks in the world. LLMs are often deployed in agent systems: code that orchestrates LLM calls and provides them with tools. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Maxime Robeyns , Martin Szummer , Laurence Aitchison

Rigorous software testing is crucial for developing and maintaining high-quality code, making automated test generation a promising avenue for both improving software quality and boosting the effectiveness of code generation methods.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Niels Mündler , Mark Niklas Müller , Jingxuan He , Martin Vechev

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

LLM agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in software development, but their performance is hampered by long interaction contexts, which incur high API costs and latency. While various context compression approaches such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yuhang Wang , Yuling Shi , Mo Yang , Rongrui Zhang , Shilin He , Heng Lian , Yuting Chen , Siyu Ye , Kai Cai , Xiaodong Gu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated effectiveness in code generation tasks. To enable LLMs to address more complex coding challenges, existing research has focused on crafting multi-agent systems with agentic workflows, where…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Siwei Liu , Jinyuan Fang , Han Zhou , Yingxu Wang , Zaiqiao Meng

LLM-based agents have shown promising capabilities in a growing range of software engineering (SWE) tasks. However, advancing this field faces two critical challenges. First, high-quality training data is scarce, especially data that…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to software engineering (SWE), with SWE-bench as a key benchmark. Solutions are split into SWE-Agent frameworks with multi-turn interactions and workflow-based Agentless methods with…

Auto-regressive LLM-based software engineering (SWE) agents, henceforth SWE agents, have made tremendous progress (>60% on SWE-Bench Verified) on real-world coding challenges including GitHub issue resolution. SWE agents use a combination…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Timothy Bula , Saurabh Pujar , Luca Buratti , Mihaela Bornea , Avirup Sil

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed the software engineering landscape. Recently, numerous LLM-based agents have been developed to address real-world software issue fixing tasks. Despite their state-of-the-art performance, Despite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xin-Cheng Wen , Binbin Chen , Haoxuan Lan , Hang Yu , Peng Di , Cuiyun Gao

Context. LLM-based autonomous agents in software engineering rely on large, proprietary models, limiting local deployment. This has spurred interest in Small Language Models (SLMs), but their practical effectiveness and efficiency within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Arihant Tripathy , Ch Pavan Harshit , Karthik Vaidhyanathan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential as autonomous software engineering (SWE) agents. Recent work has further explored augmenting these agents with memory mechanisms to support long-horizon reasoning.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Kangning Shen , Jingyuan Zhang , Chenxi Sun , Wencong Zeng , Yang Yue

Small language models (SLMs) offer compelling advantages in cost, latency, and adaptability, but have so far lagged behind larger models on long-horizon software engineering tasks such as SWE-bench, where they suffer from pervasive action…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Patrick Tser Jern Kon , Archana Pradeep , Ang Chen , Alexander P. Ellis , Warren Hunt , Zijian Wang , John Yang , Samuel Thompson

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong reasoning and coding capabilities, yet they struggle to generalize to real-world software engineering (SWE) problems that are long-horizon and out of distribution. Existing systems often rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Iris Xu , Guangtao Zeng , Zexue He , Charles Jin , Aldo Pareja , Dan Gutfreund , Chuang Gan , Zhang-Wei Hong

Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping almost all industries, including software engineering. In recent years, a number of LLM agents have been proposed to solve real-world software problems. Such software agents are typically equipped…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Zhe Wang , Yan Yang , Yuxiang Wei , Lingming Zhang

Rapidly increasing context lengths have led to the assumption that large language models (LLMs) can directly reason over entire codebases. Concurrently, recent advances in LLMs have enabled strong performance on software engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ravi Raju , Mengmeng Ji , Shubhangi Upasani , Bo Li , Urmish Thakker

Despite recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), complex Software Engineering (SE) tasks require more collaborative and specialized approaches. This concept paper systematically reviews the emerging paradigm of LLM-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yongjian Tang , Thomas Runkler

Automating the adaptation of software engineering (SE) research artifacts across datasets is essential for scalability and reproducibility, yet it remains largely unstudied. Recent advances in large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jingyi Chen , Xiaoyan Guo , Songqiang Chen , Shing-Chi Cheung , Jiasi Shen

Agentic repository-level code understanding is essential for automating complex software engineering tasks, yet the field lacks reliable benchmarks. Existing evaluations often overlook the long tail topics and rely on popular repositories…

Prior representative ReAct-style approaches in autonomous Software Engineering (SWE) typically lack the explicit System-2 reasoning required for deep analysis and handling complex edge cases. While recent reasoning models demonstrate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shuquan Lian , Juncheng Liu , Yazhe Chen , Yuhong Chen , Hui Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized software engineering (SE), showcasing remarkable proficiency in various coding tasks. Despite recent advancements that have enabled the creation of autonomous software agents utilizing LLMs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Huy Nhat Phan , Tien N. Nguyen , Phong X. Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui