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Code Large Language Models (CodeLLMs) have demonstrated impressive proficiency in code completion tasks. However, they often fall short of fully understanding the extensive context of a project repository, such as the intricacies of…

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Code reviews are popular in both industrial and open source projects. The benefits of code reviews are widely recognized and include better code quality and lower likelihood of introducing bugs. However, since code review is a manual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Rosalia Tufano , Luca Pascarella , Michele Tufano , Denys Poshyvanyk , Gabriele Bavota

Repository-level code completion automatically predicts the unfinished code based on the broader information from the repository. Recent strides in Code Large Language Models (code LLMs) have spurred the development of repository-level code…

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This paper proposes a query-level meta-agent named FlowReasoner to automate the design of query-level multi-agent systems, i.e., one system per user query. Our core idea is to incentivize a reasoning-based meta-agent via external execution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hongcheng Gao , Yue Liu , Yufei He , Longxu Dou , Chao Du , Zhijie Deng , Bryan Hooi , Min Lin , Tianyu Pang

The widespread availability of open-source repositories has led to a vast collection of reusable software components, yet their utilization remains manual, error-prone, and disconnected. Developers must navigate documentation, understand…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Linyao Chen , Zimian Peng , Yingxuan Yang , Yikun Wang , Wenzheng Tom Tang , Hiroki H. Kobayashi , Weinan Zhang

Repository aware coding agents often struggle to recover build and test structure, especially in multilingual projects where cross language dependencies are encoded across heterogeneous build systems and tooling. We introduce the Repository…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Tsvi Cherny-Shahar , Amiram Yehudai

Empirical research on code review processes is increasingly central to understanding software quality and collaboration. However, collecting and analyzing review data remains a time-consuming and technically intensive task. Most researchers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Samah Kansab , Francis Bordeleau , Ali Tizghadam

General-purpose automated software engineering (ASE) includes tasks such as code completion, retrieval, repair, QA, and summarization. These tasks require a code retrieval system that can handle specific queries about code entities, or code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pratik Shah , Rajat Ghosh , Aryan Singhal , Debojyoti Dutta

Code review is a common practice in software development and often conducted before code changes are merged into the code repository. A number of approaches for automatically recommending appropriate reviewers have been proposed to match…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Ruiyin Li , Peng Liang , Paris Avgeriou

Recently, there has been increasing interest in using Large Language Models (LLMs) to construct complex multi-agent systems to perform tasks such as compiling literature reviews, drafting consumer reports, and planning vacations. Many tools…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Andrew Zhu , Liam Dugan , Chris Callison-Burch

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved automated code generation. While existing approaches have achieved strong performance at the function and file levels, real-world software engineering requires…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yicheng Tao , Yuante Li , Yao Qin , Yepang Liu

Code localization is a fundamental challenge in repository-level software engineering tasks such as bug fixing. While existing methods equip language agents with comprehensive tools/interfaces to fetch information from the repository, they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Boshi Wang , Weijian Xu , Yunsheng Li , Mei Gao , Yujia Xie , Huan Sun , Dongdong Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited significant proficiency in code debugging, especially in automatic program repair, which may substantially reduce the time consumption of developers and enhance their efficiency. Significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jingjing Liu , Zeming Liu , Zihao Cheng , Mengliang He , Xiaoming Shi , Yuhang Guo , Xiangrong Zhu , Yuanfang Guo , Yunhong Wang , Haifeng Wang

Existing prompt-optimization techniques rely on local signals to update behavior, often neglecting broader and recurring patterns across tasks, leading to poor generalization; they further rely on full-prompt rewrites or unstructured…

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Screening is a time-consuming and labour-intensive yet required task for medical systematic reviews, as tens of thousands of studies often need to be screened. Prioritising relevant studies to be screened allows downstream systematic review…

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Automatic program repair can be a challenging task, especially when resolving complex issues at a repository-level, which often involves issue reproduction, fault localization, code repair, testing and validation. Issues of this scale can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Joseph Townsend , Chandresh Pravin , Kwun Ho Ngan , Matthieu Parizy

Repository-level software engineering tasks require large language models (LLMs) to efficiently navigate and extract information from complex codebases through multi-turn tool interactions. Existing approaches face significant limitations:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Guochang Li , Yuchen Liu , Zhen Qin , Yunkun Wang , Jianping Zhong , Chen Zhi , Binhua Li , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li , Shuiguang Deng

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code translation, typically evaluated using benchmarks like CodeTransOcean and RepoTransBench. However, dependency-free benchmarks fail to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Guangsheng Ou , Mingwei Liu , Yuxuan Chen , Yanlin Wang , Xin Peng , Zibin Zheng

The rapid rise in AI conference submissions has driven increasing exploration of large language models (LLMs) for peer review support. However, LLM-based reviewers often generate superficial, formulaic comments lacking substantive,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zhuofeng Li , Yi Lu , Dongfu Jiang , Haoxiang Zhang , Yuyang Bai , Chuan Li , Yu Wang , Shuiwang Ji , Jianwen Xie , Yu Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown remarkable progress in code generation, yet their ability to construct complete software repositories from scratch remains poorly understood. A fundamental bottleneck is the lack of…

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