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Resolving real-world software engineering (SWE) issues with autonomous agents requires complex, long-horizon reasoning. Current pipelines are bottlenecked by unoptimized demonstration data, sparse execution rewards, and computationally…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hao Han , Jin Xie , Xuehao Ma , Weiquan Zhu , Ziyao Zhang , ZhiLiang Long , Hongkai Chen , Qingwen Ye

AI coding agents can resolve real-world software issues, yet they frequently introduce regressions -- breaking tests that previously passed. Current benchmarks focus almost exclusively on resolution rate, leaving regression behavior…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Pepe Alonso , Sergio Yovine , Victor A. Braberman

Resolving issues on code repositories is an important part of software engineering. Various recent systems automatically resolve issues using large language models and agents, often with impressive performance. Unfortunately, most of these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jatin Ganhotra , Sami Serhan , Antonio Abu Nassar , Avraham Shinnar , Ziv Nevo , Martin Hirzel

Automatic program repair at project level may open yet to be seen opportunities in various fields of human activity. Since the SWE-Bench challenge was presented, we have seen numerous of solutions. Patch generation is a part of program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Anton Cheshkov , Pavel Zadorozhny , Rodion Levichev , Evgeny Maslov , Ronaldo Franco Jaldin

LLMs increasingly require surgical model editing to enhance domain-specific capabilities without incurring the computational cost or catastrophic forgetting associated with full fine-tuning. Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Li Lei , Madalina Ciobanu , Qingqing Mao , Ritankar Das

Repository-level code agents have shown strong promise in real-world feature addition tasks, making reliable evaluation of their capabilities increasingly important. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate these agents as black…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shuhan Liu , Zhiyi Zhao , Xing Hu , Kui Liu , Xiaohu Yang , Xin Xia

As agentic coding systems decompose work across multiple model instances, a critical safety question is whether those instances can coordinate to achieve a hidden malicious objective while remaining aligned with user intent. We introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Nikolay Radev , Lennart Haas , Benjamin Arnav , Pablo Bernabeu-Pérez

We present SWE-Gym, the first environment for training real-world software engineering (SWE) agents. SWE-Gym contains 2,438 real-world Python task instances, each comprising a codebase with an executable runtime environment, unit tests, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jiayi Pan , Xingyao Wang , Graham Neubig , Navdeep Jaitly , Heng Ji , Alane Suhr , Yizhe Zhang

LLM agents are expected to complete end-to-end units of work across software tools, business services, and local workspaces. Yet many agent benchmarks freeze a curated task set at release time and grade mainly the final response, making it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Chenxin Li , Zhengyang Tang , Mingxin Huang , Yunlong Lin , Shijue Huang , Shengyuan Liu , Bowen Ye , Rang Li , Lei Li , Benyou Wang , Yixuan Yuan

LLM-agent training pipelines routinely discard failed trajectories even though GPT-4o achieves only 14-20% on WebArena and below 55% pass@1 on ToolBench; even specialised systems at 50-65% leave the majority of trajectories unused. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Liang Ding

Agent skills today are static artifact: authored once -- by human curation or one-shot generation from parametric knowledge -- and then consumed unchanged, with no mechanism to improve from real use. We propose \textbf{SkillEvolver}, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Genrui Zhang , Erle Zhu , Jinfeng Zhou , Caiyan Jia , Hongning Wang

Identifying which software versions are affected by a vulnerability is critical for patching, risk mitigation. Despite a growing body of tools, their real-world effectiveness remains unclear due to narrow evaluation scopes often limited to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xingchu Chen , Chengwei Liu , Jialun Cao , Yang Xiao , Xinyue Cai , Yeting Li , Jingyi Shi , Tianqi Sun , Haiming Chen ang Wei Huo

Evaluating and improving the security capabilities of code agents requires high-quality, executable vulnerability tasks. However, existing works rely on costly, unscalable manual reproduction and suffer from outdated data distributions. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xianzhen Luo , Jingyuan Zhang , Shiqi Zhou , Rain Huang , Chuan Xiao , Qingfu Zhu , Zhiyuan Ma , Xing Yue , Yang Yue , Wencong Zeng , Wanxiang Che

We introduce SWE-ZERO to SWE-HERO, a two-stage SFT recipe that achieves state-of-the-art results on SWE-bench by distilling open-weight frontier LLMs. Our pipeline replaces resource-heavy dependencies with an evolutionary refinement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Nikolai Ludwig , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Somshubra Majumdar , Boris Ginsburg

LLM-based code agents treat repositories as unstructured text, applying edits through brittle string matching that frequently fails due to formatting drift or ambiguous patterns. We propose reframing the codebase as a structured action…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Myeongsoo Kim , Joe Hsu , Dingmin Wang , Shweta Garg , Varun Kumar , Murali Krishna Ramanathan

Software vulnerabilities can cause numerous problems, including crashes, data loss, and security breaches. These issues greatly compromise quality and can negatively impact the market adoption of software applications and systems.…

In recent years, AI-based software engineering has progressed from pre-trained models to advanced agentic workflows, with Software Development Agents representing the next major leap. These agents, capable of reasoning, planning, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhi Chen , Lingxiao Jiang

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…

Automated environment configuration is a critical bottleneck in scaling software engineering (SWE) automation. To provide a reliable evaluation standard for this task, we present Multi-Docker-Eval benchmark. It includes 40 real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Kelin Fu , Tianyu Liu , Zeyu Shang , Yingwei Ma , Jian Yang , Jiaheng Liu , Kaigui Bian

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled intelligent agents that autonomously interact with environments and invoke external tools. Recently, agent-based software repair has drawn wide attention, as repair agents can localize bugs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Quanjun Zhang , Chengyu Gao , Yu Han , Ye Shang , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen , Liang Xiao