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As autonomous code agents move toward end-to-end software development, evaluating their practical autonomy becomes critical. Current benchmarks hide friction by testing agents in pre-configured environments, and their static evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hao Guan , Lingyue Fu , Shao Zhang , Yaoming Zhu , Kangning Zhang , Lin Qiu , Xunliang Cai , Xuezhi Cao , Weiwen Liu , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

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

Recent advancements in software engineering agents have demonstrated promising capabilities in automating program improvements. However, their reliance on closed-source or resource-intensive models introduces significant deployment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yingwei Ma , Yongbin Li , Yihong Dong , Xue Jiang , Rongyu Cao , Jue Chen , Fei Huang , Binhua Li

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

Despite recent progress in Language Models (LMs) for software engineering, collecting training data remains a significant pain point. Existing datasets are small, with at most 1,000s of training instances from 11 or fewer GitHub…

Issue resolution, a complex Software Engineering (SWE) task integral to real-world development, has emerged as a compelling challenge for artificial intelligence. The establishment of benchmarks like SWE-bench revealed this task as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Caihua Li , Lianghong Guo , Yanlin Wang , Daya Guo , Wei Tao , Zhenyu Shan , Mingwei Liu , Jiachi Chen , Haoyu Song , Duyu Tang , Hongyu Zhang , Zibin Zheng

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has led to dramatic improvements across a wide range of natural language tasks. Their performance on certain tasks can be further enhanced by incorporating test-time reasoning techniques. These…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Saurabh Pujar , Ira Ceka , Irene Manotas , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray , Shyam Ramji

In this paper, we introduce SWE-QA, a text and code corpus aimed at benchmarking multi-hop code comprehension, addressing the gap between simplified evaluation tasks and the complex reasoning required in real-world software development.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Laïla Elkoussy , Julien Perez

Recent advances in large language model (LLM) agents have shown remarkable progress in software issue resolution, leveraging advanced techniques such as multi-agent collaboration and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). However, current agents…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Silin Chen , Shaoxin Lin , Yuling Shi , Heng Lian , Xiaodong Gu , Longfei Yun , Dong Chen , Lin Cao , Jiyang Liu , Nu Xia , Qianxiang Wang

Developing high-performance software is a complex task that requires specialized expertise. We introduce GSO, a benchmark for evaluating language models' capabilities in developing high-performance software. We develop an automated pipeline…

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Large language models have advanced software engineering automation, yet resolving real-world software issues remains difficult because it requires repository-level reasoning, accurate diagnostics, and strong verification signals. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-21 KeFan Li , Mengfei Wang , Hengzhi Zhang , Zhichao Li , Yuan Yuan , Mu Li , Xiang Gao , Hailong Sun , Chunming Hu , Weifeng Lv

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

Language models have outpaced our ability to evaluate them effectively, but for their future development it is essential to study the frontier of their capabilities. We find real-world software engineering to be a rich, sustainable, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Carlos E. Jimenez , John Yang , Alexander Wettig , Shunyu Yao , Kexin Pei , Ofir Press , Karthik Narasimhan

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming automated program repair (APR) through agent-based approaches that localize bugs, generate patches, and verify fixes. However, the lack of high-quality, scalable training datasets, especially…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Minh V. T. Pham , Huy N. Phan , Hoang N. Phan , Cuong Le Chi , Tien N. Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Large Language Models~(LLMs) have demonstrated incredible capabilities in understanding, generating, and manipulating languages. Through human-model interactions, LLMs can automatically understand human-issued instructions and output the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haoke Zhang , Yue Wang , Juntao Li , Xiabing Zhou , Min Zhang

Repository-level code editing requires models to understand complex dependencies and execute precise multi-file modifications across a large codebase. While recent gains on SWE-bench rely heavily on complex agent scaffolding, it remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Qinglin Zhu , Tianyu Chen , Shuai Lu , Lei Ji , Runcong Zhao , Murong Ma , Xiangxiang Dai , Yulan He , Lin Gui , Peng cheng , Yeyun Gong

Recent advances in language model (LM) agents have demonstrated significant potential for automating complex real-world tasks. To make progress on these difficult tasks, LM agent architectures have become increasingly complex, often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Mingjian Jiang , Yangjun Ruan , Luis Lastras , Pavan Kapanipathi , Tatsunori Hashimoto

Large language model (LLM) applications such as agents and domain-specific reasoning increasingly rely on context adaptation: modifying inputs with instructions, strategies, or evidence, rather than weight updates. Prior approaches improve…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently attracted wide interest for tackling software engineering tasks. In contrast to code generation, refactoring demands precise, semantics-preserving edits that improve program structure, which also…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yisen Xu , Jinqiu Yang , Tse-Hsun , Chen

Software engineering (SWE) agents are transitioning from code generation to full software development lifecycle automation. A critical phase in this lifecycle is specification design: transforming initial proposals into carefully considered…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Grant Hamblin , Kevin Song , Zhanda Zhu , Anand Jayarajan , Sihang Liu , Nandita Vijaykumar , Gennady Pekhimenko