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The increasing deployment of Large Language Model (LLM) agents for complex software engineering tasks has created a need to understand their problem-solving behaviours beyond simple success metrics. While these agents demonstrate impressive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Oorja Majgaonkar , Zhiwei Fei , Xiang Li , Federica Sarro , He Ye

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated notable success in post-training large language models (LLMs) as agents for tasks such as computer use, tool calling, and coding. However, exploration remains a central challenge in RL for LLM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Andrew Szot , Michael Kirchhof , Omar Attia , Alexander Toshev

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) capture procedural knowledge about the world. Recent work has leveraged LLM's ability to generate abstract plans to simplify challenging control tasks, either by action scoring, or action modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yue Wu , So Yeon Min , Yonatan Bisk , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Amos Azaria , Yuanzhi Li , Tom Mitchell , Shrimai Prabhumoye

System programming languages are typically compiled in a linear pipeline process, which is a completely opaque and isolated to end-users. This limits the possibilities of performing meta-programming in the same language and environment, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Ronie Salgado

We introduce Compositional Imitation Learning and Execution (CompILE): a framework for learning reusable, variable-length segments of hierarchically-structured behavior from demonstration data. CompILE uses a novel unsupervised,…

AI systems increasingly synthesize executable structure at runtime: LLMs generate programs, agents construct workflows,self-improving systems modify their own behavior. In classical homoiconic and staged languages, the transition from code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Alan L. McCann

The Unified Software Development Process (USDP) and UML have been now generally accepted as the standard methodology and modeling language for developing Object-Oriented Systems. Although Agent-based Systems introduces new issues, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mihaela Dinsoreanu , Ioan Salomie , Kalman Pusztai

Recent research builds various patching agents that combine large language models (LLMs) with non-ML tools and achieve promising results on the state-of-the-art (SOTA) software patching benchmark, SWE-bench. Based on how to determine the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Hongwei Li , Yuheng Tang , Shiqi Wang , Wenbo Guo

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have substantially enhanced automated code generation across a wide range of programming languages. Nonetheless, verifying the correctness and executability of LLM-generated code remains a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Xinkui Zhao , Yifan Zhang , Zhengyi Zhou , Yueshen Xu

Large language models have advanced natural language understanding and generation, but their use as autonomous agents introduces architectural challenges for multi-step tasks. Existing frameworks often mix cognition, memory, and control in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Myung Ho Kim

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled software engineering agents to tackle complex code modification tasks. Most existing approaches rely on execution feedback from containerized environments, which require…

AI agent development relies heavily on natural language prompting to define agents' tasks, knowledge, and goals. These prompts are interpreted by Large Language Models (LLMs), which govern agent behavior. Consequently, agentic performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Roi Ben-Gigi , Yuval David , Fabiana Fournier , Lior Limonad , Dany Moshkovich , Hadar Mulian , Segev Shlomov

Understanding procedural language requires anticipating the causal effects of actions, even when they are not explicitly stated. In this work, we introduce Neural Process Networks to understand procedural text through (neural) simulation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Antoine Bosselut , Omer Levy , Ari Holtzman , Corin Ennis , Dieter Fox , Yejin Choi

Automatic post-editing (APE) aims to refine machine translations by correcting residual errors. Although recent large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong translation capabilities, their effectiveness for APE--especially under…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ahrii Kim , Seong-heum Kim

Software engineering agents (SWE) are improving rapidly, with recent gains largely driven by reinforcement learning (RL). However, RL training is constrained by the scarcity of large-scale task collections with reproducible execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ibragim Badertdinov , Maksim Nekrashevich , Anton Shevtsov , Alexander Golubev

Self-adjusting computation offers a language-based approach to writing programs that automatically respond to dynamically changing data. Recent work made significant progress in developing sound semantics and associated implementations of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Matthew A. Hammer , Georg Neis , Yan Chen , Umut A. Acar

When humans conceive how to perform a particular task, they do so hierarchically: splitting higher-level tasks into smaller sub-tasks. However, in the literature on natural language (NL) command of situated agents, most works have treated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Shuyan Zhou , Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig

AI agents using Large Language Models (LLMs) as foundations have shown promise in solving complex real-world tasks. In this paper, we propose an LLM-based agentic workflow for automating Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). For customer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Mandar Kulkarni

While penetration testing plays a vital role in cybersecurity, achieving fully automated, hands-off-the-keyboard execution remains a significant research challenge. In this paper, we introduce the "Planner-Executor-Perceptor (PEP)" design…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Lingzhi Wang , Xinyi Shi , Ziyu Li , Yi Jiang , Shiyu Tan , Yuhao Jiang , Junjie Cheng , Wenyuan Chen , Xiangmin Shen , Zhenyuan LI , Yan Chen

The field of Artificial Intelligence is undergoing a transition from Generative AI -- probabilistic generation of text and images -- to Agentic AI, in which autonomous systems execute actions within external environments on behalf of users.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Sheng Cao , Zhao Chang , Chang Li , Hannan Li , Liyao Fu , Ji Tang