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Repository-aware code translation is critical for modernizing legacy systems, enhancing maintainability, and enabling interoperability across diverse programming languages. While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have improved…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ziqi Guan , Xin Yin , Zhiyuan Peng , Chao Ni

A coding agent can bootstrap itself. Starting from a 926-word specification and a first implementation produced by an existing agent (Claude Code), a newly generated agent re-implements the same specification correctly from scratch. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Martin Monperrus

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

Language models for program synthesis are usually trained and evaluated on programming competition datasets (MBPP, APPS). However, these datasets are limited in size and quality, while these language models are extremely data hungry.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Noah van der Vleuten

Code agents are advancing rapidly, but debugging them is becoming increasingly difficult. As frameworks orchestrate parallel tool calls and multi-stage workflows over complex tasks, making the agent's state transitions and error propagation…

Assisting non-expert users to develop complex interactive websites has become a popular task for LLM-powered code agents. However, existing code agents tend to only generate frontend web pages, masking the lack of real full-stack data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zimu Lu , Houxing Ren , Yunqiao Yang , Ke Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Mingjie Zhan , Hongsheng Li

Context: It is common for programming languages that their reference implementation is implemented in the language itself. This requires a "bootstrap": a copy of a previous version of the implementation is provided along with the sources,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Nathanaëlle Courant , Julien Lepiller , Gabriel Scherer

Generative models have demonstrated considerable potential in software engineering, particularly in tasks such as code generation and debugging. However, their utilization in the domain of code documentation generation remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Qinyu Luo , Yining Ye , Shihao Liang , Zhong Zhang , Yujia Qin , Yaxi Lu , Yesai Wu , Xin Cong , Yankai Lin , Yingli Zhang , Xiaoyin Che , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

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

A core step in statistical data-to-text generation concerns learning correspondences between structured data representations (e.g., facts in a database) and associated texts. In this paper we aim to bootstrap generators from large scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Laura Perez-Beltrachini , Mirella Lapata

Reproducing computational research is often assumed to be as simple as rerunning the original code with provided data. In practice, missing packages, fragile file paths, version conflicts, or incomplete logic frequently cause analyses to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Syed Mehtab Hussain Shah , Frank Hopfgartner , Arnim Bleier

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agent systems are increasingly used for scientific tasks, yet their practical capability remains constrained by the narrow scope of manually curated tools they can invoke. Much scientific computational…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shimin Di , Xujie Yuan , Hanghui Guo , Chaoqian Ouyang , Yongxu Liu , Ling Yue , Zhangze Chen , Libin Zheng , Jia Zhu , Shaowu Pan , Jian Yin , Yong Rui , Min-Ling Zhang

Many conversational agents in the market today follow a standard bot development framework which requires training intent classifiers to recognize user input. The need to create a proper set of training examples is often the bottleneck in…

Designing multi-agent workflows is especially difficult in open-ended scientific settings where tasks lack curated training sets, reliable scalar evaluation metrics, and standardized interfaces between existing tools and agents. We propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shuaike Shen , Wenduo Cheng , Shike Wang , Mingqian Ma , Jian Ma

Large language models contain noisy general knowledge of the world, yet are hard to train or fine-tune. On the other hand cognitive architectures have excellent interpretability and are flexible to update but require a lot of manual work to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Feiyu Zhu , Reid Simmons

Most coding-agent benchmarks ask whether generated code behaves correctly. That remains essential, but repository-level engineering is increasingly agent-managed: one agent writes a repository, and later agents inspect, audit, or extend it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jhen-Ke Lin

Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) empowers large language models to autonomously plan and retrieve information for complex problem-solving. However, the development of robust agents is hindered by the scarcity of high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zhengwei Tao , Bo Li , Jialong Wu , Guochen Yan , Huanyao Zhang , Jiahao Xu , Haitao Mi , Wentao Zhang

AI agent frameworks operate in isolation, forcing agents to rediscover solutions and repeat mistakes across different systems. Despite valuable problem-solving experiences accumulated by frameworks like smolagents, OpenHands, and OWL, this…

Rehearsal-based video incremental learning often employs knowledge distillation to mitigate catastrophic forgetting of previously learned data. However, this method faces two major challenges for video task: substantial computing resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Shengqin Jiang , Yaoyu Fang , Haokui Zhang , Qingshan Liu , Yuankai Qi , Yang Yang , Peng Wang

Code Search is a key task that many programmers often have to perform while developing solutions to problems. Current methodologies suffer from an inability to perform accurately on prompts that contain some ambiguity or ones that require…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Sarthak Jain , Aditya Dora , Ka Seng Sam , Prabhat Singh
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