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Modern software systems are expected to be secure and contain all the latest features, even when new versions of software are released multiple times an hour. Each system may include many interacting packages. The problem of installing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Ran Ben Basat , Maayan Goldstein , Itai Segall

Modern deployment of large language models (LLMs) frequently involves both inference serving and continuous retraining to stay aligned with evolving data and user feedback. Common practices separate these workloads onto distinct servers in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yufei Li , Zexin Li , Yinglun Zhu , Cong Liu

Many works have recently proposed the use of Large Language Model (LLM) based agents for performing `repository level' tasks, loosely defined as a set of tasks whose scopes are greater than a single file. This has led to speculation that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Louis Milliken , Sungmin Kang , Shin Yoo

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled researchers to focus on practical repository-level tasks in software engineering domain. In this work, we consider a cornerstone task for automating work with software…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Aleksandra Eliseeva , Alexander Kovrigin , Ilia Kholkin , Egor Bogomolov , Yaroslav Zharov

Current service robots suffer from limited natural language communication abilities, heavy reliance on predefined commands, ongoing human intervention, and, most notably, a lack of proactive collaboration awareness in human-populated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nan Sun , Bo Mao , Yongchang Li , Di Guo , Huaping Liu

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used for automated vulnerability repair (AVR), where repository-level reasoning enables them to inspect context and produce source-code patches. However, recent empirical results show that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Simiao Liu , Fang Liu , Li Zhang , Yang Liu , Yinghao Zhu

Federated fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) is obstructed by a trilemma of challenges: protecting LLMs intellectual property (IP), ensuring client privacy, and mitigating performance loss on heterogeneous data. Existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tao Fan , Guoqiang Ma , Yuanfeng Song , Lixin Fan , Kai Chen , Qiang Yang

Repository-level coding agents must first localize the files and symbols relevant to a task; failures at this stage can cascade across downstream objectives ranging from patch generation to test writing and codebase question answering.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yuntong Hu , Tongli Su , Liang Zhao , Bowen Zhu , Hasibul Haque

Functional simulation is an essential step in digital hardware design. Recently, there has been a growing interest in leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for hardware testbench generation tasks. However, the inherent instability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Ruidi Qiu , Grace Li Zhang , Rolf Drechsler , Ulf Schlichtmann , Bing Li

Software documentation is crucial for repository comprehension. While Large Language Models (LLMs) advance documentation generation from code snippets to entire repositories, existing benchmarks have two key limitations: (1) they lack a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xinchen Wang , Ruida Hu , Cuiyun Gao , Pengfei Gao , Chao Peng

A prerequisite for coding agents to perform tasks on large repositories is code localization - the identification of relevant files, classes, and functions to work on. While repository-level code localization has been performed using…

Code agents are currently having skillful performance on repository-level software engineering benchmarks, but it remains unclear whether success on end-to-end tasks such as issue resolution truly reflects repository context reasoning, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hanyu Li , Yichi Zhang , Speed Zhu , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yinpeng Dong

Large Language Models (LLMs) have greatly advanced code auto-completion systems, with a potential for substantial productivity enhancements for developers. However, current benchmarks mainly focus on single-file tasks, leaving an assessment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Tianyang Liu , Canwen Xu , Julian McAuley

Given that Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to automate software development, comprehensive software assurance spans three distinct goals: regression prevention, reactive reproduction, and proactive discovery. Current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Steven Liu , Jane Luo , Xin Zhang , Aofan Liu , Hao Liu , Jie Wu , Ziyang Huang , Yangyu Huang , Yu Kang , Scarlett Li

Despite the huge success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, these models struggle to understand the context present in the repository (e.g., imports, parent classes, files with similar names, etc.),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Disha Shrivastava , Denis Kocetkov , Harm de Vries , Dzmitry Bahdanau , Torsten Scholak

Unit testing is critical for ensuring software quality and software system stability. The current practice of manually maintaining unit tests suffers from low efficiency and the risk of delayed or overlooked fixes. Therefore, an automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yuanhe Zhang , Zhiquan Yang , Shengyi Pan , Zhongxin Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code completion tasks, where they assist developers by predicting and generating new code in real-time. However, existing LLM-based code completion systems primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhanming Guan , Junlin Liu , Jierui Liu , Chao Peng , Dexin Liu , Ningyuan Sun , Bo Jiang , Wenchao Li , Jie Liu , Hang Zhu

Despite Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 achieving impressive results in function-level code generation, they struggle with repository-scale code understanding (e.g., coming up with the right arguments for calling routines),…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in software development, yet their tendency to generate insecure code remains a major barrier to real-world deployment. Existing secure code alignment methods often suffer from a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tianyi Wu , Mingzhe Du , Yue Liu , Chengran Yang , Terry Yue Zhuo , Jiaheng Zhang , See-Kiong Ng

Environment setup-the process of configuring the system to work with a specific software project-represents a persistent challenge in Software Engineering (SE). Automated environment setup methods could assist developers by providing fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Alexander Kovrigin , Aleksandra Eliseeva , Konstantin Grotov , Egor Bogomolov , Yaroslav Zharov