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Automated Program Repair (APR) struggles with complex logic errors and silent failures. Current LLM-based APR methods are mostly static, relying on source code and basic test outputs, which fail to accurately capture complex runtime…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jiaqing Wu , Tong Wu , Manqing Zhang , Yunwei Dong , Bo Shen

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

Retrieval-augmented generation agents development is hindered by the lack of process-level supervision to effectively guide agentic capabilities like task decomposition, retriever invocation, and stepwise decision-making. While…

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Automated Program Repair (APR) agents leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to autonomously diagnose and fix software bugs through reasoning, planning, and tool use. Despite impressive leaderboard gains on benchmarks such as SWE-bench,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ira Ceka , Hailie Mitchell , Saurabh Pujar , Luca Buratti , Shyam Ramji , Junfeng Yang , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise for automated vulnerability repair (AVR), but they still face several limitations, including the lack of intra-vulnerability experience accumulation and the lack of cross-vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haichuan Hu , Guoqing Xie , Quanjun Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen , Liang Xiao

Frequent toolchain updates and growing ISA diversity have made system-level software package repair increasingly important. Diagnosing and repairing build failures remains challenging because failures involve heterogeneous evidence,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chenyu Zhao , Minghua Ma , Shenglin Zhang , Zeshun Huang , Yongqian Sun , Chetan Bansal , Saravan Rajmohan , Dan Pei

Automated program repair (APR) has recently shifted toward large language models and agent-based systems, yet most systems rely on local snapshot context, overlooking repository history. Prior work shows that repository history helps repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yu Shi , Hao Li , Bram Adams , Ahmed E. Hassan

Fix pattern-based patch generation is a promising direction in Automated Program Repair (APR). Notably, it has been demonstrated to produce more acceptable and correct patches than the patches obtained with mutation operators through…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Kui Liu , Anil Koyuncu , Dongsun Kim , Tegawendé F. Bisyandé

Redundancy-based automated program repair (APR), which generates patches by referencing existing source code, has gained much attention since they are effective in repairing real-world bugs with good interpretability. However, since…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiajun Jiang , Fengjie Li , Zijie Zhao , Zhirui Ye , Mengjiao Liu , Bo Wang , Hongyu Zhang , Junjie Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in downstream software engineering tasks such as Automated Program Repair (APR). In particular, there has been a lot of research on repository-level issue-resolution benchmarks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Anvith Pabba , Alex Mathai , Anindya Chakraborty , Baishakhi Ray

Aim: With the advent of LLMs, sophisticated agentic program repair has become viable at large organizations with large codebases. In this work, we develop an Engineering Agent that fixes the source code based on test failures at scale…

Automated Program Repair (APR) is a task to automatically generate patches for the buggy code. However, most research focuses on generating correct patches while ignoring the consistency between the fixed code and the original buggy code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhenlong Dai , Bingrui Chen , Zhuoluo Zhao , Xiu Tang , Sai Wu , Chang Yao , Zhipeng Gao , Jingyuan Chen

Modern software ecosystems face a rapidly growing number of disclosed vulnerabilities, increasing the need for automated repair techniques that can operate reliably at repository scale. Although Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have…

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

Learned classifiers deployed in agentic pipelines face a fundamental reliability problem: predictions are probabilistic inferences, not verified conclusions, and acting on them without grounding in observable evidence leads to compounding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jugal Gajjar

Automated program repair (APR) has shown promising results, particularly with the use of neural networks. Currently, most APR tools focus on code transformations specified by test suites, rather than reasoning about the program intent and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 He Ye , Aidan Z. H. Yang , Chang Hu , Yanlin Wang , Tao Zhang , Claire Le Goues

Automated structural defect annotation is essential for ensuring infrastructure safety while minimizing the high costs and inefficiencies of manual labeling. A novel agentic annotation framework, Agent-based Defect Pattern Tagger (ADPT), is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Sheng Jiang , Yuanmin Ning , Bingxi Huang , Peiyin Chen , Zhaohui Chen

We present Robust Agent Compensation (RAC), a log-based recovery paradigm (providing a safety net) implemented through an architectural extension that can be applied to most Agent frameworks to support reliable executions (avoiding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Srinath Perera , Kaviru Hapuarachchi , Frank Leymann , Rania Khalaf

Automated Vulnerability Repair (AVR) systems, especially those leveraging large language models (LLMs), have demonstrated promising results in patching vulnerabilities -- that is, if we trust their patch validation methodology. Ground-truth…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zheng Yu , Wenxuan Shi , Xinqian Sun , Zheyun Feng , Meng Xu , Xinyu Xing

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled a new generation of autonomous agents that operate over sustained periods and manage sensitive resources on behalf of users. Trusted for their ability to act without direct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Artem Grigor , Christian Schroeder de Witt , Simon Birnbach , Ivan Martinovic

We present AgenticRAG, a practical agentic harness for retrieval and analysis over enterprise knowledge bases. Standard RAG pipelines place significant burden of grounding on the search stack, constraining the language model to a fixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Susheel Suresh , Hazel Mak , Shangpo Chou , Fred Kroon , Sahil Bhatnagar
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