arXiv:2601. 19697v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Repository-level code completion remains a challenging task for existing code large language models (code LLMs) due to their limited understanding of repository-specific context and domain knowledge.
By Tianyue Jiang, Yanli Wang, Yanlin Wang, Daya Guo, Ensheng Shi, Yuchi Ma, Jiachi Chen, Zibin Zheng
arXiv:2509. 23449v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Binary code similarity detection is a core task in reverse engineering.
By Charles E. Gagnon, Steven H. H. Ding, Philippe Charland, Benjamin C. M. Fung
arXiv:2506. 11066v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Code retrieval is essential in modern software development, as it boosts code reuse and accelerates debugging.
By Jiahui Geng, Fengyu Cai, Shaobo Cui, Qing Li, Liangwei Chen, Chenyang Lyu, Haonan Li, Derui Zhu, Walter Pretschner, Heinz Koeppl, Fakhri Karray
The paper introduces LSem2Vec, a two‑stage method that first uses a large language model to extract source code semantics and then applies a sentence embedding model to produce vector representations. This approach removes the need for task‑specific training or fine‑tuning, addressing errors in LLM outputs. Experiments on three datasets across multiple programming languages show that LSem2Vec outperforms five state‑of‑the‑art unsupervised methods.
By Zixiang Xian, Chenhui Cui, Rubing Huang, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen
Code search in large-scale ecosystems is often hindered by the lexical gap between user queries and implementation details, alongside the trade-off between the low latency of traditional Information Retrieval (IR) and the precision of Deep Learning (DL). We present MediaWiki Code2Code Search, a neural retrieval system for semantic code-to-code discovery.
arXiv:2607. 26766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Code search in large-scale ecosystems is often hindered by the lexical gap between user queries and implementation details, alongside the trade-off between the low latency of traditional Information Retrieval (IR) and the precision of Deep Learning (DL).
By Francesco Tosoni
arXiv:2606. 27401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic code search and clone detection are essential for software development, maintenance, and reuse.
By Leonardo Venuta, Francesco Tosoni, Paolo Ferragina
SpIDER is a dense retrieval method that combines LLM reasoning with graph-based exploration of codebases to locate relevant functions, classes, or files for user queries. It introduces a graph-structured benchmark, SpIDER-Bench, covering multiple programming languages and demonstrates significant recall improvements over traditional BM25 and dense approaches. The method’s graph-based candidate expansion provides auditable structural reasons for each retrieved item while keeping the retrieval budget fixed.
By Shravan Chaudhari, Rahul Thomas Jacob, Jiajun Cao, Shihab Rashid, Mononito Goswami, Christian Bock
arXiv:2508. 21290v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: jina-code-embeddings is a novel code embedding model suite designed to retrieve code from natural language queries, perform technical question-answering, and identify semantically similar code snippets across programming languages.
By Daria Kryvosheieva, Saba Sturua, Michael G\"unther, Han Xiao
The paper investigates using synthetic natural-language descriptions to contrastively pretrain small transformer encoders for code representation. By pairing generated descriptions with code in a dual-encoder setup during training and discarding them at inference, the authors achieve significant improvements over traditional pretraining baselines on most evaluated tasks. When fine‑tuned, these models match or surpass much larger zero‑shot models and remain competitive with execution‑aware supervision, indicating a scalable alternative for code embeddings.
By Kenneth Paulsen, Florian Tambon, Mike Papadakis, Shin Yoo
arXiv:2408. 03910v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in stand-alone code tasks like HumanEval and MBPP, but struggle with handling entire code repositories.
By Xiangyan Liu, Bo Lan, Zhiyuan Hu, Yang Liu, Zhicheng Zhang, Fei Wang, Michael Shieh, Wenmeng Zhou
arXiv:2606. 09653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned representations across models and modalities often exhibit striking structural similarities, suggesting shared underlying concept decompositions.
By Gr\'egoire Dhimo\"ila, Victor Boutin, Agustin Martin Picard, Thomas Fel, Thomas Serre