arXiv:2507. 16395v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Atomic commits, which address a single development concern, are a best practice in software development.
By Bo Hou, Xin Tan, Kai Zheng, Fang Liu, Yinghao Zhu, Li Zhang
arXiv:2607. 08981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-generated code often compiles, passes tests, and appears correct, yet breaks once deployed.
By Viraaji Mothukuri, Reza M. Parizi
arXiv:2607. 26307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contemporary LLM-based coding agents produce code as black-box outputs: the rationale behind each line is hidden, the evolution of the code through benchmark-driven repair is ephemeral, and post-hoc auditing is impossible.
By Rwaida Alssadi, Muntaser Syed, Balaji Kasula, Lamine Deen, Majed Alotaibi, Mohammed Alghamdi, Tyler Ton, Ali Alqarni, Marius Silaghi
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:2607. 08691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repository-level code generation requires implementing target functions while accounting for complex cross-file dependencies and project-specific conventions.
By QiHong Chen, Aaron Imani, Iftekhar Ahmed
arXiv:2608. 05204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-agent ecosystems are rapidly growing around reusable skills: mixed-modality packages of metadata, natural-language instructions, code, tools, references, and operational workflows.
By Jialuo Chen, Minghe Wang, Lingqi Jiang, Jianan Ma, Xinhao Deng, Xiaohu Du, Ruixiao Lin, Yunhao Feng, Linkang Du, Jingyi Wang
REFINE is a tool-agnostic, evidence-aware multi-agent approach that generates Java file-level refactoring candidates by combining static analysis, smell-informed planning, LLM-based transformation, and automated re-analysis. In experiments on 450 Java files from 15 open-source systems, REFINE reduced detected code smells by 68–73% across three LLM configurations, achieving higher median reductions with smaller edits compared to a direct-prompt baseline. However, the tool’s outputs still pose risks such as assert/fail-call changes and public-method removal, requiring compilation, testing, dependency analysis, and human review before deployment.
By Muhammad Waseem, Aakash Ahmad, Pekka Abrahamsson
arXiv:2608. 02650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external tools to complete complex real-world tasks.
By Zian Zhai, Xingyu Tan, Gaowang Zou, Xiaoyang Wang, Wenjie Zhang
arXiv:2607. 18642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mined code corpora are abundant but uncontrolled: a snippet's semantics, surface "messiness," and difficulty are whatever the wild contained; there is no known-optimal reference to grade against; and any public sample may already sit in a model's training set.
By Yuxiang Ji
arXiv:2608.29310v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Organizations often develop and maintain portfolios of related applications: independently deployable codebases that share substantial domain logic,...
By Daegyu Sung, Yukyeong Lee, Geon Park, Yumin Choi, Sung Ju Hwang
arXiv:2607. 01235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding how Large Language Models (LLMs) make token-level decisions during code generation remains a major challenge for both researchers and practitioners.
By Amirreza Esmaeili, Fatemeh Fard
arXiv:2604. 26578v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reusing verification artefacts requires identifying structural and semantic similarities across programs and their specifications.
By Arshad Beg, Diarmuid O'Donoghue, Rosemary Monahan