arXiv AI

Comprendia: AI-Augmented Code Comprehension

arXiv:2608. 10290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Comprendia is an Eclipse plugin that integrates structural dependency visualization with LLM-powered code explanation on a shared interactive graph for Java program comprehension.

arXiv AI
Jul 31

TraceCoder: Explainable and Auditable Code Generation with Position-Key Snippet Versioning

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 AI
Aug 26

REFINE: A Multi-Agent LLM Approach for Evidence-Guided Code Refactoring

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