arXiv:2605. 17965v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bug localization remains a key bottleneck for large language model (LLM)-based software maintenance, where accurately identifying faulty code is essential for debugging, root cause analysis, triage, and automated program repair (APR).
By Md Afif Al Mamun, Gias Uddin
arXiv:2508. 12232v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Issue-to-commit link recovery in software repositories is fundamental to software traceability and project management, yet it remains a challenging task.
By Arshia Akhavan, Alireza Hoseinpour, Abbas Heydarnoori, Hamid Bagheri, Mehdi Keshani
arXiv:2607. 24882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern coding agents are usually evaluated by whether they eventually produce a correct patch, but patch generation depends on an earlier context-acquisition stage: finding the repository files needed for the task.
By Bowen Qin, Yi Xie
arXiv:2606. 11976v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software engineering tools increasingly rely on LLM based agents to localize files to change to resolve a software issue.
By Akeela Darryl Fattha, Kia Ying Chua, Lingxiao Jiang, Laura Wynter
arXiv:2609.01601v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The repository-level code generation task requires synthesizing code that satisfies task requirements while remaining consistent with the target repo...
By Kefeng Duan, Dewu Zheng, Yanlin Wang, Terry Yue Zhuo, Mingwei Liu, Jianxing Yu, Jiachi Chen, Ensheng Shi, Xilin Liu, Yuchi Ma, Zibin Zheng
Software engineering tools increasingly rely on LLM based agents to localize files to change to resolve a software issue. Most AI agents explore repositories linearly, that is, visiting one directory or file per step.
arXiv:2605.14563v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Automated code documentation is essential for modern software development, providing the contextual grounding that both human developers and...
By Suyoung Bae, Jaehoon Lee, Changkyu Choi, YunSeok Choi, Jee-Hyong Lee
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:2609.37226v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Answering questions and completing tasks over large document collections often requires connecting evidence spread across multiple documents, such as...
By Soyeong Jeong, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Sung Ju Hwang, Andrew Joohun Nam
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:2608.29675v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Repository exploration is a distinct and costly stage of coding-agent pipelines: before generating a patch, an agent must identify which repository f...
By Mohammad Nour Al Awad, Sergey Ivanov
arXiv:2607. 28587v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: SWE-bench-like benchmarks are widely used for evaluating LLM's issue resolution capability.
By Manyi Wang, Junjielong Xu, Pinjia He