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
arXiv:2608. 19957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural language code retrieval is a rapidly evolving task in computer science.
By Konstantin Chesnokov, Chingiz Mingazov
arXiv:2607. 05443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientists increasingly rely on open-source tools to support their research workflows, yet discovering relevant software among over 600 million GitHub repositories remains challenging.
By Nishan Pantha, Pranath Reddy Kumbam, Sajil Awale, Pushwitha Krishnappa, Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian, Nidhi Jha, Emily Foshee, Ankur Kumar, Rachel Slank, Ashkbiz Danehkar, Rahul Ramachandran
arXiv:2605. 16046v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Semantic code search has been widely adopted in both academia and industry.
By Yiming Liu, Ruofan Liu, Yun Lin, Zicong Zhang, Weiyu Kong, Pengnian Qi, Xiao Cheng, Weinan Zhang, Qianxiang Wang, Linpeng Huang
Matryoshka Hash Representations (MHR) propose a two‑stage quantization approach for retrieval‑augmented generation. First, a long binary code is learned; then, frozen, additional zero‑initialized residual adaptors are trained to produce searchable prefixes of varying byte budgets. Evaluated on MS MARCO and transferred to seven BEIR datasets, MHR achieves higher NDCG@10 and Recall@100 at 32‑byte budgets than baselines, especially in low‑budget regimes, and can also improve candidate shortlisting and graph‑index pruning.
By Peichun Hua, Yunming Xiao
arXiv:2607. 26070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agentic search systems are often evaluated as if the underlying LLM were the only component that matters, yet their measured performance also depends on the surrounding search environment: the Wikipedia snapshot, preprocessing pipeline, chunking policy, retrieval backend, tool schema, observation format, and answer submission rule.
By Guanming Xiong, Penghui Zhang
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:2606. 30473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study retrieval over catalogs of structured metadata, where each record is a small schema whose fields answer different kinds of query.
By Aivin V. Solatorio, Olivier Dupriez, Rafael Macalaba
Public institutions hold large volumes of sensitive documents and support tickets that cannot leave the premises, ruling out cloud-hosted language models entirely. We report on RAGAL, a retrieval-augmented assistant for the technical-support team of AFIR, the Romanian Agency for Financing Rural Investments, built and operated under three hard constraints: zero data egress (no external API calls, even for synthetic data), a read-only mandate (the assistant drafts, humans execute), and a single 8 GB consumer laptop as the only development and training machine.
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
arXiv:2606.22906v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large language models have shown strong performance on software engineering (SE) tasks, yet understanding large industrial repositories remai...
By Jiawei He, Weisong Sun, Mengyu Shi, Jie Jia, Tong Bian, Xikai Yang, Dong Sun