arXiv:2601. 08856v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unit tests are critical in the hardware design lifecycle to ensure that component design modules are functionally correct and conform to the specification before they are integrated at the system level.
By Deeksha Nandal, Riccardo Revalor, Soham Dan, Debjit Pal
arXiv:2606. 29088v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: There are various benchmarks to evaluate bugfixing capabilities of Large Language Models.
By Bal\'azs Szalontai, \'Abel Szauter, Bal\'azs M\'arton, P\'eter Verebics, Bal\'azs Pint\'er, Tibor Gregorics
arXiv:2607. 22759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show promise in code generation, but their capabilities to produce correct, synthesizable hardware description language (HDL) code still remain to be properly benchmarked.
By Angshuman Chakravertty, Rahul Koshti, Buddhi Prakash Sharma, Vinay Chamola
arXiv:2607. 00700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLVM is a widely used compiler infrastructure whose scale and complexity make issue resolution labor-intensive and challenging.
By Zhao Tian, Yingquan Zhao, Chenyao Suo, Meng Wang, Junjie Chen
arXiv:2608. 02712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kernel generation for hardware accelerators such as GPUs and NPUs has become a proving ground for large language models (LLMs), and state-of-the-art systems raise correctness through pipelines that couple LLMs with agentic reinforcement learning and evolutionary search.
By Yansong Sun, Shenxiu Wu, Siyuan Chen, Runlin Hou, Junhao Qiu, Junming Cao, Shudi Shao, Zhichao Lu, Qingfu Zhang
arXiv:2608. 14863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based coding agents have advanced rapidly on single-process SWE tasks, with frontier models now clustering in the high-70s on SWE-bench Verified.
By Yibo Yan, Huijuan Wang, Junzhou He, Yizhuo Liang, Shaoyu Wang, Huanchen Sun, Seo Jin Park
arXiv:2605. 28732v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Memory is essential for enabling large language models to support long-horizon reasoning, yet existing memory systems remain unreliable and difficult to debug.
By Xinle Deng, Ruobin Zhong, Hujin Peng, Xiaoben Lu, Yanzhe Wu, Guang Li, Buqiang Xu, Yunzhi Yao, Jizhan Fang, Haoliang Cao, Junjie Guo, Yuan Yuan, Ziqing Ma, Yuanqiang Yu, Rui Hu, Baohua Dong, Hangcheng Zhu, Ningyu Zhang
arXiv:2606. 15500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have facilitated impressive progress in software engineering, code generation, tooling, and systems.
By Jing Jin, Robert Chu, Ning Yan, Masood S. Mortazavi
arXiv:2608. 14065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Software bugs remain a critical challenge in development, necessitating effective Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques.
By Junchi Liu, Ali Bigdeli, Roya Daneshi, Atu Ambala, Sudipto Ghosh, Fabio Santos
arXiv:2507. 22580v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated Program Repair (APR) seeks to automatically correct software bugs without requiring human intervention.
By Marcos Fuster-Pena, David de-Fitero-Dominguez, Antonio Garcia-Cabot, Eva Garcia-Lopez
arXiv:2606. 15693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have significantly advanced code generation, enabling the synthesis of functional programs.
By Charly Reux (UR, INSA Rennes, DiverSe), Mathieu Acher (CNRS, IUF, IRISA, UR, DiverSe), Djamel Eddine Khelladi (DiverSe, UR, CNRS, IRISA), Cl\'ement Quinton (SPIRALS, CNRS), Olivier Barais (UR, IRISA, DiverSe)
arXiv:2607. 00990v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based software engineering agents are increasingly developed to resolve software issues by generating patches from issue reports and code repositories.
By Yaoqi Guo, Yang Liu, Jie M. Zhang, Yun Ma, Yiling Lou, Zhenpeng Chen