arXiv AI

FasterPy: An LLM-based Code Execution Efficiency Optimization Framework

arXiv:2512. 22827v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Code often suffers from performance bugs.

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 11

MetaLint: Easy-to-Hard Generalization for Code Linting

arXiv:2507. 11687v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models excel at code generation but struggle with code linting, particularly in generalizing to unseen or evolving best practices beyond those observed during training.

By Atharva Naik, Lawanya Baghel, Dhakshin Govindarajan, Darsh Agrawal, Yiqing Xie, Daniel Fried, Carolyn Rose

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 6

From Brute Force to Semantic Insight: Performance-Guided Data Transformation Design with LLMs

arXiv:2601. 03808v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable performance in code synthesis; however, data-aware augmentation remains a limiting factor, handled via heuristic design or brute-force approaches.

By Usha Shrestha, Dmitry Ignatov, Radu Timofte

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arXiv AI

6d ago

Program Semantic Inequivalence Game with Large Language Models

arXiv:2505. 03818v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can achieve strong performance on everyday coding tasks, but they can fail on complex tasks that require non-trivial reasoning about program semantics.

By Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone, Vaishak Belle, Ali Payani

llms agents fine-tuning benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 11

LLM-Based Embeddings for Program Analysis and Optimization

arXiv:2608. 07894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances have highlighted the potential of machine learning, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), for analyzing and optimizing programs.

By Calvin Higgins, Marco Alvarez

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 25

LLM Program Optimization via Retrieval Augmented Search

arXiv:2501. 18916v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work has demonstrated the potential of large language models (LLMs) for program optimization, a key challenge in programming languages.

By Sagnik Anupam, Alexander Shypula, Osbert Bastani

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

SWE-fficiency: Can Language Models Optimize Real-World Repositories on Real Workloads?

arXiv:2511. 06090v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimizing the performance of large-scale software repositories demands expertise in code reasoning and software engineering (SWE) to reduce runtime while preserving program correctness.

By Jeffrey Jian Ma, Milad Hashemi, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Kevin Swersky, Ofir Press, Enhui Li, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Parthasarathy Ranganathan

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arXiv AI

5d ago

CangjieBench: Benchmarking LLMs on a Low-Resource General-Purpose Programming Language

arXiv:2603. 14501v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models excel in high-resource programming languages but struggle with low-resource ones.

By Junhang Cheng, Fang Liu, Jia Li, Chengru Wu, Nanxiang Jiang, Li Zhang

llms rag agents benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 21

FormulaCode: Evaluating Agentic Optimization on Large Codebases

arXiv:2603. 16011v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) coding agents increasingly operate at the repository level, motivating benchmarks that evaluate their ability to optimize entire codebases under realistic constraints.

By Atharva Sehgal, James Hou, Akanksha Sarkar, Ishaan Mantripragada, Swarat Chaudhuri, Jennifer J. Sun, Yisong Yue

llms agents benchmarks

arXiv AI

Aug 11

Effect of Abstractions and Prompting Strategies on LLM-Guided High-Performance Optimizations

arXiv:2608. 08085v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Code performance optimization is a vital aspect of modern software development, as it enables faster response times and reduced resource usage.

By Ji\v{r}\'i Klepl, Maty'a\v{s} Brabec, Martin Kruli\v{s}

llms benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 24

Multi-turn RL with Structural and Performance Aware Rewards for CUDA Kernel Generation

arXiv:2607. 20908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful technique to enhance the reasoning capacity of LLMs for optimized code generation.

By Quazi Ishtiaque Mahmud, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Ali Jannesari

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arXiv AI

Jun 3

Diagnosing Knowledge Gaps in LLM Tool Use: An Agentic Benchmark for Novel API Acquisition

arXiv:2606. 03657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models for code generation often need to use APIs that are absent from their pretraining data.

By Jinnuo Liu, Yue Peng, Jinhan Niu, Hongyi Wen

llms agents fine-tuning benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 29

Recall Before Rerank: Benchmarking Deep Learning Models for Large-Scale Code-to-Code Retrieval

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

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