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).
arXiv:2609. 31176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repository-level issue localization aims to identify and rank the files and functions relevant to resolving a reported issue.
arXiv:2609.38402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce C2C (From Codebase to Culprit), a framework for precise bug localization that progressively reduces the debugging search space across mu...
arXiv:2605. 03117v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated program repair at repository scale requires an agent to locate a fault among thousands of files and synthesize a correct patch.
arXiv:2606.24820v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM agents solve repository-level coding tasks through multi-turn tool use, but utilize half their budget on locating faults before editing. Dedica...
arXiv:2607. 18859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models have greatly advanced automated issue resolution, existing agent-based methods exhibit a fundamental limitation in their insufficient exploration of repair strategies.
arXiv:2608. 14065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Software bugs remain a critical challenge in development, necessitating effective Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques.
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.
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.
arXiv:2608. 02967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software fault localization identifies the code locations responsible for reported issues and is a fundamental step toward automated debugging and program repair.
arXiv:2606. 09956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of LLM-powered code generation has dramatically accelerated software development, yet effective verification methods remain severely underdeveloped.
arXiv:2607. 12605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have improved automated program repair (APR), but two limitations remain.
arXiv:2607. 25873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based Automated Program Repair systems are advancing rapidly, yet their performance remains inconsistent.