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:2601. 19697v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Repository-level code completion remains a challenging task for existing code large language models (code LLMs) due to their limited understanding of repository-specific context and domain knowledge.
By Tianyue Jiang, Yanli Wang, Yanlin Wang, Daya Guo, Ensheng Shi, Yuchi Ma, Jiachi Chen, Zibin Zheng
arXiv:2606. 23697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic segmentation of code written in a C-family language remains a challenging problem, due to the language's complex syntax, macro expansion, and irregular structural patterns.
By Boris Nazarov, Darya Frolova, Shaked Leibzirer, Pavel Kisilev
arXiv:2608. 25826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A recent line of synthetic-data work reconstructs the thinking behind existing text rather than rewriting the text itself, but it operates on short web passages, recovers only local thoughts, and leaves the structure of whole documents untouched.
By Qiankai Xu, Qiguang Chen, Zixin Su, Wenhao Huang, Yue Gao, Jiaheng Liu, Ge Zhang
The paper investigates using synthetic natural-language descriptions to contrastively pretrain small transformer encoders for code representation. By pairing generated descriptions with code in a dual-encoder setup during training and discarding them at inference, the authors achieve significant improvements over traditional pretraining baselines on most evaluated tasks. When fine‑tuned, these models match or surpass much larger zero‑shot models and remain competitive with execution‑aware supervision, indicating a scalable alternative for code embeddings.
By Kenneth Paulsen, Florian Tambon, Mike Papadakis, Shin Yoo
The BIT.UA team from the University of Aveiro participated in the 14th BioASQ Task B challenge, presenting a refactored modular pipeline for biomedical question answering. They replaced the PyTerrier PISA index with PostgreSQL-based pg_textsearch for BM25 retrieval and adopted Qdrant for dense embedding indexing, while also exploring HyDE-based query expansion and a Context-1 retrieval strategy. For answer generation, they introduced an LLM-as-a-judge framework and an agent quorum mechanism that allows multiple agents with diverse prompts to debate and converge on a consensus answer, achieving competitive MAP ranks of 5 in Phase A batches.
By Andr\'e Ribeiro, R\'uben Garrido, Alexander Christiansen, Richard A. A. Jonker, S\'ergio Matos