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most citedCan LLM Already Serve as A Database Interface? A BIg Bench for Large-Scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs

87 citations · 206 across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

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43 papers

cs.SE2026

VibeMemBench: Evaluating Memory Systems for Coding Agents on Real Repository Coding Tasks

Liyang Fan, Yingcheng Shi, Yongbin Li +7

Coding agents operate on real repository coding tasks, and persistent memory systems promise to reuse experience across tasks. Yet existing evaluations do not show whether those sy…

cs.AI2026

EvoTrainer: Co-Evolving LLM Policies and Training Harnesses for Autonomous Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Guhong Chen, Yingcheng Shi, Yongbin Li +6

Autonomous LLM training is often framed as recipe search, which leaves the training harness largely static. This limitation sharpens in agentic RL, where shifting bottlenecks and s…

cs.LG2026

ESPO: Early-Stopping Proximal Policy Optimization

Zihang Li, Rui Zhou, Yingcheng Shi +8

When a large language model under reinforcement learning commits a wrong reasoning step early in a trajectory, standard algorithms force it to keep generating until the maximum hor…

cs.LG2026

Agentic Reverse Engineering: From I/O to Code with Discovery Agent

Yihong Dong, Jiaru Qian, Haoran Zhang +7

The automatic synthesis of a program from any form of specification is regarded as a holy grail of computer science. Fueled by LLMs, NL2Code has achieved tremendous success, yet th…

cs.SE2026

To Diff or Not to Diff? Structure-Aware and Adaptive Output Formats for Efficient LLM-based Code Editing

Wei Cheng, Yongchang Cao, Chen Shen +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for code editing, yet the prevalent full-code generation paradigm suffers from severe efficiency bottlenecks, posing challenges f…

cs.SE2026

Think Anywhere in Code Generation

Xue Jiang, Tianyu Zhang, Ge Li +8

Recent advances in reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs) have primarily relied on upfront thinking, where reasoning occurs before final answer. However, this approach suffers from…

cs.AI2026

Beyond Quantity: Trajectory Diversity Scaling for Code Agents

Guhong Chen, Chenghao Sun, Cheng Fu +16

As code large language models (LLMs) evolve into tool-interactive agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), their generalization is increasingly limited by low-quality synthetic…

cs.SE2025

Empowering RepoQA-Agent based on Reinforcement Learning Driven by Monte-carlo Tree Search

Guochang Li, Yuchen Liu, Zhen Qin +7

Repository-level software engineering tasks require large language models (LLMs) to efficiently navigate and extract information from complex codebases through multi-turn tool inte…

cs.SE2025

InspectCoder: Dynamic Analysis-Enabled Self Repair through interactive LLM-Debugger Collaboration

Yunkun Wang, Yue Zhang, Guochang Li +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently generate buggy code with complex logic errors that are challenging to diagnose. While existing LLM-based self-repair approaches conduct inte…

cs.SE2025

CodeRL+: Improving Code Generation via Reinforcement with Execution Semantics Alignment

Xue Jiang, Yihong Dong, Mengyang Liu +10

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at code generation by learning from vast code corpora, a fundamental semantic gap remains between their training on textual patterns and th…

cs.AI2025

Saber: An Efficient Sampling with Adaptive Acceleration and Backtracking Enhanced Remasking for Diffusion Language Model

Yihong Dong, Zhaoyu Ma, Xue Jiang +10

Diffusion language models (DLMs) are emerging as a compelling alternative to the dominant autoregressive paradigm, offering inherent advantages in parallel generation and bidirecti…

cs.AI2025

RL-PLUS: Countering Capability Boundary Collapse of LLMs in Reinforcement Learning with Hybrid-policy Optimization

Yihong Dong, Xue Jiang, Yongding Tao +11

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) has significantly advanced the complex reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, it struggles to break thro…

cs.CL2025

Format-Adapter: Improving Reasoning Capability of LLMs by Adapting Suitable Format

Dingzirui Wang, Xuanliang Zhang, Rongyu Cao +8

Generating and voting multiple answers is an effective method to mitigate reasoning inconsistencies of large language models (LLMs). Prior works have shown that multiple reasoning…

cs.SE2025

Large Language Model Unlearning for Source Code

Xue Jiang, Yihong Dong, Huangzhao Zhang +9

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at code generation, their inherent tendency toward verbatim memorization of training data introduces critical risks like copyright infringe…

cs.SE2025

Thinking Longer, Not Larger: Enhancing Software Engineering Agents via Scaling Test-Time Compute

Yingwei Ma, Yongbin Li, Yihong Dong +5

Recent advancements in software engineering agents have demonstrated promising capabilities in automating program improvements. However, their reliance on closed-source or resource…

cs.SE2025

Do Code LLMs Understand Design Patterns?

Zhenyu Pan, Xuefeng Song, Yunkun Wang +4

Code Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate great versatility in adapting to various downstream tasks, including code generation and completion, as well as bug detection and fixi…

cs.SE2024★ 2 cited

ExploraCoder: Advancing code generation for multiple unseen APIs via planning and chained exploration

Yunkun Wang, Yue Zhang, Zhen Qin +5

Large language models face intrinsic limitations in coding with APIs that are unseen in their training corpora. As libraries continuously evolve, it becomes impractical to exhausti…

cs.SE2024

LLMs as Continuous Learners: Improving the Reproduction of Defective Code in Software Issues

Yalan Lin, Yingwei Ma, Rongyu Cao +4

Reproducing buggy code is the first and crucially important step in issue resolving, as it aids in identifying the underlying problems and validating that generated patches resolve…

cs.SE2024★ 2 cited

Lingma SWE-GPT: An Open Development-Process-Centric Language Model for Automated Software Improvement

Yingwei Ma, Rongyu Cao, Yongchang Cao +7

Recent advancements in LLM-based agents have led to significant progress in automatic software engineering, particularly in software maintenance and evolution. Despite these encour…

cs.CL2024

In-Context Transfer Learning: Demonstration Synthesis by Transferring Similar Tasks

Dingzirui Wang, Xuanliang Zhang, Qiguang Chen +9

In-context learning (ICL) is an effective approach to help large language models (LLMs) adapt to various tasks by providing demonstrations of the target task. Considering the high…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

EvoCodeBench: An Evolving Code Generation Benchmark with Domain-Specific Evaluations

Jia Li, Ge Li, Xuanming Zhang +6

How to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) in code generation remains an open question. Existing benchmarks have two limitations - data leakage and lack of domain-specific evalua…

cs.SE2024★ 2 cited

Codev-Bench: How Do LLMs Understand Developer-Centric Code Completion?

Zhenyu Pan, Rongyu Cao, Yongchang Cao +5

Code completion, a key downstream task in code generation, is one of the most frequent and impactful methods for enhancing developer productivity in software development. As intell…

cs.LG2024

Scaling Offline Model-Based RL via Jointly-Optimized World-Action Model Pretraining

Jie Cheng, Ruixi Qiao, Yingwei Ma +5

A significant aspiration of offline reinforcement learning (RL) is to develop a generalist agent with high capabilities from large and heterogeneous datasets. However, prior approa…

cs.SE2024★ 7 cited

Alibaba LingmaAgent: Improving Automated Issue Resolution via Comprehensive Repository Exploration

Yingwei Ma, Qingping Yang, Rongyu Cao +3

This paper presents Alibaba LingmaAgent, a novel Automated Software Engineering method designed to comprehensively understand and utilize whole software repositories for issue reso…