2 papers
cs.SE2026
What Do AI Agents Actually Change? An Empirical Taxonomy of Mutation Patterns in Performance-Improving Pull Requests
Illia Dovhoshliubnyi, Nima Soroush, Ashkan Sami +1
AI coding agents are black boxes: we cannot inspect how they generate code, but we can inspect what they change. This distinction matters for search-based software engineering (SBS…
cs.SE2025
LLM-Guided Genetic Improvement: Envisioning Semantic Aware Automated Software Evolution
Karine Even-Mendoza, Alexander Brownlee, Alina Geiger +4
Genetic Improvement (GI) of software automatically creates alternative software versions that are improved according to certain properties of interests (e.g., running-time). Search…