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cs.SE2026

Speculative Forking: Turning Idle Wait into Parallel Exploration for Repository Environment Setup

Yuling Shi, Mingchu Zhong, Zhensu Sun +8

Before developers can use a software project, they must first get it to run. This often requires installing the right language runtime, system packages, build tools, and test comma…

cs.SE2026

SWE-at-Scale: Scalable Issue Synthesis from Historical Bug Fixes

Silin Chen, Zihan Zhang, Xiaodong Gu +7

As coding agents become increasingly capable, robust evaluation requires a broader and more diverse supply of verifiable software engineering (SWE) tasks. However, real-world tasks…

cs.SE2026

DeepRepoQA: Code Repository Question Answering with Deep Agent Exploration

Weihan Peng, Yuling Shi, Yingwei Ma +3

Answering developer questions about a software repository is a critical yet under-explored problem in software engineering. While existing repository understanding methods have adv…

cs.SE2026

Schrödinger's Code Repository: Have LLMs Learned SWE-bench or Memorized It?

Silin Chen, Yufei Yang, Xiaodong Gu +3

Repository-level coding benchmarks have become the standard for evaluating coding agents, yet they inherently suffer from data leakage because they are built upon popular open-sour…

cs.SE2026

Repo0: Design-Driven Zero-to-All Code Generation

Silin Chen, Haoyi Teng, Xiaodong Gu +5

Large language model agents have made substantial progress in code generation, yet most existing systems assume a predefined repository architecture. This assumption does not hold…

cs.SE2026

SkillForge: Self-Distilling Agents for Project-Specific Issue Resolution

Silin Chen, Han Li, Xiaodong Gu +2

Large language model (LLM) based agents have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in automated software issue resolution, yet they often struggle to resolve issues in a specific rep…

cs.SE2026

Are Performance-Optimization Benchmarks Reliably Measuring Coding Agents?

Zhi Chen, Zhensu Sun, Yuling Shi +2

Repository-level performance-optimization benchmarks such as GSO, SWE-Perf and SWE-fficiency evaluate coding agents by applying patches to real repositories and comparing runtime a…

cs.SE2026

Know Before Fix: QA-Driven Repository Knowledge Acquisition for Software Issue Resolution

Haotian Lin, Silin Chen, Xiaodong Gu +8

LLM-based coding agents have significantly advanced automated software issue resolution, yet they remain highly prone to factual errors caused by insufficient repository understand…

cs.SE2026

FastContext: Training Efficient Repository Explorer for Coding Agents

Shaoqiu Zhang, Maoquan Wang, Yuling Shi +12

Large Language Model (LLM) coding agents have achieved strong results on software engineering tasks, yet repository exploration remains a major bottleneck: locating relevant code c…

cs.SE2026

Dockerless: Environment-Free Program Verifier for Coding Agents

Wenhao Zeng, Yuling Shi, Xiaodong Gu +10

Program verifiers play a central role in training coding agents, including selecting trajectories for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and providing rewards for reinforcement learning…

cs.SE2026

SWE-Explore: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Explore Repositories

Shaoqiu Zhang, Yuhang Wang, Jialiang Liang +8

Repository-level coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench have driven a rapid surge in the capabilities of coding agents. Yet they usually treat coding tasks as a holistic, binary predi…

cs.SE2026

LLM Agents Can See Code Repositories

Dongjian Ma, Silin Chen, Yufei Yang +3

Coding agents powered by large language models have demonstrated strong performance on software engineering tasks. Yet most agents consume repositories almost entirely as text, whi…

cs.SE2026

ClassEval-Pro: A Cross-Domain Benchmark for Class-Level Code Generation

Yeheng Chen, Chaoxiang Xie, Yuling Shi +4

LLMs have achieved strong results on both function-level code synthesis and repository-level code modification, yet a capability that falls between these two extremes -- compositio…

cs.SE2026★ 1 cited

EffiSkill: Agent Skill Based Automated Code Efficiency Optimization

Zimu Wang, Yuling Shi, Mengfan Li +4

Code efficiency is a fundamental aspect of software quality, yet how to harness large language models (LLMs) to optimize programs remains challenging. Prior approaches have sought…

cs.SE2026

Test vs Mutant: Adversarial LLM Agents for Robust Unit Test Generation

Pengyu Chang, Yixiong Fang, Silin Chen +3

Software testing is a critical, yet resource-intensive phase of the software development lifecycle. Over the years, various automated tools have been developed to aid in this proce…

cs.SE2026

Rethinking the Value of Agent-Generated Tests for LLM-Based Software Engineering Agents

Zhi Chen, Zhensu Sun, Yuling Shi +4

Large Language Model (LLM) code agents increasingly resolve repository-level issues by iteratively editing code, invoking tools, and validating candidate patches. In these workflow…

cs.SE2026

Rethinking Code Complexity Through the Lens of Large Language Models

Chen Xie, Xiaodong Gu, Yuling Shi +1

Code complexity metrics such as cyclomatic complexity have long been used to assess software quality and maintainability. With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs)…

cs.SE2026★ 1 cited

SWE-Pruner: Self-Adaptive Context Pruning for Coding Agents

Yuhang Wang, Yuling Shi, Mo Yang +7

LLM agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in software development, but their performance is hampered by long interaction contexts, which incur high API costs and latency…

cs.SE2026★ 1 cited

In Line with Context: Repository-Level Code Generation via Context Inlining

Chao Hu, Wenhao Zeng, Yuling Shi +2

Repository-level code generation has attracted growing attention in recent years. Unlike function-level code generation, it requires the model to understand the entire repository,…