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cs.SE2026
SpecFirst: Behavioral Specification Elicitation as a First-Class Step in Agent-Based Program Synthesis from Scratch
Yihao Chen, Shi Chang, Feng Lin +4
LLM-based agents excel at software engineering tasks where an existing codebase provides context, but constructing a program from scratch remains fundamentally harder. Recent bench…
cs.SE2026
MindForge: Teaching Small Language Models Whole-Life-Cycle Software Engineering via Source-Free Program Synthesis
Yihao Chen, Shi Chang, Khaled Chawa +4
Coding agents have made substantial progress on software engineering tasks that modify existing codebases, including bug fixing and feature implementation. However, constructing a…
cs.LG2026
Chimera: Latency- and Performance-Aware Multi-agent Serving for Heterogeneous LLMs
Kangqi Ni, Wenyue Hua, Xiaoxiang Shi +3
Multi-agent applications often execute complex tasks as multi-stage workflows, where each stage is an LLM call whose output becomes part of context for subsequent steps. Existing L…