4 papers
Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Dynamics of Agentic Multi-Hunk Repair
Noor Nashid, Daniel Ding, Keheliya Gallaba +2
Automated program repair has traditionally focused on single-hunk defects, overlooking multi-hunk bugs that are prevalent in real-world systems. Repairing these bugs requires coord…
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tool Descriptions Are Smelly! Towards Improving AI Agent Efficiency with Augmented MCP Tool Descriptions
Mohammed Mehedi Hasan, Hao Li, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur +2
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) introduces a standard specification that defines how Foundation Model (FM)-based agents should interact with external systems by invoking tools. Ho…
AIDev: Studying AI Coding Agents on GitHub
Hao Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Ahmed E. Hassan
AI coding agents are rapidly transforming software engineering by performing tasks such as feature development, debugging, and testing. Despite their growing impact, the research c…
Permissive-Washing in the Open AI Supply Chain: A Large-Scale Audit of License Integrity
James Jewitt, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Hao Li +2
Permissive licenses like MIT, Apache-2.0, and BSD-3-Clause dominate open-source AI, signaling that artifacts like models, datasets, and code can be freely used, modified, and redis…