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20232026
most citedCopiloting the Copilots: Fusing Large Language Models with Completion Engines for Automated Program Repair

104 citations · 242 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.SE2026

From Verification Failures to Reusable Guidance for Coding Agents

Yuqing Zhai, Xiaohong Chen, Lingming Zhang +2

Coding agents need to establish that a program satisfies a specification and that the specification captures the requested behavior. We study how expert diagnosis of verification f…

cs.AI2026

SwarmResearch: Orchestrating Coding Agents for Open-Ended Discovery

Yuvraj Virk, Zack Edds, Chunqiu Steven Xia +1

Long-running coding agents such as autoresearch can persistently discover optimizations for open-ended problems. However, they tend to converge onto a single high-level approach, t…

cs.CL2026

Code as Agent Harness

Xuying Ning, Katherine Tieu, Dongqi Fu +39

Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in understanding and generating code, from competitive programming to repository-level software engineerin…

cs.CR2026

SEC-bench Pro: Can Language Models Solve Long-Horizon Software Security Tasks?

Hwiwon Lee, Jiawei Liu, Dongjun Kim +4

Finding a real vulnerability in complicated systems is a challenging, long-horizon task that demands reasoning across an entire codebase to produce a working proof-of-concept (PoC)…

cs.SE2026

AnyPoC: Universal Proof-of-Concept Test Generation for Scalable LLM-Based Bug Detection

Zijie Zhao, Chenyuan Yang, Weidong Wang +3

While recent LLM-based agents can identify many candidate bugs in source code, their reports remain static hypotheses that require manual validation, limiting the practicality of a…

cs.SE2025★ 5 cited

KNighter: Transforming Static Analysis with LLM-Synthesized Checkers

Chenyuan Yang, Zijie Zhao, Zichen Xie +2

Static analysis is a powerful technique for bug detection in critical systems like operating system kernels. However, designing and implementing static analyzers is challenging, ti…

cs.SE2024★ 17 cited

Agentless: Demystifying LLM-based Software Engineering Agents

Chunqiu Steven Xia, Yinlin Deng, Soren Dunn +1

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the automation of software development tasks, including code synthesis, program repair, and test gen…

cs.SE2024★ 5 cited

TESTEVAL: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Test Case Generation

Wenhan Wang, Chenyuan Yang, Zhijie Wang +6

Testing plays a crucial role in the software development cycle, enabling the detection of bugs, vulnerabilities, and other undesirable behaviors. To perform software testing, teste…

cs.SE2024★ 6 cited

UniDebugger: Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Unified Software Debugging

Cheryl Lee, Chunqiu Steven Xia, Longji Yang +4

Software debugging is a time-consuming endeavor involving a series of steps, such as fault localization and patch generation, each requiring thorough analysis and a deep understand…

cs.SE2024★ 4 cited

Top Leaderboard Ranking = Top Coding Proficiency, Always? EvoEval: Evolving Coding Benchmarks via LLM

Chunqiu Steven Xia, Yinlin Deng, Lingming Zhang

LLMs have become the go-to choice for code generation tasks, with an exponential increase in the training, development, and usage of LLMs specifically for code generation. To evalu…

cs.CR2024★ 37 cited

KernelGPT: Enhanced Kernel Fuzzing via Large Language Models

Chenyuan Yang, Zijie Zhao, Lingming Zhang

Bugs in operating system kernels can affect billions of devices and users all over the world. As a result, a large body of research has been focused on kernel fuzzing, i.e., automa…

cs.SE2023★ 64 cited

WhiteFox: White-Box Compiler Fuzzing Empowered by Large Language Models

Chenyuan Yang, Yinlin Deng, Runyu Lu +4

Compiler correctness is crucial, as miscompilation can falsify program behaviors, leading to serious consequences. Fuzzing has been studied to uncover compiler defects. However, co…

cs.SE2023★ 104 cited

Copiloting the Copilots: Fusing Large Language Models with Completion Engines for Automated Program Repair

Yuxiang Wei, Chunqiu Steven Xia, Lingming Zhang

During Automated Program Repair (APR), it can be challenging to synthesize correct patches for real-world systems in general-purpose programming languages. Recent Large Language Mo…