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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

Pairing Matters: Performance, Failures, and Efficiency in Lightweight Coding Agents

Lu Zhao, Christopher M. Poskitt, David Lo

Self-hosting coding agents is often necessary for software-engineering teams that must keep proprietary code and development traces within controlled infrastructure. Lightweight, o…

cs.CL2026

EarlyEval: Cheaper Agent Evaluation via Early Outcome Prediction

Yuling Shi, Zhensu Sun, Junsen Dong +3

Evaluating LLM agents is essential for guiding their development, yet it has grown prohibitively expensive: a single pass of a frontier model over an agentic benchmark can cost hun…

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

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.CL2026★ 1 cited

Seeing is Coding: On the Effectiveness of Vision Language Models in Code Understanding

Yuling Shi, Chaoxiang Xie, Zhensu Sun +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in source code understanding, yet as software systems grow in scale, computational efficiency has become a critical bo…