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  1. Editable Visual Design

    Sep 3, 2026Junyan Ye, Wei Liu, Dongzhi Jiang +9Visual GenerationAesthetics

  2. Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning for Sound and Adversarial Test Generation in Code LLMs

    Sep 3, 2026Jiacheng Xu, Wentao Zhang, Zhiyi Lyu +4Test GenerationLarge Language Model Generation

  3. More Criticism Does Not Make a Better Review: EquiReview-R

    Sep 3, 2026Zexing Zhang, Jichao Li, Tianyang Lei +2Artificial Intelligence ReviewersReview

  4. Can LLMs Extract Architectural Design Decisions from Source Code Commits? - A Preliminary Exploratory Study

    Sep 3, 2026Amey Karan, Rudra Dhar, Mohamed Soliman +1CommitsDecisions

  5. The Psychological Costs of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Software Engineering

    Sep 3, 2026Adam Alami, Elda Paja, Abhishek TiwariSoftware EngineeringArtificial Intelligence Systems

  6. Dude: A Dual-Detection Multi-Agent System for Paper-Code Discrepancy Detection

    Sep 3, 2026Weijie Liu, Running Zhao, Wenhao Yuan +4Code QualityDiscrepancy

  7. Efficient SWE Agent Benchmarking via Trajectory-Aware Evaluation

    Sep 1, 2026Kefeng Duan, Dewu Zheng, Yanlin Wang +7Swe-Bench VerifiedAgentic Benchmarks

  8. Adaptive Critical Token-Aware Retrieval for Repository-Level Code Generation

    Sep 1, 2026Kefeng Duan, Dewu Zheng, Yanlin Wang +8Code GenerationLarge Language Model Generation

  9. Designing Proactive Thought Partners for Writing

    Sep 1, 2026Chao Zhang, Abe Davis, Chih-Wei Chen +1Ai-Assisted WritingProactive

  10. Harness-of-Harness: Multi-Day Autonomous Software Development with Continual Improvement

    Sep 1, 2026Haoyang Yan, Min-le Su, Hangfan Zhang +6Agent HarnessCoding Agents

  11. What Does an Agentic Software Engineering Benchmark Measure? Profiling Task Demands and Agent Behaviour Beyond What Category Labels Reveal

    Sep 1, 2026Radin Shayanfar, Keheliya Gallaba, Ahmed E. HassanSoftware EngineeringProfiling

  12. Hints Help But Do They Teach? Evaluating Skills Transfer in Code Generation

    Sep 1, 2026Will BadrCode GenerationCode Evaluation

  13. MaskCode: Mask Transformer for Feedback-Assisted Coding With Linear Block Codes

    Sep 1, 2026Jonggyu Jang, Hongjae Nam, Vishrant Tripathi +2Source-Channel CodingError Correction

  14. WiseSpec: Requirements-Driven Agents for Code Generation

    Sep 1, 2026Zhao TianCode GenerationSoftware Engineering

  15. mimeo: Compiling Public Expert Corpora into Agent Skills and Testing What Transfers

    Aug 31, 2026Timothy KassisExpert DemonstrationsCoding Agents

  16. Don't Let the Model Write the YAML: Deterministic, Minimal-Diff GitOps Remediation from LLM-Proposed Field Changes

    Aug 31, 2026Pruthvi DavineniRemediationCommits

  17. Recursive Criticality of AI Self-Improvement

    Aug 31, 2026Mikhail BurtsevRecursive Self-ImprovementArtificial Intelligence Research

  18. LLM Post-Training as Brownfield Maintenance: An Industrial Perspective on Dataware Engineering

    Aug 31, 2026Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Amir M. Ebrahimi, Boyuan Chen +1LLM Post-Training MethodsTraining Data

  19. Measure Before You Manage: Evaluating Agent Working Memory in Coding Agents

    Aug 31, 2026Le Chen, Zishen Wan, Baixi Sun +6Working MemoryCoding Agents

  20. On the Prospects of Dynamic LLM Conversations in Software Development

    Aug 31, 2026Annemarie Wittig, Alina Mailach, Janet Siegmund +1Multi-Turn Large Language Model ConversationsChatbots

  21. Beyond the Payload: How User Invocation Shapes Coding Agent Vulnerability to Repository Poisoning

    Aug 31, 2026Fukang Zhu, Binbin Zhao, Ruixiao Lin +3Coding AgentsIndirect Prompt Injection

  22. Beneath the Diff: Diagnosing and Mitigating Algorithmic Mode Collapse in Code-Level Autonomous Research Loops

    Aug 31, 2026Bowei He, Weixu Zhang, Yili Jin +1Code QualityAgent Loop

  23. Answer Probing-Guided Search for Diverse Solution Exploration of LLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Yi Fang, Que Shen, Chengpeng Li +6Large Language Model ReasoningReasoning Paths

  24. Interpreting and Steering for Safe and Correct Code Generation

    Aug 30, 2026Hao Yan, Ziyu YaoLarge Language Model SafetyVulnerable Code

  25. VibeJam: A User Study Platform for Web Development with Agents

    Aug 30, 2026Nishant Balepur, Connor Baumler, Valerie Chen +3Vibe CodingCoding Agents

  26. A^2Agent: Action-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Repository-Level Code Localization Agents

    Aug 30, 2026Doyeon Kim, Suyoung Bae, Yumin Lee +1Repository-Level Code UnderstandingCoding Agents

  27. Cost-Effective Repository Exploration for Agentic Issue Localization

    Aug 30, 2026Mohammad Nour Al Awad, Sergey IvanovCoding AgentsLocalization Methods

  28. Rubric-to-Code Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 28, 2026Rui Jin, Jikai Chen, Yihan Chen +6Rubric-Based Reinforcement LearningCode Generation

  29. RealSWE: A Compositional Evaluation of Coding Agents under Realistic User Requests

    Aug 28, 2026Gyuhyeong Kim, Hyojung Gwon, Jeonghyeon Kim +2Swe-Bench VerifiedCoding Agents

  30. A Few Pages of Markdown: Committed AI Configuration and Lower Quality Cost after Coding-Agent Adoption

    Aug 26, 2026Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Shyam Agarwal, Pavel Azaletskiy +5Coding AgentsRepository

  31. SWE-bench Science: Can Coding Agents Resolve Engineering Tasks in Science?

    Aug 20, 2026Zhipeng Xu, Jiahao Lu, Yining Zheng +2Swe-Bench VerifiedSoftware Engineering

  32. AutoResearch: Insight In, Hallucination Out

    Aug 18, 2026Xiang Liu, Qumeng Sun, Bruno +3AutoresearchCode Generation

  33. Vero: Can AI Agents Build Formally Verified Software Repositories?

    Aug 13, 2026Zhe Ye, Hantao Lou, Yuechun Sun +8Formal VerificationRepository

  34. LLM-Assisted Dynamic Threat Analysis for Attacker-Reachable Software Weaknesses in Autonomous Vehicles

    Aug 13, 2026Md Wasiul Haque, Sagar Dasgupta, Mizanur Rahman +1Program AnalysisVulnerability Detection & Repair

  35. Edit2TikZ: A Comprehensive and Challenging Benchmark for Scientific Figure Editing with TikZ

    Aug 13, 2026Zongyun Zhang, Jiacheng Ruan, Xian Gao +5Image EditingMultimodal Knowledge Editing

  36. LigBench: A Unified and Human-Aligned Benchmark for LLM-based Research Idea Generation

    Aug 13, 2026Chenrun Wang, Mingxuan Zhu, Tiancheng Huang +6IdeasHuman-Annotated Benchmark

  37. Memorization Diagnostics for Code LLMs Should be Scale-Aware

    Aug 13, 2026Prateek Kumar Rajput, Abdoul Aziz Bonkoungou, Alberick Euraste Djiré +6MemorizationLarge Language

  38. SteerBench-Work: A Benchmark for Agent Steering at Action Boundaries

    Aug 12, 2026Oguz Serdar, Cuneyt MertayakLarge Language Model AgentsCommits

  39. From Visual Widgets to UI Code: Efficient Tool-Grounded Generation

    Aug 12, 2026Houston H. Zhang, Tao Zhang, Li Gu +5Code GenerationVisual Generation

  40. SoK: From Generation to Consumption of Privacy Documents in Software Systems

    Aug 12, 2026Shidong Pan, Clark LaChance, Zhen Tao +1AI Privacy Risks and ProtectionDocumentation

  41. Specification-first convergence with an AI coding agent: a case study of dismantling a core architectural invariant across 189 files in a 717k-line codebase with no test oracle and no human code review

    Aug 12, 2026Joel AbenhaimCode RefactoringCodebases

  42. Diagnosis Before Recovery: Turning Agent Failures into Selective Self-Correction

    Aug 12, 2026Pan Wang, Yihao Hu, Hang Wang +6Iterative Self-CorrectionTool Failures

  43. Harness-IF: Evaluating Instruction Following Across Instruction Surfaces in Coding Agents

    Aug 12, 2026Zining Huang, Haoran Que, Hong Zeng +8Coding AgentsInstruction

  44. Do Influence Tactics Matter? Investigating Prompt Framing Effects in LLM Code Generation

    Aug 11, 2026Alex Deaconu, Anubhav Gupta, Manaal Basha +2Code GenerationTask Framing

  45. Mechanism Design for Generative Engines: From Exploitation toward Win-Win Outcomes

    Aug 11, 2026Chen Xu, Zitian Guo, Chenyan XiongIncentivesCitations

  46. Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding

    Aug 11, 2026Kushal ChakrabartiCoding AgentsProcedural Knowledge

  47. On Understanding, Identifying, and Mitigating Vulnerabilities in Agentic Large Language Models

    Aug 11, 2026Md Jafrin Hossain, Mohammad Arif Hossain, Nirwan AnsariVulnerability Detection & RepairAgentic Tool Use

  48. Persistent Recursive Worlds Enable Autonomous Software Evolution

    Aug 11, 2026Beichen Huang, Zhenyu Liang, Bowen Zheng +1SoftwarePersistent State

  49. Do Personalized Skills Help Coding Agents? An Empirical Study of Developer Interaction Histories

    Aug 10, 2026Shuyan Huang, Kai Du, Andrew LanCoding AgentsInteraction History

  50. Exploring Semantic Stability Across Reviews in the Linux Kernel

    Aug 10, 2026Lucas Ciziks, Paulo Meirelles, Marco Aurélio GerosaCode QualityReview

  51. When Repository Labels Are Not Image-Level Truth: A Supervision Auditing Framework for Chest Radiograph AI

    Aug 10, 2026Yesika Alexandra Agudelo-Londoño, Jhon Wilmer Pino-Román, Brahian Carrera Rodríguez +9Chest X-RayMedical Imaging Datasets

  52. SWE-Bench ProMax: Benchmarking Agents on Large-Scale Multilingual Code Refactoring

    Aug 10, 2026Yuling Shi, Jinghan Xu, Kelin Fu +12Swe-Bench VerifiedCode Refactoring

  53. Activation Probes Surface Code-Security Signals that the Model's Output Misses

    Aug 10, 2026Ivan WiryadiVulnerable CodeCode Quality

  54. Software Engineering for and with GUI Agent

    Aug 10, 2026Shengcheng Yu, Yuchen Ling, Junyang Xing +3Graphical User Interface AgentsSoftware Engineering

  55. P^{3}: Joint Program-and-Proof Planning for Verified Code Generation

    Aug 10, 2026Zenan Li, Ziran Yang, Peiyang Song +2Code GenerationLarge Language Model Generation

  56. Entropy-based Code Adversarial Translation for Real-world Repository Migration

    Aug 10, 2026Yushun Tang, Yisen Cao, Zhicheng Chen +4RepositoryDevice

  57. Can Coding Agents Solve Repository-Level Issues with Rendered Code? An Exploratory Study of Visual Representations

    Aug 10, 2026Weijie Liang, Yuanfeng Song, Xing Chen +3Repository-Level Code UnderstandingCoding Agents

  58. A Unified Issue Resolution Benchmark for Requirement Clarification, Planning, and Code Generation for Coding Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Xin Zhou, Chun Yong Chong, Kisub Kim +11Coding AgentsRepository

  59. The Impact of Operational-Data Fidelity when Assessing Safety-Critical Autonomous-Vehicle Software

    Aug 9, 2026Kizito Salako, Rabiu Tsoho MuhammadSafety-Critical ScenariosAutonomous Driving

  60. Evidence-Calibrated Runtime Reconstruction for Agent Skills Across Heterogeneous Coding Agents

    Aug 9, 2026Xueping GaoAction TracesCoding Agents