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  1. Deterministic vs. LLM-Controlled Orchestration for COBOL-to-Python Modernization

    May 11, 2026Naing Oo Lwin, Rajesh KumarDeterministicCodebases

  2. An Executable Benchmarking Suite for Tool-Using Agents

    May 10, 2026Zhiqing Zhong, Zhijing Ye, Jiamin Wang +1Swe-Bench VerifiedRuntime Enforcement

  3. From Code-Centric to Intent-Centric Software Engineering: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Generative AI, Agentic Systems, and Engineering Accountability

    May 10, 2026Elyson De La CruzSoftware EngineeringGenerative Artificial Intelligence

  4. RubricRefine: Improving Tool-Use Agent Reliability with Training-Free Pre-Execution Refinement

    May 10, 2026Will LeVine, Brendan Evers, Sam Saltwick +1Code QualityKernel Contracts

  5. MOTOR-Bench: A Real-world Dataset and Multi-agent Framework for Zero-shot Human Mental State Understanding

    May 10, 2026Xiaoyu Yuan, Niklas Heikkala, Tiina Törmänen +3Theory-Of-Mind ReasoningMulti-Agent Reasoning

  6. MonitoringBench: Semi-Automated Red-Teaming for Agent Monitoring

    May 10, 2026Monika Jotautaitė, Maria Angelica Martinez, Ollie Matthews +1Red-TeamingCoding Agents

  7. AI-Automation Tooling in Computer Engineering Education: Mixed-Methods TAM/UTAUT Evidence for a General Acceptance Attitude

    May 10, 2026Aung PyaeComputer ScienceArtificial Intelligence Literacy

  8. SimWorld Studio: Automatic Environment Generation with Evolving Coding Agent for Embodied Agent Learning

    May 10, 2026Haoqiang Kang, Xiaokang Ye, Yuhan Liu +5Embodied AgentsMinute-Long Consistent World Generation

  9. Your Simulation Runs but Solves the Wrong Physics: PDE-Grounded Intent Verification for LLM-Generated Multiphysics Simulation Code

    May 10, 2026Zhenghan Song, Yulong Liu, Cheng Wan +4Code GenerationCorrectness

  10. Semantic Voting: Execution-Grounded Consensus for LLM Code Generation

    May 9, 2026Shan Jiang, Zijian Yi, Chenguang ZhuCode GenerationLarge Language Model Generation

  11. VeriContest: A Competitive-Programming Benchmark for Verifiable Code Generation

    May 8, 2026Zichen Xie, Mrigank Pawagi, Yuxin Liu +5Code GenerationRaw Judge Outputs

  12. PYTHALAB-MERA: Validation-Grounded Memory, Retrieval, and Acceptance Control for Frozen-LLM Coding Agents

    May 8, 2026Mehmet IscanCode GenerationEpisodic Experiences

  13. SecureForge: Finding and Preventing Vulnerabilities in LLM-Generated Code via Prompt Optimization

    May 8, 2026Houjun Liu, Lisa Einstein, John Yang +5Vulnerability Detection & RepairCoding Agents

  14. What Software Engineering Looks Like to AI Agents? -- An Empirical Study of AI-Only Technical Discourse on MoltBook

    May 8, 2026Junyu Huo, Ziqi Mao, Zihao Wan +1Software EngineeringArtificial Intelligence Agents

  15. SWE Atlas: Benchmarking Coding Agents Beyond Issue Resolution

    May 8, 2026Mohit Raghavendra, Soham Dan, Miguel Romero Calvo +12Swe-Bench VerifiedCoding Agents

  16. Position: Mechanistic Interpretability Must Disclose Identification Assumptions for Causal Claims

    May 8, 2026Zezheng Lin, Fengming LiuCausal ReasoningMechanistic Interpretability

  17. Search-based Robustness Testing of Laptop Refurbishing Robotic Software

    May 8, 2026Erblin Isaku, Hassan Sartaj, Shaukat Ali +2Object DetectionPerturbations

  18. GameGen-Verifier: Parallel Keypoint-Based Verification for LLM-Generated Games via Runtime State Injection

    May 8, 2026Chaobo Jia, Ruipeng Wan, Ting Sun +5VerifierTest Generation

  19. Prompt Engineering Strategies for LLM-based Qualitative Coding of Psychological Safety in Software Engineering Communities: A Controlled Empirical Study

    May 8, 2026Moaath Alshaikh, Tasneem Alshaher, Ricardo Vieira +7Qualitative ResearchSoftware Engineering

  20. Exploring CoCo Challenges in ML Engineering Teams: Insights From the Semiconductor Industry

    May 8, 2026A. Azamnouri, M. Haug, L. Woltmann +3Semiconductor ManufacturingSoftware

  21. Signal Reshaping for GRPO in Weak-Feedback Agentic Code Repair

    May 8, 2026Jia Li, Yuxin Su, Ting Peng +3Potential-Based Reward ShapingAgentic Reinforcement-Learning Framework

  22. PaT: Planning-after-Trial for Efficient Test-Time Code Generation

    May 8, 2026Youngsik Yoon, Sungjae Lee, Seockbean Song +3Test TimeCode Generation

  23. Coupling Models for One-Step Discrete Generation

    May 8, 2026Fred Zhangzhi Peng, Avishek Joey Bose, Anru R. Zhang +1Generative ModelsData Generation

  24. Delulu: A Verified Multi-Lingual Benchmark for Code Hallucination Detection in Fill-in-the-Middle Tasks

    May 7, 2026Mahdi Erfanian, Nelson Daniel Troncoso, Aashna Garg +4Code GenerationHallucination Rate

  25. SmellBench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Architectural Code Smell Repair

    May 7, 2026Ion George Dinu, Marian Cristian Mihăescu, Traian RebedeaCode QualityCodebases

  26. MIST: Multimodal Interactive Speech-based Tool-calling Conversational Assistants for Smart Homes

    May 7, 2026Maximillian Chen, Xuanming Zhang, Michael Peng +3Voice AgentsSmart Homes

  27. Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Backend Code Generation

    May 7, 2026Francesco Dente, Dario Satriani, Paolo PapottiCode GenerationLarge Language Model Agents

  28. Correct Code, Vulnerable Dependencies: A Large Scale Measurement Study of LLM-Specified Library Versions

    May 7, 2026Chengjie Wang, Jingzheng Wu, Xiang Ling +2Code QualityLarge Language Model Safety

  29. A Self-Healing Framework for Reliable LLM-Based Autonomous Agents

    May 7, 2026Cheonsu Jeong, Younggun ShinLlm-Based AgentSoftware

  30. BUILD-AND-FIND: An Effort-Aware Protocol for Evaluating Agent-Managed Codebases

    May 7, 2026Jhen-Ke LinRepository-Level Code UnderstandingCodebases

  31. TACT: Mitigating Overthinking and Overacting in Coding Agents via Activation Steering

    May 7, 2026Yuan Sui, Yulin Chen, Yibo Li +6Coding AgentsActivation Steering

  32. When Does a Language Model Commit? A Finite-Answer Theory of Pre-Verbalization Commitment

    May 7, 2026Long Zhang, Wei-neng Chen, Feng-feng Wei +1ContinuationFinite

  33. An Empirical Study of Proactive Coding Assistants in Real-World Software Development

    May 7, 2026Lehui Li, Ruixuan Jia, Guo-Ye Yang +1Code GenerationSoftware Engineering

  34. Retrieval-Conditioned Topology Selection with Provable Budget Conservation for Multi-Agent Code Generation

    May 7, 2026Abhijit Talluri, Pujith Anne, Bhagavan Choudary Pendiyala +1Code GenerationMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

  35. Agentic Coding Needs Proactivity, Not Just Autonomy

    May 7, 2026Nghi D. Q. Bui, Georgios EvangelopoulosCoding AgentsProactive

  36. Mise en Place for Agentic Coding: Deliberate Preparation as Context Engineering Methodology

    May 6, 2026Andrew ZiglerCoding Agents

  37. Beyond BLEU: A Semantic Evaluation Method for Code Translation

    May 6, 2026Julius Näumann, Sven Keidel, Amir Molzam Sharifloo +1Code QualityCode Generation

  38. Executable World Models for ARC-AGI-3 in the Era of Coding Agents

    May 6, 2026Sergey RodionovCoding AgentsArtificial Intelligence Agents

  39. Architectural Constraints Alignment in AI-assisted, Platform-based Service Development

    May 6, 2026Julius Irion, Moritz Leugers, Paul Hartwig +5Ai-RanCode Generation

  40. Delta-Based Neural Architecture Search: LLM Fine-Tuning via Code Diffs

    May 6, 2026Santosh Premi Adhikari, Radu Timofte, Dmitry IgnatovLarge Language Model Fine-TuningNeural Architecture Search

  41. Bridging Generation and Training: A Systematic Review of Quality Issues in LLMs for Code

    May 6, 2026Kaifeng He, Xiaojun Zhang, Peiliang Cai +7Code GenerationCode Quality

  42. CodeEvolve: LLM-Driven Evolutionary Optimization with Runtime-Enriched Target Selection for Multi-Language Code Enhancement

    May 6, 2026Ajay Krishna Borra, Wenzhuo Yang, Samarth Arora +9Code OptimizationCodebases

  43. SWE-WebDevBench: Evaluating Coding Agent Application Platforms as Virtual Software Agencies

    May 6, 2026Siddhant Saxena, Nilesh Trivedi, Vinayaka JyothiSwe-Bench VerifiedCoding Agents

  44. Accountable Agents in Software Engineering: An Analysis of Terms of Service and a Research Roadmap

    May 6, 2026Christoph TreudeCoding AgentsSoftware Engineering

  45. Adaptive Consensus in LLM Ensembles via Sequential Evidence Accumulation: Automatic Budget Identification and Calibrated Commit Signals

    May 5, 2026Roberto E. MedinaEarly StoppingConfidence Calibration

  46. FMI_SU_Yotkova_Kastreva at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Lightweight Detection of LLM-Generated Code via Stylometric Signals

    May 5, 2026Elitsa Yotkova, Violeta Kastreva, Dimitar Dimitrov +2Code QualityMachine-Generated Text Detection

  47. MOSAIC-Bench: Measuring Compositional Vulnerability Induction in Coding Agents

    May 5, 2026Jonathan Steinberg, Oren GalCoding AgentsExploitation

  48. AI Advocate: Educational Path to Transform Squads to the Future

    May 5, 2026Carla Soares, Gabriel Moreira, Ana Paula Camargo +3Human-Ai CollaborationEducation

  49. Measuring and Mitigating Bias in Code Generated by Large Language Models

    May 5, 2026Yuxi Chen, Yutian Tang, Timothy StorerLarge Language Model BiasCode Generation

  50. ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs From Scratch?

    May 5, 2026John Yang, Kilian Lieret, Jeffrey Ma +9Agentic BenchmarksCodebases

  51. Learning Correct Behavior from Examples: Validating Sequential Execution in Autonomous Agents

    May 4, 2026Reshabh K Sharma, Gaurav Mittal, Yu HuProbabilistic Model CheckingTest Generation

  52. ARISE: A Repository-level Graph Representation and Toolset for Agentic Program Repair and Fault Localization

    May 4, 2026Shahd Seddik, Fahd Seddik, Amirrezza Esmaeili +2Repository-Level Code UnderstandingTraditional Dataflow Analysis

  53. AI-Generated Smells: An Analysis of Code and Architecture in LLM and Agent-Driven Development

    May 4, 2026Yuecai Zhu, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Peter C. RigbyCode GenerationOlfactory Perception

  54. LLM-Assisted Repository-Level Generation with Structured Spec-Driven Engineering

    May 4, 2026Shuzhao Feng, Boqi Chen, Brett H Meyer +1Code GenerationLlm-Driven

  55. Causal Software Engineering: A Vision and Roadmap

    May 4, 2026Roberto Pietrantuono, Luca Giamattei, Stefano Russo +2SoftwareCausal Reasoning

  56. MolViBench: Evaluating LLMs on Molecular Vibe Coding

    May 4, 2026Jiatong Li, Yuxuan Ren, Weida Wang +4Vast Chemical SpaceCode Generation

  57. The Conversations Beneath the Code: Triadic Data for Long-Horizon Software Engineering Agents

    May 4, 2026Yelin KimSoftware EngineeringLong-Horizon Agents

  58. Conventional Commit Classification using Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering

    May 3, 2026H. M. Sazzad Quadir, Sakib Al Hasan, Md. Nurul Ahad TawhidCommitsLarge Language

  59. Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained Code Models for AI-Generated Code Detection

    May 2, 2026Jany-Gabriel Ispas, Sergiu NisioiMachine-Generated Text DetectionCode Quality

  60. Feedback-Normalized Developer Memory for Reinforcement-Learning Coding Agents: A Safety-Gated MCP Architecture

    May 2, 2026Mehmet IscanCoding AgentsModel Context Protocol