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  1. Adoption and Ecosystem Health: A Longitudinal Analysis of Open-Source Multi-Agent Frameworks

    Jul 2, 2026Xi Zhang, Papi Menon, Vivian Chu +1Modular Agentic FrameworkRepository

  2. Reasoning effort, not tool access, buys first-try reliability in agentic code generation: an observational study

    Jul 2, 2026Achint MehtaCoding AgentsCode Generation

  3. DecompRL: Solving Harder Problems by Learning Modular Code Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Juliette Decugis, Fabian Gloeckle, Francis Bach +2Code GenerationHard

  4. Steerability via constraints: a substrate for scalable oversight of coding agents

    Jul 2, 2026Thomas WinningerCoding AgentsScalable Oversight

  5. Understanding Agent-Based Patching of Compiler Missed Optimizations

    Jul 2, 2026Batu Guan, Zirui Wang, Shaohua LiCode OptimizationPrompt Optimization

  6. Coding-agents can replicate scientific machine learning papers

    Jul 2, 2026Atharva Hans, Ilias BilionisReproducibilityCoding Agents

  7. Prompt Coverage Adequacy

    Jul 2, 2026Florian Tambon, Michael Konstantinou, Cedric Richter +3Test GenerationPrompt Engineering

  8. ContextSniper: AntTrail's Token-Efficient Code Memory for Repository-Level Program Repair

    Jul 2, 2026Chiwang Luk, Matin Mohammad Najafi, Zhifeng Jia +6Coding Agents

  9. PairCoder++: Pair Programming as a Universal Paradigm for Verified Code-Driven Multimodal and Structured-Artifact Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Junhao Chen, Xiang Li, Mingjin Chen +9Code GenerationPair Programming

  10. An Exploratory Study on LLM-Generated Code and Comments in Code Repositories

    Jul 2, 2026Yongyi Ji, Jiaji Wang, Yi Zhou +2Code QualityCode Generation

  11. Decoupling Code Complexity from Newcomer Participation: A Causal Study of AI Coding Agent Adoption in OSS

    Jul 2, 2026Weiwei Xu, Xuanning Cui, Hengzhi Ye +1Coding AgentsCommits

  12. Agent4cs: A Multi-agent System for Code Summarization in Large Hierarchical Codebases

    Jul 1, 2026Yongjian Tang, Ezgi Sarikayak, Doruk Tuncel +2CodebasesCoding Agents

  13. Adoption and Impact of Command-Line AI Coding Agents: A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI

    Jul 1, 2026Emerson Murphy-Hill, Jenna Butler, Alexandra SavelievaCopilotCoding Agents

  14. The Rollout Infrastructure Tax in Coding-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 1, 2026Daniel Thi Graviet, Lovre Pesut, Ivan Dagelic +2Coding AgentsExecution Efficiency

  15. Are Performance-Optimization Benchmarks Reliably Measuring Coding Agents?

    Jul 1, 2026Zhi Chen, Zhensu Sun, Yuling Shi +2Swe-Bench VerifiedCode Optimization

  16. TAG: A Lightweight Framework for Test-Driven Agentic Artifact Generation

    Jul 1, 2026Yaniv Melamed, Yoni Zukerman, Michal Shechter +3Test GenerationLarge Language Model Generation

  17. Cheap Code, Costly Judgment: A Case Study on Governable Agentic Software Engineering

    Jul 1, 2026James C. Davis, Paschal C. Amusuo, Tanmay Singla +2Software EngineeringCoding Agents

  18. SWE-Doctor: Guiding Software Engineering Agents with Runtime Diagnosis from Multi-Faceted Bug Reproduction Tests

    Jul 1, 2026Yaoqi Guo, Yang Liu, Jie M. Zhang +3Swe-Bench VerifiedBug

  19. A Methodology for Investigating AI Patterns Prevalence in Software Repositories

    Jul 1, 2026Srinath Perera, Hasinthaka Piyumal, Frank Leymann +1RepositoryArtificial Intelligence Systems

  20. Constructing Epistemic AI Literacy: Detecting Epistemic Aims and Processes in Student-AI Co-Programming

    Jun 30, 2026Mengqian WuArtificial Intelligence LiteracyEpistemic Actions

  21. AxDafny: Agentic Verified Code Generation in Dafny

    Jun 30, 2026Benjamin Breen, Austin Letson, Borja Requena Pozo +1Formal VerificationCode Generation

  22. UniCoder: Unified Visual-to-Code Generation via Symbolic Rewards and Reference-Guided Code Optimization

    Jun 30, 2026Yaozhi Zheng, Yilei Jiang, Manyuan Zhang +5Visual GenerationCode Generation

  23. AlgoBench: Benchmarking Algorithmic Adaptation in Code Generation

    Jun 30, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun Cai, Liang ZhaoCode Generation

  24. An Empirical Study of Security Calibration in Large Language Models for Code

    Jun 30, 2026Mohammed Latif Siddiq, Md. Nafiu Rahman, Joanna C. S. SantosLarge Language Model SafetyVulnerable Code

  25. SWE-Router: Routing in Multi-turn Agentic Software Engineering Tasks

    Jun 30, 2026Seongho Son, Sangwoong Yoon, Jiahua Tang +3Large Language Model RoutingSoftware Engineering

  26. Words Speak Louder Than Code: Investigating Cognitive Heuristics in LLM-Based Code Vulnerability Detection

    Jun 29, 2026Asif Shahriar, Hongyu Cai, Hadjer Benkraouda +2Vulnerability Detection & RepairCode Quality

  27. SWE-INTERACT: Reimagining SWE Benchmarks as User-Driven Long-Horizon Coding Sessions

    Jun 29, 2026Mohit Raghavendra, Anisha Gunjal, Aakash Sabharwal +1Software EngineeringCoding Agents

  28. TraceLab: Characterizing Coding Agent Workloads for LLM Serving

    Jun 29, 2026Kan Zhu, Mathew Jacob, Chenxi Ma +4Coding AgentsLarge Language Model Serving

  29. To Tab or Not to Tab: Measuring Critical Engagement in AI Code Completion Tools Using Behavioral Signals and Attention Checks

    Jun 29, 2026Jessica Hutchison, Ian Tyler Applebaum, Kenneth Angelikas +6Code QualityComputer Science

  30. ManimAgent: Self-Evolving Multimodal Agents for Visual Education

    Jun 29, 2026Wenjia Jiang, Zongyuan Cai, Yuanhang Shao +7Multimodal AgentsCode Generation

  31. MirrorCode: AI can rebuild entire programs from behavior alone

    Jun 29, 2026Tom Adamczewski, David Owen, David Rein +4Coding AgentsAi-Ran

  32. SWE-Together: Evaluating Coding Agents in Interactive User Sessions

    Jun 29, 2026Yifan Wu, Zhuokai Zhao, Songlin Li +8Coding AgentsAgentic Benchmarks

  33. Reward-Free Code Alignment from Pretrained or Fine-Tuned LLM: Unpacking the Trade-offs for Code Generation

    Jun 27, 2026Sanjeepan Sivapiran, Gias UddinLarge Language Model AlignmentCode Quality

  34. Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution

    Jun 26, 2026Cunxi Yu, Chenhui Deng, Nathaniel Pinckney +1Self-Evolving AgentsRepository-Level Code Understanding

  35. Govern the Repository, Not the Agent: Measuring Ecosystem-Level Risk in AI-Native Software

    Jun 26, 2026Daniel RussoRepositoryRepository-Level Code Understanding

  36. Reasoning Beyond Prediction: From Data-Driven to Causal Software Engineering

    Jun 26, 2026Roberto Pietrantuono, Luca Giamattei, Stefano RussoSoftware EngineeringSoftware

  37. When AI Reviews Its Own Code: Recursive Self-Training Collapse in Code LLMs

    Jun 26, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun Cai, Liang ZhaoCode QualityCode Generation

  38. Dockerless: Environment-Free Program Verifier for Coding Agents

    Jun 26, 2026Wenhao Zeng, Yuling Shi, Xiaodong Gu +10VerifierCoding Agents

  39. SWE-MeM: Learning Adaptive Memory Management for Long-Horizon Coding Agents

    Jun 26, 2026Shuzheng Gao, Wenhao Zeng, Zhaojian Yu +5Agent MemoryLong-Horizon Agents

  40. Building to the Test: Coding Agents Deliver What You Check, Not What You Requested

    Jun 26, 2026Yanuo Ma, Ben Kereopa-Yorke, Ben SchultzCoding AgentsSelf-Awareness

  41. The Spec Growth Engine: Spec-Anchored, Code-Coupled, Drift-Enforced Architecture for AI-Assisted Software Development

    Jun 25, 2026Hartwig GrabowskiSoftware EngineeringAi-Ran

  42. A Deterministic Control Plane for LLM Coding Agents

    Jun 25, 2026Padmaraj MadathaCoding AgentsRepository

  43. Towards Evaluation of Implicit Software World Models in Coding LLMs

    Jun 25, 2026Egor Bogomolov, Yaroslav ZharovSoftware EngineeringSwe-Bench Verified

  44. Empirical Software Engineering TerraProbe: A Layered-Oracle Framework for Detecting Deceptive Fixes in LLM-Assisted Terraform

    Jun 25, 2026Manar Alsaid, Chimdumebi Nebolisa, Faris AbbasRemediationCode Quality

  45. An Empirical Study of LLM-Generated Specifications for VeriFast

    Jun 25, 2026Wen Fan, Minh Tran, Sanya Dod +5Formal VerificationCode Generation

  46. The Verification Horizon: No Silver Bullet for Coding Agent Rewards

    Jun 24, 2026Binghai Wang, Chenlong Zhang, Dayiheng Liu +10VerifierCoding Agents

  47. The Red Queen Gödel Machine: Co-Evolving Agents and Their Evaluators

    Jun 24, 2026Alex Iacob, Andrej Jovanović, William F. Shen +10Self-Evolving AgentsCounter Turing Test

  48. Recall Before Rerank: Benchmarking Deep Learning Models for Large-Scale Code-to-Code Retrieval

    Jun 24, 2026Leonardo Venuta, Francesco Tosoni, Paolo FerraginaCode GenerationReranking

  49. LibEvoBench: Probing Temporal Knowledge Stratification in Code Generation Models

    Jun 24, 2026Daniele Cipollone, Sergey Titov, Maliheh Izadi +2Code Generation

  50. Test-Input Generation for Tensor Programs: What Actually Finds Kernel Bugs

    Jun 23, 2026Dipankar SarkarFuzzingTensor Programs

  51. SoK: AI Secure Code Generation: Progress, Pitfalls, and Paths Forward

    Jun 23, 2026Rupam Patir, Keyan Guo, Haipeng Cai +1Code GenerationArtificial Intelligence Safety

  52. Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NFR Assessment

    Jun 23, 2026Ali Pourghasemi Fatideh, Wilder Baldwin, Maria Dhakal +2Multi-Turn Large Language Model ConversationsLlm-Based Agent

  53. MANGO: Automated Multi-Agent Test Oracle Generation for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 23, 2026Pablo Valle, Shaukat Ali, Aitor Arrieta +1Executable Robot BehaviorTest Generation

  54. NatureBench: Can Coding Agents Match the Published SOTA of Nature-Family Papers?

    Jun 23, 2026Yuru Wang, Lejun Cheng, Yuxin Zuo +14Scientific DiscoveryAgentic Benchmarks

  55. Bayesian control for coding agents

    Jun 23, 2026Theodore Papamarkou, Vladislav Smirnov, Viktor Mazanov +4Coding AgentsLarge Language Model Generation

  56. Detecting AI Coding Agents in Open Source: A Validated Multi-Method Census of 180 Million Repositories

    Jun 23, 2026Arsham Khosravani, Audris MockusRepositoryCoding Agents

  57. Training Dynamics of Neural Software Defect Predictors under Coupled Data-Quality Issues

    Jun 23, 2026Emmanuel Charleson Dapaah, Philip Makedonski, Jens GrabowskiClass ImbalanceTraining Data

  58. Digital Humanism and Evolutionary Design

    Jun 22, 2026Wolfgang HöhlSoftware EngineeringEvolution

  59. DeepDiscovery: A Location-Inference Framework for Task-Level Repository Understanding

    Jun 22, 2026Jiawei He, Weisong Sun, Mengyu Shi +4CodebasesLarge Language Model Baselines

  60. RigorBench: Benchmarking Engineering Process Discipline in Autonomous AI Coding Agents

    Jun 21, 2026Meher Bhaskar Madiraju, Meher Sai Preetam MadirajuCoding AgentsAgentic Benchmarks