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  1. AutoGUIWorld: Image Generators as Visual World Models for GUI Agent

    Oct 1, 2026Cheng Yang, Yifan Wu, Yutao Huang +18Visual GenerationAction Generation

    Hunyuan AI Data Team

  2. Is manual software optimization a thing of the past?

    Sep 29, 2026Pavlin G. Poličar, Martin Špendl, Tomaž HočevarSoftwarePrompt Optimization

    Faculty of Computer and Information Science University of Ljubljana Večna pot 113, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

  3. Retrieve, Reproduce, Reveal: Dissecting Retrieval-Augmented Software Vulnerability Detection

    Sep 29, 2026Sabrina Kaniewski, Tim Krämer, Julius Bächle +3Model VulnerabilitiesSoftware

    Institute for Secure Networked Systems, Esslingen University, Germany · Esslingen University, Germany · Institute for Intelligent Systems, Esslingen University, Germany +1

  4. Zero2Repo: Can Coding Agents Build Repositories from Scratch?

    Sep 29, 2026Pei Yang, Tianyu Shi, Yuhang Yao +23Coding AgentsSoftware

    Gradient Data · McGill University · Carnegie Mellon University +6

  5. LoLBench: Evaluating Coding Agents with Long-Horizon Proposals on Large Software Systems

    Sep 29, 2026Yun Peng, Zihan Wu, Zeyang Zhuang +6CodebasesCoding Agents

    Fudan University, China · City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong +5

  6. AnyAct: Universal Action for Self-Evolving Agents

    Sep 29, 2026Lingrui Xu, Yangqin Jiang, Jiachang Zhang +2Self-Evolving AgentsAction Space

    The University of Hong Kong

  7. Towards Certificate-Driven Software Porting: A Self-Improving Agentic Harness for Scientific Program Optimization

    Sep 28, 2026Piyush Jha, Aishik Ghosh, Vijay GaneshEvolutionary SearchCode Optimization

    School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA · School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

  8. MQSS-Selector: RL-Guided Pass Selection for an MLIR Compilation Pipeline

    Sep 24, 2026Andre Youssefi, Ercüment Kaya, Minh Chung +3Offline Reinforcement LearningSoftware

    Leibniz Supercomputing Centre · Technical University of Munich · Munich Quantum Valley +1

  9. Learning and Transferring Closed-Loop Robot Software

    Sep 17, 2026So Kuroki, Yujin TangRobot PoliciesRobocasa

    Sakana AI

  10. Reality Is the Final Verifier: On Two Key Gaps in Agentic Software Engineering

    Sep 14, 2026Alexander Krentsel, Shubham Agarwal, Mert Cemri +5SoftwareStakeholders

    UC Berkeley

  11. AI Exposure and AI Resilience: A Two-Dimensional Assessment Framework for Software and Software-Based Business Model

    Sep 12, 2026Paul Darius Mandl (Findustrial GmbH), Peter Mandl (Munich University of Applied Sciences), Martin Häusl (Munich University of Applied Sciences)Artificial Intelligence DeploymentArtificial Intelligence Evaluation

    Findustrial GmbH Schörfling am Attersee, Austria · Munich University of Applied Sciences Munich, Germany

  12. What a Random Draw from the MCP Registry Contains, and What Tool-Use Benchmarks Contain Instead

    Sep 12, 2026Haseeb Mohammed AfsarModel Context ProtocolControlling Tool Use

    Independent researcher

  13. Agent-Integrated Software: Interaction Contracts and Continuous Assurance

    Sep 12, 2026Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu ChenContractsSoftware Engineering

    Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany · State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

  14. FrogNano: Training a 4B Coding Agent via Online Task Synthesis

    Sep 7, 2026Minseon Kim, Zhengyan Shi, Emiliano Penaloza +14Coding AgentsSynthetic Task

    Froggy Team – Microsoft Research Montréal

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

    Aug 13, 2026Md Wasiul Haque, Sagar Dasgupta, Mizanur Rahman +1Program AnalysisExploitation

    Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama 2009 Smart Communities and Innovation Building (SCIB), 28 Kirkbride Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0288 · Department of Computer Science, The University of Alabama 3017 Cyber Hall, 248 Kirkbride Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0288

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

    Aug 12, 2026Shidong Pan, Clark LaChance, Zhen Tao +1PrivacyDocumentation

    New York University, USA · University of Maine, USA · Technical University of Munich, Germany

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

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

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of California, San Diego

  18. Persistent Recursive Worlds Enable Autonomous Software Evolution

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

    Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong SAR, China

  19. Software Engineering for and with GUI Agent

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

    State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China · Technical University of Munich, Germany

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

    Aug 9, 2026Kizito Salako, Rabiu Tsoho MuhammadAutomated VehiclesSoftware

    Centre for Software Reliability, City St. George’s, University of London, Northampton Square EC1V 0HB, U.K.

  21. The Scaffolding Matters More Than the Interface: A Controlled Comparison of MCP and CLI Tool Use Across Seven Agent Scaffoldings, Five Language Models, and One Software Task

    Aug 9, 2026Marc Alier Forment, María José Casañ Guerrero, Francisco José García-Peñalvo +1Coding AgentsModel Context Protocol

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain · Universidad de Salamanca (USAL), Salamanca, Spain · Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

  22. AgentForge: An Immersive Role-Playing Platform for Learning Agentic Software Engineering

    Aug 4, 2026Zihan Fang, Yueke Zhang, Yu HuangSoftware EngineeringSoftware

    Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee, USA

  23. Stylometric Defenses Against Author Impersonation in Software Repositories

    Aug 3, 2026Leonid Ravich, Michael FireAuthorshipStylometric

    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Computer Science Department

  24. Code Is the Body: Agent-Owned Software Bodies for Recursive Evolution and Descent

    Jul 30, 2026Roy Zhao, Zhenyu ZhaoSelf-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

    Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington · 1Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington · Independent Researcher +1

  25. Towards an Agent Operating System - Lessons from Classical and Cloud OS

    Jul 27, 2026Gosia Steinder, Hubertus FrankeProduction Agentic SystemsSoftware

    IBM T.J.Watson Research Center · Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

  26. Transformer-Assisted LLM-Based Source Code Summarisation: to Enable More Secure Software Development

    Jul 23, 2026Jesse Phillips, Tracy Hall, Paul Rayson +1Code QualitySummarization

    School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK · School of Computing · College of Engineering & Computer Science, VinUniversity, Vietnam

  27. The Memory Wall of Green Software: Empirical Energy Evaluation of Memento Design Pattern

    Jul 8, 2026Imane Jriri, Tarik Houichime, Younes El AmraniPeak MemorySoftware Engineering

    LRIT, Faculty of Science, Mohammed V University In Rabat, Rabat, 10112, Morocco · Meridian Team, LyRICA Laboratory, School of Information Sciences, Rabat 10100, Morocco

  28. Property-Driven Synthetic Data Engineering for Data-Scarce Software Systems: Reflections from the Breast Cancer Domain

    Jul 7, 2026Aurora Francesca Zanenga, Andrea Bombarda, Marsha Chechik +4Synthetic DataRadiotherapy

    University of Bergamo Bergamo, Italy · University of Toronto Toronto, Canada · Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, IRCCS Rozzano, Italy +2

  29. Benchmarking API Drift in LLM-Generated Quantum Code Across Successive SDK Versions

    Jul 5, 2026Mohammad Arif Rasyidi, Syahirul FaizQuantum Error CorrectionVersion

    Department of Computer Science Khalifa University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  30. Advanced Topic Modeling Techniques for Categorizing Software Vulnerabilities

    Jul 4, 2026Utkarsh Tiwari, Spoorthi M, Anirudh S +1Topic ModelingSoftware

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Amrita School of Computing, Bengaluru, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India

  31. Effectiveness of LLM-based Software Diversity for Reliability Improvement -- an Empirical Study

    Jul 3, 2026Gabriel Almeida, Ilir Gashi, Vladimir Stankovic +1Large Language Model ReliabilityCode Generation

    University of Coimbra, CISUC/LASI Department of Informatics Engineering Coimbra, Portugal · Centre for Software Reliability Department of Computer Science City St George’s, University of London London, United Kingdom

  32. A Trainable-by-Parts Operator Learning Framework: Bridging DeepONet and Karhunen-Loeve Expansions for Large-Scale Applications

    Jun 26, 2026Christian Munoz, Alexandre TartakovskyProbabilistic Operator LearningModern Deep Networks

    Civil Engineering Department University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 · Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,Jun Richland, WA 99352

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

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

    University of Naples Federico II, Italy

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

    Jun 25, 2026Hartwig GrabowskiSoftware EngineeringCoding Agents

    Hochschule Offenburg

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

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

    1JetBrains Research

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

    Jun 25, 2026Manar Alsaid, Chimdumebi Nebolisa, Faris AbbasRemediationDeception

    Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, East Texas A&M University, 2600 W. Neal Street, Commerce, 75428, Texas, United States · Department of Dual Enrollment and P-16 Programs, Texas Woman’s University, 3042026 Administration Drive, Denton, 76204, Texas, United States

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

    Jun 23, 2026Emmanuel Charleson Dapaah, Philip Makedonski, Jens GrabowskiData QualityTraining Data

    Institute of Computer Science University of Goettingen Goettingen, Germany

  38. ATLAS: Agentic Taxonomy of Large-Scale Software Ecosystems

    Jun 19, 2026Junyi Lu, Mengyao Lyu, Jiahui Wu +6TaxonomyOpen-Source

    Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore +2

  39. Calibration Without Comprehension: Diagnosing the Limits of Fine-Tuning LLMs for Vulnerability Detection in Systems Software

    Jun 18, 2026Arastoo Zibaeirad, Marco VieiraModel VulnerabilitiesLarge Language Model Safety

    University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA

  40. Open-SWE-Traces: Advancing Dual-Mode Multilingual Distillation for Software Engineering Agents

    Jun 14, 2026Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Nikolai Ludwig, Somshubra Majumdar +1Software EngineeringSoftware

    NVIDIA

  41. Graphical-Probabilistic Modeling of Generative Flows in LLM-Native Software Systems

    Jun 14, 2026Víctor A. Braberman, Flavia Bonomo-BrabermanLarge Language Model GenerationGenerative Flow Networks

    Departamento de Computación, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires / ICC, UBA-CONICET Buenos Aires, Argentina

  42. Facial Affect Analysis for Service-Oriented Systems: Advances, Challenges, and Future Visions

    Jun 13, 2026Spyridon Georgiou, Aggelos Psiris, Thomas Lagkas +4Facial Expression RecognitionMicroservices

    Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece · Department of Informatics, Faculty of Science, Democritus University of Thrace, Kavala, Greece · Department of Networks and Digital Media, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom +1

  43. Characterizing Software Aging in GPU-Based LLM Serving Systems

    Jun 10, 2026Domenico Cotroneo, Bojan CukicLarge Language Model ServingSoftware

    University of North Carolina at Charlotte · College of Computing and Informatics

  44. AI-Augmented Closed-Loop Quality Engineering: A Reference Architecture for Continuous Software Quality Intelligence

    Jun 7, 2026Dimple BajajSoftwareCode Quality

  45. Enhancing Software Engineering Through Closed-Loop Memory Optimization

    Jun 4, 2026Xuehang Guo, Zora Zhiruo Wang, Qingyun Wang +2Software EngineeringSoftware

    1William & Mary · 2Carnegie Mellon University · 3OpenHands +1

  46. The Biomimetic Architecture of Software 4.0

    Jun 1, 2026Philip Sheldrake, Dirk SchefflerSoftwareBio-Inspired Framework

    Unnamed Labs Amsterdam

  47. Automatically Attacking Software Reverse Engineering AI Agents

    May 28, 2026Brian Crawford, Justin Phillips, Patrick McClureReverse EngineeringDisassembly

    Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States

  48. Towards LLM-Assisted Architecture Recovery for Real-World ROS~2 Systems: An Agent-Based Multi-Level Approach to Hierarchical Structural Architecture Reconstruction

    May 19, 2026Dominique Briechle, Raj Chanchad, Tobias Geger +5Robot Operating SystemHierarchical

    Institute for Software and Systems Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 38678, Germany

  49. OpenComputer: Verifiable Software Worlds for Computer-Use Agents

    May 19, 2026Jinbiao Wei, Qianran Ma, Yilun Zhao +4Computer-Use AgentsVerification Framework

    Yale NLP Lab · University of Pennsylvania · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  50. Learning to Look Benign: Targeted Evasion of Malware Detectors via API Import Injection

    May 18, 2026Juozas Dautartas, Olga Kurasova, Juozapas Rokas Čypas +1MalwareEvasion

    Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania

  51. A Feature-Driven Framework for Software Fault Prediction

    May 17, 2026Ahmad Nauman Ghazi, Nagajyothi Devarapalli, Ashir Javeed +3Feature SelectionSoftware

    Department of Software Engineering Blekinge Institute of Technology Karlskrona, Sweden · Department of Computer Science Blekinge Institute of Technology Karlskrona, Sweden · Dept. of Computer Science and Media Technology Malmö University Malmö, Sweden +1

  52. Case Studies and Reflections on Agentic Software Engineering for Rapid Development of Digital Music Instruments

    May 13, 2026Matthew John Yee-KingSoftwarePlug-And-Play

    Computing, Goldsmiths London, UK

  53. Neurosymbolic Auditing of Natural-Language Software Requirements

    May 13, 2026Bethel Hall, William EiersFormal VerificationNeuro-Symbolic Framework

    Stevens Institute of Technology

  54. SkillOps: Managing LLM Agent Skill Libraries as Self-Maintaining Software Ecosystems

    May 13, 2026Hongji Pu, Xinyuan Song, Liang ZhaoReusable Agent SkillsUnsupervised Skill Discovery

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Emory University

  55. Qwen-Scope: Turning Sparse Features into Development Tools for Large Language Models

    May 12, 2026Boyi Deng, Xu Wang, Yaoning Wang +15Mechanistic InterpretabilityModel Activations

    Qwen Team

  56. DeepLog: A Software Framework for Modular Neurosymbolic AI

    May 11, 2026Robin Manhaeve, Stefano Colamonaco, Vincent Derkinderen +4Neuro-Symbolic FrameworkDeep Learning Framework

    Department of Computer Science and Leuven.AI KU Leuven, Belgium

  57. The AI-Native Large-Scale Agile Software Development Manifesto

    May 8, 2026Ricardo Britto, Fredrik Palmgren, Nishrith Saini +1Ai-NativeSoftware

    Ericsson, Sweden · Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

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

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

    Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo · Simula Research Laboratory · Danish Technological Institute

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

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

    Chair of Software Engineering, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany · Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany · Business School, Pforzheim University, Pforzheim, Germany +1

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

    May 7, 2026Cheonsu Jeong, Younggun ShinAutonomous AgentsSelf-Repair

    AX Center, SAMSUNG SDS, Seoul, South Korea · Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Graduate School of Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea