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Tables & Resources: Knowledge Explorer for Automated Issue Resolution

This page is the public query hub for the reviewed corpus. Instead of mirroring the survey chapter-by-chapter, it is organized around four reader tasks: understanding the field quickly, finding papers efficiently, comparing methods meaningfully, and locating reusable resources.

Quick Insights

These summary rows are intended to answer the most common first-pass questions a reader has when arriving at the survey site.

Question Answer Evidence
Most dominant knowledge type Existing Code Knowledge remains the universal core of current issue-resolution systems. 128 / 133 papers
Fastest-rising procedural factor Development Tool Knowledge and execution-grounded interaction increasingly dominate post-2025 systems. 49 papers in latest-half slice
Main shift in recent work The field is moving from static code retrieval toward feedback-driven, process-aware, and history-aware agent workflows. Development Tool Knowledge + Existing Code Knowledge is the top co-occurrence
Most underexplored knowledge Domain, language, and architecture knowledge remain sparse despite their importance in real-world repair settings. Each remains below 10% of the included corpus
Workflow hotspots Localization, patch generation, and patch validation absorb the largest share of knowledge-intensive systems. These stages dominate the corpus-wide usage-stage distribution

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Knowledge Coverage Summary

This table compresses the survey's core coding dimensions into a single field map, showing how each knowledge type is typically sourced, represented, used, and applied.

Knowledge Type Share Main Source Main Stage Common Representation Common Usage Trend Key Papers
Existing Code Knowledge 96.2% Codebase Localization Unstructured Text Tool Invocation Stable core
GraphLocator: Graph-guided Causal Reasoning for Issue Localization
Agentic Rubrics as Contextual Verifiers for SWE Agents
Dars: Dynamic action re-sampling to enhance coding agent performance by adaptive tree traversal
Development Tool Knowledge 77.4% Codebase Localization Unstructured Text Tool Invocation Rising
Otter: Generating tests from issues to validate swe patches
SWE-Replay: Efficient Test-Time Scaling for Software Engineering Agents
Experiential Knowledge 51.1% Dynamic Execution Results Localization Unstructured Text Tool Invocation Rising fast
Swe-exp: Experience-driven software issue resolution
SWE-Master: Unleashing the Potential of Software Engineering Agents via Post-Training
Repository Evolution Knowledge 32.3% Codebase Localization Unstructured Text Direct Prompt Rising
BLAZE: Cross-language and cross-project bug localization via dynamic chunking and hard example learning
Closing the Loop: Universal Repository Representation with RPG-Encoder
SIADAFIX: issue description response for adaptive program repair
Design Architecture Knowledge 9.8% Codebase Patch Generation Unstructured Text Direct Prompt Emerging
BeyondSWE: Can Current Code Agent Survive Beyond Single-Repo Bug Fixing?
Architecture-Aware Multi-Design Generation for Repository-Level Feature Addition
Technology Stack Knowledge 3.0% Codebase Localization Unstructured Text Tool Invocation Sparse but important
BeyondSWE: Can Current Code Agent Survive Beyond Single-Repo Bug Fixing?
ArkEval: Benchmarking and Evaluating Automated CodeRepair for ArkTS
Programming Language Knowledge 2.3% Codebase Localization Unstructured Text Direct Prompt Sparse but important
Evaluating and Improving Automated Repository-Level Rust Issue Resolution with LLM-based Agents
ArkEval: Benchmarking and Evaluating Automated CodeRepair for ArkTS
Domain-specific Knowledge 0.8% Codebase Environment Building Unstructured Text Direct Prompt Highly underexplored
BeyondSWE: Can Current Code Agent Survive Beyond Single-Repo Bug Fixing?

Underexplored Opportunities

These rows translate low-coverage knowledge dimensions into concrete research opportunities rather than leaving them as isolated counts.

Gap Current Coverage Why It Matters Candidate Papers Opportunity
Domain-specific knowledge 0.8% of papers Real-world issue resolution often depends on domain semantics that generic repository reasoning cannot recover from code alone. BeyondSWE High
Programming-language knowledge 2.3% of papers Multilingual and low-resource repair settings need stronger language-semantic grounding than current Python-heavy pipelines provide. ArkEval
Rust issue resolution
SWE-Rank+
High
Design / architecture knowledge 9.8% of papers Passing tests does not guarantee alignment with repository-wide constraints, module responsibilities, or intended architecture. RPG-Encoder
Agentic Rubrics
ToM-SWE
Very high
Document-grounded reasoning 11 document-linked papers Specifications, migration notes, and framework guidance are increasingly necessary in non-trivial issue settings. BeyondSWE
ArkEval
Agentic Rubrics
Medium-high

Reading Entry Table

If a reader enters the field from a specific angle, this table gives a better starting path than a raw tag directory.

If You Care About... Start With Why
Execution feedback Swe-agent: Agent-computer interfaces enable automated software engineering
R2e-gym: Procedural environments and hybrid verifiers for scaling open-weights swe agents
Otter: Generating tests from issues to validate swe patches
These systems make tool interaction, runtime evidence, and executable validation central to the repair loop.
Memory / experience EXPEREPAIR: Dual-Memory Enhanced LLM-based Repository-Level Program Repair
Swe-exp: Experience-driven software issue resolution
Reasoningbank: Scaling agent self-evolving with reasoning memory
They show how prior trajectories, reflections, and reusable strategy memory can guide future issue resolution.
Repository history KGCompass: Knowledge Graph Enhanced Repository-Level Software Repair
SweRank: Software Issue Localization with Code Ranking
Improving Code Localization with Repository Memory
These works foreground commits, issues, historical fixes, and repository memory as explicit retrieval signals.
Architecture-aware repair Closing the Loop: Universal Repository Representation with RPG-Encoder
Agentic Rubrics as Contextual Verifiers for SWE Agents
Tom-swe: User mental modeling for software engineering agents
They expose how design intent and global repository constraints enter planning, patching, and validation.
Benchmark / training resources SWE-Factory: Your Automated Factory for Issue Resolution Training Data and Evaluation Benchmarks
Training software engineering agents and verifiers with swe-gym
R2e-gym: Procedural environments and hybrid verifiers for scaling open-weights swe agents
These papers are the best entry points if the goal is to build training environments, evaluation infrastructure, or reusable baselines.

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Knowledge Taxonomy Explorer

The taxonomy explorer remains as a fast navigation entry point, but its role here is to drive filtering rather than duplicate the whole survey narrative.

L1 Background Knowledge

Programming Language Knowledge

3 papers / 2.3%

This category captures language-level constraints that a repository-grounded agent cannot ignore, including syntax, type systems, runtime semantics, and idiomatic repair patterns. In the survey corpus, it appears most clearly when issue resolution must generalize across languages or obey language-specific rules such as Rust ownership or ArkTS compilation constraints.

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Domain-specific Knowledge

1 papers / 0.8%

This category covers application semantics that live outside generic software engineering knowledge, such as scientific concepts, platform-specific business rules, or field-specific constraints. Although rare in the current corpus, it becomes essential once issue resolution moves beyond standard single-repository bug fixing into tasks where correct patches depend on understanding the target domain itself.

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Technology Stack Knowledge

4 papers / 3.0%

This category refers to libraries, frameworks, APIs, platform conventions, and dependency ecosystems that shape what counts as a compatible repair. It is especially important in migration, compatibility, and platform-constrained tasks, where an agent must reason about external components rather than only the repository's local implementation.

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L2 Repository Knowledge

Design Architecture Knowledge

13 papers / 9.8%

This category captures higher-level repository intent: architectural decomposition, component responsibilities, design constraints, and cross-module coordination logic. It becomes important when systems must produce patches that preserve global structure, satisfy implicit project conventions, or align edits with intended repository organization rather than only local code correctness.

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L3 Procedural Knowledge

Preset Filters

These presets expose higher-level reading intentions directly, so readers do not need to build every query manually from raw dropdowns.

Master Paper Table

The controls below support shareable prefilters through the page URL, so links from Home or preset cards can open this table already narrowed to a knowledge type, source, stage, or method family.

Code = Existing Code Knowledge

Tool = Development Tool Knowledge

History = Repository Evolution Knowledge

Memory = Experiential Knowledge

Arch = Design Architecture Knowledge

Lang = Programming Language Knowledge

Stack = Technology Stack Knowledge

Domain = Domain-specific Knowledge

Showing 133 of 133 papers.

Paper Year Venue Focus Knowledge Profile Method Style Benchmark / Setting Link
BeyondSWE: Can Current Code Agent Survive Beyond Single-Repo Bug Fixing?

`chen2026beyondswe` · Chen, Guoxin; Meng, Fanzhe; Zhao, Jiale; Li, Minghao; Cheng, Daixuan; Song, Huatong; Chen, Jie; Lin, Yuzhi; Chen, Hui; Zhao, Xin; others

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.03194 Validation / testing
Arch Tool Domain Code
Tool-centric BeyondSWE arXiv:2603.03194
SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via Continuous Integration

`chen2026swe` · Chen, Jialong; Xu, Xander; Wei, Hu; Chen, Chuan; Zhao, Bing

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.03823 Benchmark / infrastructure
Agentic arXiv:2603.03823
SWE-Replay: Efficient Test-Time Scaling for Software Engineering Agents

`ding2026swe` · Ding, Yifeng; Zhang, Lingming

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.22129 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2601.22129
SWE-Prot$\backslash$'eg$\backslash$'e: Learning to Selectively Collaborate With an Expert Unlocks Small Language Models as Software Engineering Agents

`kon2026swe` · Kon, Patrick Tser Jern; Pradeep, Archana; Chen, Ang; Ellis, Alexander P; Hunt, Warren; Wang, Zijian; Yang, John; Thompson, Samuel

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.22124 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2602.22124
Architecture-Aware Multi-Design Generation for Repository-Level Feature Addition

`liu2026architecture` · Liu, Mingwei; Chen, Zhenxi; Pei, Zheng; Wang, Zihao; Wang, Yanlin; Zheng, Zibin

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.01814 Architecture / constraint-aware
Arch Tool Code
Graph-based arXiv:2603.01814
Dynamic analysis enhances issue resolution

`liu2026dynamic` · Liu, Mingwei; Wang, Zihao; Chen, Zhenxi; Pei, Zheng; Wang, Yanlin; Zheng, Zibin

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.22048 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2603.22048
Closing the Loop: Universal Repository Representation with RPG-Encoder

`luo2026closing` · Luo, Jane; Yin, Chengyu; Zhang, Xin; Li, Qingtao; Liu, Steven; Huang, Yiming; Wu, Jie; Liu, Hao; Huang, Yangyu; Kang, Yu; others

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02084 History-aware reasoning
Arch Tool Code History
Graph-based arXiv:2602.02084
Agentic Rubrics as Contextual Verifiers for SWE Agents

`raghavendra2026agentic` · Raghavendra, Mohit; Gunjal, Anisha; Liu, Bing; He, Yunzhong

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.04171 Training / post-training
Arch Tool Code
Training-based / RL arXiv:2601.04171
SWE-Master: Unleashing the Potential of Software Engineering Agents via Post-Training

`song2026swe` · Song, Huatong; Huang, Lisheng; Sun, Shuang; Jiang, Jinhao; Le, Ran; Cheng, Daixuan; Chen, Guoxin; Hu, Yiwen; Chen, Zongchao; Jia, Yiming; others

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.03411 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2602.03411
SWE-Tester: Training Open-Source LLMs for Issue Reproduction in Real-World Repositories

`soni2026swe` · Soni, Aditya Bharat; Ghosh, Rajat; Bhargava, Vaishnavi; Chen, Valerie; Dutta, Debojyoti

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.13713 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2601.13713
Swe-lego: Pushing the limits of supervised fine-tuning for software issue resolving

`tao2026swe` · Tao, Chaofan; Chen, Jierun; Jiang, Yuxin; Kou, Kaiqi; Wang, Shaowei; Wang, Ruoyu; Li, Xiaohui; Yang, Sidi; Du, Yiming; Dai, Jianbo; others

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01426 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2601.01426
Empowering Autonomous Debugging Agents with Efficient Dynamic Analysis

`xiang2026empowering` · Xiang, Jiahong; Xu, Xiaoyang; Chu, Xiaopan; Tian, Hongliang; Zhang, Yuqun

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.24212 Localization
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2604.24212
Evaluating and Improving Automated Repository-Level Rust Issue Resolution with LLM-based Agents

`xiang2026evaluating` · Xiang, Jiahong; He, Wenxiao; Wang, Xihua; Tian, Hongliang; Zhang, Yuqun

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.22764 Benchmark / infrastructure
Tool Code Lang
Tool-centric Language-specific arXiv:2602.22764
ArkEval: Benchmarking and Evaluating Automated CodeRepair for ArkTS

`xie2026arkeval` · Xie, Bang; Zhang, Senjian; Peng, Zhiyuan; Chen, Wei; Ying, Chenhao; Luo, Yuan

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08866 Benchmark / infrastructure
Tool Code Lang History
Tool-centric ArkTS / HarmonyOS arXiv:2602.08866
Does Pass Rate Tell the Whole Story? Evaluating Design Constraint Compliance in LLM-based Issue Resolution

`yu2026does` · Yu, Kai; Zhou, Zhenhao; Zeng, Junhao; Wang, Ying; Du, Xueying; Yuan, Zhiqiang; Liu, Junwei; Zhou, Ziyu; Wang, Yujia; Wang, Chong; others

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05955 Benchmark / infrastructure
Arch Code History
Pipeline arXiv:2604.05955
SWE-MiniSandbox: Container-Free Reinforcement Learning for Building Software Engineering Agents

`yuan2026swe` · Yuan, Danlong; Wu, Wei; Wang, Zhengren; Zhao, Xueliang; Zhang, Huishuai; Zhao, Dongyan

2026 arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.11210 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL Evaluation / infra arXiv:2602.11210
Dars: Dynamic action re-sampling to enhance coding agent performance by adaptive tree traversal

`aggarwal2025dars` · Aggarwal, Vaibhav; Kamal, Ojasv; Japesh, Abhinav; Jin, Zhijing; Sch{\"o}lkopf, Bernhard

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.14269 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Graph-based arXiv:2503.14269
Otter: Generating tests from issues to validate swe patches

`ahmed2025otter` · Ahmed, Toufique; Ganhotra, Jatin; Pan, Rangeet; Shinnar, Avraham; Sinha, Saurabh; Hirzel, Martin

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.05368 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code History
Tool-centric arXiv:2502.05368
2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.16059 History-aware reasoning
Arch Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2510.16059
BLAZE: Cross-language and cross-project bug localization via dynamic chunking and hard example learning

`chakraborty2025blaze` · Chakraborty, Partha; Alfadel, Mahmoud; Nagappan, Meiyappan

2025 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering History-aware reasoning
Code History
Graph-based Scholar
Bridging Bug Localization and Issue Fixing: A Hierarchical Localization Framework Leveraging Large Language Models

`chang2025bridging` · Chang, Jianming; Zhou, Xin; Wang, Lulu; Lo, David; Li, Bixin

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15292 History-aware reasoning
Code History
Graph-based arXiv:2502.15292
Locagent: Graph-guided llm agents for code localization

`chen2025locagent` · Chen, Zhaoling; Tang, Xiangru; Deng, Gangda; Wu, Fang; Wu, Jialong; Jiang, Zhiwei; Prasanna, Viktor; Cohan, Arman; Wang, Xingyao

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.09089 Training / post-training
Code Memory
Graph-based arXiv:2503.09089
When Old Meets New: Evaluating the Impact of Regression Tests on SWE Issue Resolution

`chen2025old` · Chen, Yang; Ahmed, Toufique; Jabbarvand, Reyhaneh; Hirzel, Martin

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18270 Benchmark / infrastructure
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2510.18270
Prometheus: Unified knowledge graphs for issue resolution in multilingual codebases

`chen2025prometheus` · Chen, Zimin; Pan, Yue; Lu, Siyu; Xu, Jiayi; Goues, Claire Le; Monperrus, Martin; Ye, He

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19942 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Graph-based Language-specific arXiv:2507.19942
Swe-exp: Experience-driven software issue resolution

`chen2025swe` · Chen, Silin; Lin, Shaoxin; Gu, Xiaodong; Shi, Yuling; Lian, Heng; Yun, Longfei; Chen, Dong; Sun, Weiguo; Cao, Lin; Wang, Qianxiang

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.23361 Memory / experience
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2507.23361
Cwm: An open-weights llm for research on code generation with world models

`copet2025cwm` · Copet, Jade; Carbonneaux, Quentin; Cohen, Gal; Gehring, Jonas; Kahn, Jacob; Kossen, Jannik; Kreuk, Felix; McMilin, Emily; Meyer, Michel; Wei, Yuxiang; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.02387 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2510.02387
Agent-RLVR: Training Software Engineering Agents via Guidance and Environment Rewards

`da2025agent` · Da, Jeff; Wang, Clinton; Deng, Xiang; Ma, Yuntao; Barhate, Nikhil; Hendryx, Sean

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.11425 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2506.11425
Lita: Light Agent Uncovers the Agentic Coding Capabilities of LLMs

`dai2025lita` · Dai, Hankun; Wang, Maoquan; Qi, Mengnan; Zhang, Yikai; Jin, Zijian; Yao, Yongqiang; Huang, Yufan; Fu, Shengyu; Nallipogu, Elsie

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.25873 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2509.25873
Codemonkeys: Scaling test-time compute for software engineering

`ehrlich2025codemonkeys` · Ehrlich, Ryan; Brown, Bradley; Juravsky, Jordan; Clark, Ronald; R{\'e}, Christopher; Mirhoseini, Azalia

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.14723 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2501.14723
When agents go astray: Course-correcting swe agents with prms

`gandhi2025agents` · Gandhi, Shubham; Tsay, Jason; Ganhotra, Jatin; Kate, Kiran; Rizk, Yara

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.02360 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2509.02360
Trae agent: An llm-based agent for software engineering with test-time scaling

`gao2025trae` · Gao, Pengfei; Tian, Zhao; Meng, Xiangxin; Wang, Xinchen; Hu, Ruida; Xiao, Yuanan; Liu, Yizhou; Zhang, Zhao; Chen, Junjie; Gao, Cuiyun; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.23370 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2507.23370
Training long-context, multi-turn software engineering agents with reinforcement learning

`golubev2025training` · Golubev, Alexander; Trofimova, Maria; Polezhaev, Sergei; Badertdinov, Ibragim; Nekrashevich, Maksim; Shevtsov, Anton; Karasik, Simon; Abramov, Sergey; Andriushchenko, Andrei; Fisin, Filipp; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.03501 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2508.03501
SWE-Factory: Your Automated Factory for Issue Resolution Training Data and Evaluation Benchmarks

`guo2025swe` · Guo, Lianghong; Wang, Yanlin; Li, Caihua; Yang, Pengyu; Chen, Jiachi; Tao, Wei; Zou, Yingtian; Tang, Duyu; Zheng, Zibin

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.10954 Benchmark / infrastructure
Tool Code History
Training-based / RL Evaluation / infra arXiv:2506.10954
2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.20081 Benchmark / infrastructure
Code
RAG-based arXiv:2506.20081
Seeing is Fixing: Cross-Modal Reasoning with Multimodal LLMs for Visual Software Issue Fixing

`huang2025seeing` · Huang, Kai; Zhang, Jian; Xie, Xiaofei; Chen, Chunyang

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16136 Validation / testing
Arch Code
RAG-based arXiv:2506.16136
R2e-gym: Procedural environments and hybrid verifiers for scaling open-weights swe agents

`jain2025r2e` · Jain, Naman; Singh, Jaskirat; Shetty, Manish; Zheng, Liang; Sen, Koushik; Stoica, Ion

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.07164 Benchmark / infrastructure
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL Training environment arXiv:2504.07164
CoSIL: Software Issue Localization via LLM-Driven Code Repository Graph Searching

`jiang2025cosil` · Jiang, Zhonghao; Ren, Xiaoxue; Yan, Meng; Jiang, Wei; Li, Yong; Liu, Zhongxin

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.22424 Patching
Code
Graph-based arXiv:2503.22424
Putting It All into Context: Simplifying Agents with LCLMs

`jiang2025putting` · Jiang, Mingjian; Ruan, Yangjun; Lastras, Luis; Kapanipathi, Pavan; Hashimoto, Tatsunori

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.08120 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2505.08120
InfantAgent-Next: A Multimodal Generalist Agent for Automated Computer Interaction

`lei2025infantagent` · Lei, Bin; Kang, Weitai; Zhang, Zijian; Chen, Winson; Xie, Xi; Zuo, Shan; Xie, Mimi; Payani, Ali; Hong, Mingyi; Yan, Yan; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.10887 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2505.10887
InfCode: Adversarial Iterative Refinement of Tests and Patches for Reliable Software Issue Resolution

`li2025infcode` · Li, KeFan; Wang, Mengfei; Zhang, Hengzhi; Li, Zhichao; Yuan, Yuan; Li, Mu; Gao, Xiang; Sun, Hailong; Hu, Chunming; Lv, Weifeng

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.16004 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2511.16004
PatchPilot: A Cost-Efficient Software Engineering Agent with Early Attempts on Formal Verification

`li2025patchpilot` · Li, Hongwei; Tang, Yuheng; Wang, Shiqi; Guo, Wenbo

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.02747 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Tool-centric arXiv:2502.02747
Swe-debate: Competitive multi-agent debate for software issue resolution

`li2025swe` · Li, Han; Shi, Yuling; Lin, Shaoxin; Gu, Xiaodong; Lian, Heng; Wang, Xin; Jia, Yantao; Huang, Tao; Wang, Qianxiang

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.23348 Validation / testing
Arch Tool Code
Multi-agent arXiv:2507.23348
Se-agent: Self-evolution trajectory optimization in multi-step reasoning with llm-based agents

`lin2025se` · Lin, Jiaye; Guo, Yifu; Han, Yuzhen; Hu, Sen; Ni, Ziyi; Wang, Licheng; Chen, Mingguang; Liu, Hongzhang; Chen, Ronghao; He, Yangfan; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.02085 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Memory-based arXiv:2508.02085
The Complexity Trap: Simple Observation Masking Is as Efficient as LLM Summarization for Agent Context Management

`lindenbauer2025complexity` · Lindenbauer, Tobias; Slinko, Igor; Felder, Ludwig; Bogomolov, Egor; Zharov, Yaroslav

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.21433 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Tool-centric arXiv:2508.21433
Context as a tool: Context management for long-horizon swe-agents

`liu2025context` · Liu, Shukai; Yang, Jian; Jiang, Bo; Li, Yizhi; Guo, Jinyang; Liu, Xianglong; Dai, Bryan

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22087 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2512.22087
GraphLocator: Graph-guided Causal Reasoning for Issue Localization

`liu2025graphlocator` · Liu, Wei; Peng, Chao; Gao, Pengfei; Liu, Aofan; Zhang, Wei; Zhao, Haiyan; Jin, Zhi

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22469 Localization
Tool Code
Graph-based arXiv:2512.22469
Alibaba lingmaagent: Improving automated issue resolution via comprehensive repository exploration

`ma2025alibaba` · Ma, Yingwei; Yang, Qingping; Cao, Rongyu; Li, Binhua; Huang, Fei; Li, Yongbin

2025 Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Graph-based Scholar
Sorft: Issue resolving with subtask-oriented reinforced fine-tuning

`ma2025sorft` · Ma, Zexiong; Peng, Chao; Gao, Pengfei; Meng, Xiangxin; Zou, Yanzhen; Xie, Bing

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.20127 History-aware reasoning
Code History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2502.20127
Thinking longer, not larger: Enhancing software engineering agents via scaling test-time compute

`ma2025thinking` · Ma, Yingwei; Li, Yongbin; Dong, Yihong; Jiang, Xue; Li, Yanhao; Liu, Yue; Cao, Rongyu; Chen, Jue; Huang, Fei; Li, Binhua

2025 2025 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL Scholar
Tool-integrated reinforcement learning for repo deep search

`ma2025tool` · Ma, Zexiong; Peng, Chao; Zeng, Qunhong; Gao, Pengfei; Zou, Yanzhen; Xie, Bing

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.03012 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2508.03012
EXPEREPAIR: Dual-Memory Enhanced LLM-based Repository-Level Program Repair

`mu2025experepair` · Mu, Fangwen; Wang, Junjie; Shi, Lin; Wang, Song; Li, Shoubin; Wang, Qing

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.10484 Memory / experience
Tool Code Memory
Memory-based arXiv:2506.10484
Issue2test: Generating reproducing test cases from issue reports

`nashid2025issue2test` · Nashid, Noor; Bouzenia, Islem; Pradel, Michael; Mesbah, Ali

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16320 Validation / testing
Arch Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2503.16320
Reasoningbank: Scaling agent self-evolving with reasoning memory

`ouyang2025reasoningbank` · Ouyang, Siru; Yan, Jun; Hsu, I; Chen, Yanfei; Jiang, Ke; Wang, Zifeng; Han, Rujun; Le, Long T; Daruki, Samira; Tang, Xiangru; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.25140 Memory / experience
Tool Code Memory
Memory-based arXiv:2509.25140
SemAgent: A Semantics Aware Program Repair Agent

`pabba2025semagent` · Pabba, Anvith; Mathai, Alex; Chakraborty, Anindya; Ray, Baishakhi

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16650 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2506.16650
Codecor: An llm-based self-reflective multi-agent framework for code generation

`pan2025codecor` · Pan, Ruwei; Zhang, Hongyu; Liu, Chao

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.07811 Validation / testing
Tool
Multi-agent arXiv:2501.07811
Forecasting Frontier Language Model Agent Capabilities

`pimpale2025forecasting` · Pimpale, Govind; H{\o}jmark, Axel; Scheurer, J{\'e}r{\'e}my; Hobbhahn, Marius

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15850 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2502.15850
Devstral: Fine-tuning Language Models for Coding Agent Applications

`rastogi2025devstral` · Rastogi, Abhinav; Yang, Adam; Jiang, Albert Q; Liu, Alexander H; Sablayrolles, Alexandre; H{\'e}liou, Am{\'e}lie; Martin, Am{\'e}lie; Agarwal, Anmol; Ehrenberg, Andy; Lo, Andy; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.25193 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2509.25193
SweRank: Software Issue Localization with Code Ranking

`reddy2025swerank` · Reddy, Revanth Gangi; Suresh, Tarun; Doo, JaeHyeok; Liu, Ye; Nguyen, Xuan Phi; Zhou, Yingbo; Yavuz, Semih; Xiong, Caiming; Ji, Heng; Joty, Shafiq

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.07849 History-aware reasoning
Code History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2505.07849
SweRank+: Multilingual, Multi-Turn Code Ranking for Software Issue Localization

`reddy2025swerank+` · Reddy, Revanth Gangi; Liu, Ye; Zhao, Wenting; Doo, JaeHyeok; Suresh, Tarun; Lee, Daniel; Xiong, Caiming; Zhou, Yingbo; Yavuz, Semih; Joty, Shafiq

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.20482 History-aware reasoning
Code Memory Lang History
Training-based / RL Language-specific arXiv:2512.20482
Specrover: Code intent extraction via llms

`ruan2025specrover` · Ruan, Haifeng; Zhang, Yuntong; Roychoudhury, Abhik

2025 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric Scholar
Aime: Towards Fully-Autonomous Multi-Agent Framework

`shi2025aime` · Shi, Yexuan; Wang, Mingyu; Cao, Yunxiang; Lai, Hongjie; Lan, Junjian; Han, Xin; Wang, Yu; Geng, Jie; Li, Zhenan; Xia, Zihao; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.11988 Patching
Tool Code
Multi-agent arXiv:2507.11988
SWE-RM: Execution-free Feedback For Software Engineering Agents

`shum2025swe` · Shum, KaShun; Hui, Binyuan; Chen, Jiawei; Zhang, Lei; Yang, Jiaxi; Huang, Yuzhen; Lin, Junyang; He, Junxian; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.21919 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2512.21919
Nemotron-cortexa: Enhancing llm agents for software engineering tasks via improved localization and solution diversity

`sohrabizadeh2025nemotron` · Sohrabizadeh, Atefeh; Song, Jialin; Liu, Mingjie; Roy, Rajarshi; Lee, Chankyu; Raiman, Jonathan; Catanzaro, Bryan

2025 Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning History-aware reasoning
Tool Code History
Graph-based Scholar
Coding Agents with Multimodal Browsing are Generalist Problem Solvers

`soni2025coding` · Soni, Aditya Bharat; Li, Boxuan; Wang, Xingyao; Chen, Valerie; Neubig, Graham

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.03011 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2506.03011
Bugpilot: Complex bug generation for efficient learning of swe skills

`sonwane2025bugpilot` · Sonwane, Atharv; White, Isadora; Lee, Hyunji; Pereira, Matheus; Caccia, Lucas; Kim, Minseon; Shi, Zhengyan; Singh, Chinmay; Sordoni, Alessandro; C{\^o}t{\'e}, Marc-Alexandre; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.19898 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2510.19898
Learn-by-interact: A data-centric framework for self-adaptive agents in realistic environments

`su2025learn` · Su, Hongjin; Sun, Ruoxi; Yoon, Jinsung; Yin, Pengcheng; Yu, Tao; Ar{\i}k, Sercan {\"O}

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.10893 Training / post-training
Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2501.10893
Scaling long-horizon llm agent via context-folding

`sun2025scaling` · Sun, Weiwei; Lu, Miao; Ling, Zhan; Liu, Kang; Yao, Xuesong; Yang, Yiming; Chen, Jiecao

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.11967 Training / post-training
Tool Code
Training-based / RL arXiv:2510.11967
Agent kb: Leveraging cross-domain experience for agentic problem solving

`tang2025agent` · Tang, Xiangru; Qin, Tianrui; Peng, Tianhao; Zhou, Ziyang; Shao, Daniel; Du, Tingting; Wei, Xinming; Xia, Peng; Wu, Fang; Zhu, He; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.06229 Memory / experience
Memory
RAG-based arXiv:2507.06229
Boosting Open-Source LLMs for Program Repair via Reasoning Transfer and LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning

`tang2025boosting` · Tang, Xunzhu; Klein, Jacques; Bissyand{\'e}, Tegawend{\'e} F

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.03921 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2506.03921
Co-PatcheR: Collaborative Software Patching with Component (s)-specific Small Reasoning Models

`tang2025co` · Tang, Yuheng; Li, Hongwei; Zhu, Kaijie; Yang, Michael; Ding, Yangruibo; Guo, Wenbo

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.18955 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2505.18955
SynFix: Dependency-aware program repair via RelationGraph analysis

`tang2025synfix` · Tang, Xunzhu; Gao, Jiechao; Xu, Jin; Sun, Tiezhu; Song, Yewei; Ezzini, Saad; Ou{\'e}draogo, Wendk{\^u}uni C; Klein, Jacques; Bissyand{\'e}, Tegawend{\'e} F

2025 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Graph-based Scholar
Code Graph Model (CGM): A Graph-Integrated Large Language Model for Repository-Level Software Engineering Tasks

`tao2025code` · Tao, Hongyuan; Zhang, Ying; Tang, Zhenhao; Peng, Hongen; Zhu, Xukun; Liu, Bingchang; Yang, Yingguang; Zhang, Ziyin; Xu, Zhaogui; Zhang, Haipeng; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16901 History-aware reasoning
Code History
Graph-based arXiv:2505.16901
Meta-RAG on Large Codebases Using Code Summarization

`tawosi2025meta` · Tawosi, Vali; Alamir, Salwa; Liu, Xiaomo; Veloso, Manuela

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.02611 Patching
Code
RAG-based arXiv:2508.02611
CoreThink: A Symbolic Reasoning Layer to reason over Long Horizon Tasks with LLMs

`vaghasiya2025corethink` · Vaghasiya, Jay; Ghugarkar, Omkar; Bhat, Vishvesh; Dholaria, Vipul; McAuley, Julian

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.00971 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2509.00971
Repeton: Structured Bug Repair with ReAct-Guided Patch-and-Test Cycles

`vinh2025repeton` · Vinh, Nguyen Phu; Hoang, Anh Chung; Ngo, Chris; Hy, Truong-Son

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.08173 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2506.08173
Aegis: An agent-based framework for bug reproduction from issue descriptions

`wang2025aegis` · Wang, Xinchen; Gao, Pengfei; Meng, Xiangxin; Peng, Chao; Hu, Ruida; Lin, Yun; Gao, Cuiyun

2025 Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric Scholar
Extracting Conceptual Knowledge to Locate Software Issues

`wang2025extracting` · Wang, Ying; Mao, Wenjun; Wang, Chong; Zhou, Zhenhao; Zhou, Yicheng; Zhao, Wenyun; Lou, Yiling; Peng, Xin

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.21427 Localization
Code
RAG-based arXiv:2509.21427
Improving Code Localization with Repository Memory

`wang2025improving` · Wang, Boshi; Xu, Weijian; Li, Yunsheng; Gao, Mei; Xie, Yujia; Sun, Huan; Chen, Dongdong

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.01003 Memory / experience
Code History
Graph-based arXiv:2510.01003
Mcts-refined cot: High-quality fine-tuning data for llm-based repository issue resolution

`wang2025mcts` · Wang, Yibo; Peng, Zhihao; Wang, Ying; Wei, Zhao; Yu, Hai; Zhu, Zhiliang

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12728 History-aware reasoning
Code History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2506.12728
A Practitioner's Guide to Multi-turn Agentic Reinforcement Learning

`wang2025practitioner` · Wang, Ruiyi; Ammanabrolu, Prithviraj

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.01132 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2510.01132
SeamlessFlow: A Trainer Agent Isolation RL Framework Achieving Bubble-Free Pipelines via Tag Scheduling

`wang2025seamlessflow` · Wang, Jinghui; Wang, Shaojie; Cui, Yinghan; Chen, Xuxing; Wang, Chao; Zhang, Xiaojiang; Zhang, Minglei; Zhang, Jiarong; Zhuang, Wenhao; Cao, Yuchen; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11553 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2508.11553
SWE-Dev: Building Software Engineering Agents with Training and Inference Scaling

`wang2025swe` · Wang, Haoran; Hou, Zhenyu; Wei, Yao; Tang, Jie; Dong, Yuxiao

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.07636 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2506.07636
Swe-rl: Advancing llm reasoning via reinforcement learning on open software evolution

`wei2025swe` · Wei, Yuxiang; Duchenne, Olivier; Copet, Jade; Carbonneaux, Quentin; Zhang, Lingming; Fried, Daniel; Synnaeve, Gabriel; Singh, Rishabh; Wang, Sida I

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.18449 History-aware reasoning
Code History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2502.18449
Toward training superintelligent software agents through self-play swe-rl

`wei2025toward` · Wei, Yuxiang; Sun, Zhiqing; McMilin, Emily; Gehring, Jonas; Zhang, David; Synnaeve, Gabriel; Fried, Daniel; Zhang, Lingming; Wang, Sida

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.18552 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2512.18552
Confucius Code Agent: Scalable Agent Scaffolding for Real-World Codebases

`wong2025confucius` · Wong, Sherman; Qi, Zhenting; Wang, Zhaodong; Hu, Nathan; Lin, Samuel; Ge, Jun; Gao, Erwin; Chen, Wenlin; Du, Yilun; Yu, Minlan; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.10398 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2512.10398
2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00031 Validation / testing
Arch Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2508.00031
Demystifying llm-based software engineering agents

`xia2025demystifying` · Xia, Chunqiu Steven; Deng, Yinlin; Dunn, Soren; Zhang, Lingming

2025 Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric Scholar
Live-SWE-agent: Can Software Engineering Agents Self-Evolve on the Fly?

`xia2025live` · Xia, Chunqiu Steven; Wang, Zhe; Yang, Yan; Wei, Yuxiang; Zhang, Lingming

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.13646 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2511.13646
Improving the efficiency of LLM agent systems through trajectory reduction

`xiao2025improving` · Xiao, Yuan-An; Gao, Pengfei; Peng, Chao; Xiong, Yingfei

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23586 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2509.23586
Swe-fixer: Training open-source llms for effective and efficient github issue resolution

`xie2025swe` · Xie, Chengxing; Li, Bowen; Gao, Chang; Du, He; Lam, Wai; Zou, Difan; Chen, Kai

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.05040 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2501.05040
Think-Search-Patch: A Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Framework for Repository-Level Code Repair

`xiong2025think` · Xiong, Bojian; Lei, Yikun; Liu, Xikai; Zhang, Shaowei; Zhu, Pengyun; Liu, Yan; Leng, Yongqi; Shi, Ling; Zhong, Meizhi; Zhang, Yurong; others

2025 Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track Benchmark / infrastructure
Code
Training-based / RL Scholar
Enhancing repository-level software repair via repository-aware knowledge graphs

`yang2025enhancing` · Yang, Boyang; Tian, Haoye; Ren, Jiadong; Jin, Shunfu; Liu, Yang; Liu, Feng; Le, Bach

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21710 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code History
Graph-based arXiv:2503.21710
KGCompass: Knowledge Graph Enhanced Repository-Level Software Repair

`yang2025kgcompass` · YANG, BOYANG; REN, JIADONG; JIN, SHUNFU; LIU, YANG; LIU, FENG; LE, BACH; TIAN, HAOYE

2025 N/A History-aware reasoning
Tool Code History
Graph-based Scholar
Kimi-dev: Agentless training as skill prior for swe-agents

`yang2025kimi` · Yang, Zonghan; Wang, Shengjie; Fu, Kelin; He, Wenyang; Xiong, Weimin; Liu, Yibo; Miao, Yibo; Gao, Bofei; Wang, Yejie; Ma, Yingwei; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23045 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2509.23045
Lingxi: Repository-Level Issue Resolution Framework Enhanced by Procedural Knowledge Guided Scaling

`yang2025lingxi` · Yang, Xu; Zhou, Jiayuan; Pacheco, Michael; Zhu, Wenhan; He, Pengfei; Wang, Shaowei; Liu, Kui; Pan, Ruiqi

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.11838 History-aware reasoning
Arch Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2510.11838
Swe-smith: Scaling data for software engineering agents

`yang2025swe` · Yang, John; Lieret, Kilian; Jimenez, Carlos E; Wettig, Alexander; Khandpur, Kabir; Zhang, Yanzhe; Hui, Binyuan; Press, Ofir; Schmidt, Ludwig; Yang, Diyi

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.21798 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2504.21798
Building Coding Agents via Entropy-Enhanced Multi-Turn Preference Optimization

`yu2025building` · Yu, Jiahao; Cheng, Zelei; Wu, Xian; Xing, Xinyu

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.12434 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2509.12434
Orcaloca: An llm agent framework for software issue localization

`yu2025orcaloca` · Yu, Zhongming; Zhang, Hejia; Zhao, Yujie; Huang, Hanxian; Yao, Matrix; Ding, Ke; Zhao, Jishen

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00350 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Graph-based arXiv:2502.00350
Utboost: Rigorous evaluation of coding agents on swe-bench

`yu2025utboost` · Yu, Boxi; Zhu, Yuxuan; He, Pinjia; Kang, Daniel

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.09289 Benchmark / infrastructure
Tool Code History
Tool-centric SWE-bench arXiv:2506.09289
Guided Search Strategies in Non-Serializable Environments with Applications to Software Engineering Agents

`zainullina2025guided` · Zainullina, Karina; Golubev, Alexander; Trofimova, Maria; Polezhaev, Sergei; Badertdinov, Ibragim; Litvintseva, Daria; Karasik, Simon; Fisin, Filipp; Skvortsov, Sergei; Nekrashevich, Maksim; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13652 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2505.13652
Satori-SWE: Evolutionary Test-Time Scaling for Sample-Efficient Software Engineering

`zeng2025satori` · Zeng, Guangtao; Shen, Maohao; Chen, Delin; Qi, Zhenting; Das, Subhro; Gutfreund, Dan; Cox, David; Wornell, Gregory; Lu, Wei; Hong, Zhang-Wei; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.23604 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2505.23604
Skywork-SWE: Unveiling Data Scaling Laws for Software Engineering in LLMs

`zeng2025skywork` · Zeng, Liang; Li, Yongcong; Xiao, Yuzhen; Li, Changshi; Liu, Chris Yuhao; Yan, Rui; Wei, Tianwen; He, Jujie; Song, Xuchen; Liu, Yang; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.19290 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2506.19290
cast: Enhancing code retrieval-augmented generation with structural chunking via abstract syntax tree

`zhang2025cast` · Zhang, Yilin; Zhao, Xinran; Wang, Zora Zhiruo; Yang, Chenyang; Wei, Jiayi; Wu, Tongshuang

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.15655 Benchmark / infrastructure
Code
RAG-based arXiv:2506.15655
Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents

`zhang2025darwin` · Zhang, Jenny; Hu, Shengran; Lu, Cong; Lange, Robert; Clune, Jeff

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.22954 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2505.22954
One Tool Is Enough: Reinforcement Learning for Repository-Level LLM Agents

`zhang2025one` · Zhang, Zhaoxi; Duan, Yitong; Zhang, Yanzhi; Xu, Yiming; Wang, Zhixiang; Liang, Kun; Li, Yang; Liang, Jiahui; Xia, Deguo; Huang, Jizhou; others

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.20957 Training / post-training
Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2512.20957
Sealign: Alignment training for software engineering agent

`zhang2025sealign` · Zhang, Kechi; Zhang, Huangzhao; Li, Ge; You, Jinliang; Li, Jia; Zhao, Yunfei; Jin, Zhi

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.18455 Training / post-training
Tool Memory
Graph-based arXiv:2503.18455
Tom-swe: User mental modeling for software engineering agents

`zhou2025tom` · Zhou, Xuhui; Chen, Valerie; Wang, Zora Zhiruo; Neubig, Graham; Sap, Maarten; Wang, Xingyao

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.21903 Validation / testing
Arch Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2510.21903
Training Versatile Coding Agents in Synthetic Environments

`zhu2025training` · Zhu, Yiqi; Gandhi, Apurva; Neubig, Graham

2025 arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12216 Training / post-training
Arch Tool Code Memory
Training-based / RL arXiv:2512.12216
Swe-search: Enhancing software agents with monte carlo tree search and iterative refinement

`antoniades2024swe` · Antoniades, Antonis; {\"O}rwall, Albert; Zhang, Kexun; Xie, Yuxi; Goyal, Anirudh; Wang, William

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.20285 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2410.20285
Masai: Modular architecture for software-engineering ai agents

`arora2024masai` · Arora, Daman; Sonwane, Atharv; Wadhwa, Nalin; Mehrotra, Abhav; Utpala, Saiteja; Bairi, Ramakrishna; Kanade, Aditya; Natarajan, Nagarajan

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11638 Architecture / constraint-aware
Tool Code
Multi-agent arXiv:2406.11638
Large language monkeys: Scaling inference compute with repeated sampling

`brown2024large` · Brown, Bradley; Juravsky, Jordan; Ehrlich, Ryan; Clark, Ronald; Le, Quoc V; R{\'e}, Christopher; Mirhoseini, Azalia

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.21787 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2407.21787
Coder: Issue resolving with multi-agent and task graphs

`chen2024coder` · Chen, Dong; Lin, Shaoxin; Zeng, Muhan; Zan, Daoguang; Wang, Jian-Gang; Cheshkov, Anton; Sun, Jun; Yu, Hao; Dong, Guoliang; Aliev, Artem; others

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01304 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Multi-agent arXiv:2406.01304
Exploring the Potential of Conversational Test Suite Based Program Repair on SWE-bench

`cheshkov2024exploring` · Cheshkov, Anton; Zadorozhny, Pavel; Levichev, Rodion; Maslov, Evgeny; Jaldin, Ronaldo Franco

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.04485 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric SWE-bench arXiv:2410.04485
SuperCoder2. 0: Technical Report on Exploring the feasibility of LLMs as Autonomous Programmer

`gautam2024supercoder2` · Gautam, Anmol; Kumar, Kishore; Jha, Adarsh; NS, Mukunda; Bhola, Ishaan

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11190 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric arXiv:2409.11190
Infant agent: A tool-integrated, logic-driven agent with cost-effective api usage

`lei2024infant` · Lei, Bin; Li, Yuchen; Zeng, Yiming; Ren, Tao; Luo, Yi; Shi, Tianyu; Gao, Zitian; Hu, Zeyu; Kang, Weitai; Chen, Qiuwu

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.01114 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2411.01114
Codetree: Agent-guided tree search for code generation with large language models

`li2024codetree` · Li, Jierui; Le, Hung; Zhou, Yingbo; Xiong, Caiming; Savarese, Silvio; Sahoo, Doyen

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.04329 Patching
Code
RAG-based arXiv:2411.04329
Llms as continuous learners: Improving the reproduction of defective code in software issues

`lin2024llms` · Lin, Yalan; Ma, Yingwei; Cao, Rongyu; Li, Binhua; Huang, Fei; Gu, Xiaodong; Li, Yongbin

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.13941 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2411.13941
Codexembed: A generalist embedding model family for multiligual and multi-task code retrieval

`liu2024codexembed` · Liu, Ye; Meng, Rui; Joty, Shafiq; Savarese, Silvio; Xiong, Caiming; Zhou, Yingbo; Yavuz, Semih

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12644 Benchmark / infrastructure
Code History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2411.12644
Codexgraph: Bridging large language models and code repositories via code graph databases

`liu2024codexgraph` · Liu, Xiangyan; Lan, Bo; Hu, Zhiyuan; Liu, Yang; Zhang, Zhicheng; Wang, Fei; Shieh, Michael; Zhou, Wenmeng

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.03910 Patching
Code
Graph-based arXiv:2408.03910
Marscode agent: Ai-native automated bug fixing

`liu2024marscode` · Liu, Yizhou; Gao, Pengfei; Wang, Xinchen; Liu, Jie; Shi, Yexuan; Zhang, Zhao; Peng, Chao

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00899 Validation / testing
Tool Code
Graph-based arXiv:2409.00899
Lingma swe-gpt: An open development-process-centric language model for automated software improvement

`ma2024lingma` · Ma, Yingwei; Cao, Rongyu; Cao, Yongchang; Zhang, Yue; Chen, Jue; Liu, Yibo; Liu, Yuchen; Li, Binhua; Huang, Fei; Li, Yongbin

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.00622 History-aware reasoning
Tool Code Memory History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2411.00622
Repository Structure-Aware Training Makes SLMs Better Issue Resolver

`ma2024repository` · Ma, Zexiong; An, Shengnan; Lin, Zeqi; Zou, Yanzhen; Xie, Bing

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.19031 History-aware reasoning
Code History
Training-based / RL arXiv:2412.19031
Repograph: Enhancing ai software engineering with repository-level code graph

`ouyang2024repograph` · Ouyang, Siru; Yu, Wenhao; Ma, Kaixin; Xiao, Zilin; Zhang, Zhihan; Jia, Mengzhao; Han, Jiawei; Zhang, Hongming; Yu, Dong

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.14684 Patching
Code
Graph-based arXiv:2410.14684
Training software engineering agents and verifiers with swe-gym

`pan2024training` · Pan, Jiayi; Wang, Xingyao; Neubig, Graham; Jaitly, Navdeep; Ji, Heng; Suhr, Alane; Zhang, Yizhe

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.21139 Benchmark / infrastructure
Tool Code Memory Stack
Training-based / RL Training environment arXiv:2412.21139
Hyperagent: Generalist software engineering agents to solve coding tasks at scale

`phan2024hyperagent` · Phan, Huy Nhat; Nguyen, Tien N; Nguyen, Phong X; Bui, Nghi DQ

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.16299 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2409.16299
Watson: A Cognitive Observability Framework for the Reasoning of LLM-Powered Agents

`rombaut2024watson` · Rombaut, Benjamin; Masoumzadeh, Sogol; Vasilevski, Kirill; Lin, Dayi; Hassan, Ahmed E

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.03455 Localization
Code Memory
Memory-based arXiv:2411.03455
CoRNStack: High-quality contrastive data for better code retrieval and reranking

`suresh2024cornstack` · Suresh, Tarun; Reddy, Revanth Gangi; Xu, Yifei; Nussbaum, Zach; Mulyar, Andriy; Duderstadt, Brandon; Ji, Heng

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.01007 Benchmark / infrastructure
Code
Training-based / RL arXiv:2412.01007
Magis: Llm-based multi-agent framework for github issue resolution

`tao2024magis` · Tao, Wei; Zhou, Yucheng; Wang, Yanlin; Zhang, Wenqiang; Zhang, Hongyu; Cheng, Yu

2024 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems History-aware reasoning
Tool Code History
Multi-agent Scholar
Openhands: An open platform for ai software developers as generalist agents

`wang2024openhands` · Wang, Xingyao; Li, Boxuan; Song, Yufan; Xu, Frank F; Tang, Xiangru; Zhuge, Mingchen; Pan, Jiayi; Song, Yueqi; Li, Bowen; Singh, Jaskirat; others

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16741 Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric arXiv:2407.16741
Swe-agent: Agent-computer interfaces enable automated software engineering

`yang2024swe` · Yang, John; Jimenez, Carlos E; Wettig, Alexander; Lieret, Kilian; Yao, Shunyu; Narasimhan, Karthik; Press, Ofir

2024 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Validation / testing
Tool Code Memory
Tool-centric Scholar
Autocoderover: Autonomous program improvement

`zhang2024autocoderover` · Zhang, Yuntong; Ruan, Haifeng; Fan, Zhiyu; Roychoudhury, Abhik

2024 Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis Validation / testing
Tool Code
Tool-centric Scholar
CodeV: Issue Resolving with Visual Data

`zhang2024codev` · Zhang, Linhao; Zan, Daoguang; Yang, Quanshun; Huang, Zhirong; Chen, Dong; Shen, Bo; Liu, Tianyu; Gong, Yongshun; Huang, Pengjie; Lu, Xudong; others

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17315 Patching
Code
Pipeline arXiv:2412.17315
Diversity empowers intelligence: Integrating expertise of software engineering agents

`zhang2024diversity` · Zhang, Kexun; Yao, Weiran; Liu, Zuxin; Feng, Yihao; Liu, Zhiwei; Murthy, Rithesh; Lan, Tian; Li, Lei; Lou, Renze; Xu, Jiacheng; others

2024 arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.07060 Validation / testing
Code Memory
Agentic arXiv:2408.07060

Compare Methods

Method Comparison Table

This table is designed for related-work comparison and baseline selection, so it foregrounds strategy differences rather than the full coding schema.

Paper Agent Type Main Knowledge Retrieval Style Feedback Loop Memory / History Benchmark / Setting Best Use Case
Swe-agent: Agent-computer interfaces enable automated software engineering Agentic runtime Tool, Code, Memory Active + tool-centric Strong Weak explicit memory Classic repository-level baseline
EXPEREPAIR: Dual-Memory Enhanced LLM-based Repository-Level Program Repair Memory-based repair Tool, Code, Memory Retrieval + memory Medium Strong experience memory Experience reuse
KGCompass: Knowledge Graph Enhanced Repository-Level Software Repair Graph-guided retrieval Tool, Code, History Structured historical retrieval Medium Strong history History-aware localization and repair
R2e-gym: Procedural environments and hybrid verifiers for scaling open-weights swe agents Training environment Tool, Code, Memory, History Tool-mediated Strong Medium Training environment Agent training infrastructure
ArkEval: Benchmarking and Evaluating Automated CodeRepair for ArkTS Benchmark / evaluation Tool, Code, Lang, History RAG + repo context Medium Weak ArkTS / HarmonyOS Language- and platform-specific evaluation
Agentic Rubrics as Contextual Verifiers for SWE Agents Verifier-centered Arch, Tool, Code Structured contextual retrieval Strong Constraint-aware Architecture / validation constraints

Focused Cross-Dimension Tables

Only the most action-oriented cross-dimension views are kept here. They answer concrete navigation and comparison questions instead of repeating every RQ matrix from the manuscript.

Source × Extraction Method

Source Rule-based Extraction Model-based Extraction Manual Extraction
Codebase 125
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge
Examples:
88
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge
Examples:
38
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge
Examples:
Dynamic Execution Results 101
Knowledge: Development Tool Knowledge, Existing Code Knowledge
Examples:
74
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge
Examples:
35
Knowledge: Development Tool Knowledge, Existing Code Knowledge
Examples:
Expert 42
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge
Examples:
30
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge
Examples:
35
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge
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Repository History 43
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Repository Evolution Knowledge
Examples:
31
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Repository Evolution Knowledge
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11
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Repository Evolution Knowledge
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Document 9
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge
Examples:
9
Knowledge: Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge
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7
Knowledge: Development Tool Knowledge, Existing Code Knowledge
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Stage × Dominant Knowledge

Stage Dominant Knowledge Representative Works Typical Artifacts
Localization Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge, Experiential Knowledge Suspicious files, functions, modules, or ranked locations.
Patch Generation Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge, Experiential Knowledge Candidate patches or edit plans.
Patch Validation Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge, Experiential Knowledge Test results, rubric decisions, and patch-selection signals.
Model Training Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge, Experiential Knowledge Training trajectories, preference data, or reward signals.
Reproduction Test Generation Existing Code Knowledge, Development Tool Knowledge, Experiential Knowledge Failing tests, reproduction scripts, or issue reproductions.
Task Planning Development Tool Knowledge, Existing Code Knowledge, Experiential Knowledge Plans, decomposition traces, or retrieval strategies.
Environment Building Development Tool Knowledge, Existing Code Knowledge, Experiential Knowledge Sandbox setup, test environment, executable workspace.

These lightweight views are retained as advanced analytics. They summarize temporal emphasis and recurring knowledge pairings, but the primary workflow for finding concrete papers remains the master table and method-comparison sections above.

Temporal Trend

Year Included Papers
2024 25
2025 92
2026 16

Latest-Half Knowledge Frequency

Knowledge Type Count
Existing Code Knowledge 65
Development Tool Knowledge 49
Experiential Knowledge 36
Repository Evolution Knowledge 23
Design Architecture Knowledge 4
Technology Stack Knowledge 1

Pairwise Knowledge Combinations

Knowledge A Knowledge B Count
Development Tool Knowledge Existing Code Knowledge 101
Existing Code Knowledge Experiential Knowledge 65
Development Tool Knowledge Experiential Knowledge 62
Existing Code Knowledge Repository Evolution Knowledge 43
Development Tool Knowledge Repository Evolution Knowledge 31
Experiential Knowledge Repository Evolution Knowledge 21
Design Architecture Knowledge Existing Code Knowledge 13
Design Architecture Knowledge Development Tool Knowledge 11
Design Architecture Knowledge Experiential Knowledge 6
Development Tool Knowledge Technology Stack Knowledge 4
Existing Code Knowledge Technology Stack Knowledge 4
Design Architecture Knowledge Repository Evolution Knowledge 4
Experiential Knowledge Technology Stack Knowledge 3
Existing Code Knowledge Programming Language Knowledge 3
Development Tool Knowledge Programming Language Knowledge 2
Programming Language Knowledge Repository Evolution Knowledge 2
Repository Evolution Knowledge Technology Stack Knowledge 2
Design Architecture Knowledge Domain-specific Knowledge 1
Design Architecture Knowledge Technology Stack Knowledge 1
Development Tool Knowledge Domain-specific Knowledge 1
Domain-specific Knowledge Existing Code Knowledge 1
Domain-specific Knowledge Experiential Knowledge 1
Domain-specific Knowledge Technology Stack Knowledge 1
Programming Language Knowledge Technology Stack Knowledge 1
Experiential Knowledge Programming Language Knowledge 1

Resources

Benchmark Index

Benchmark Scope Language Task Execution Good For
BeyondSWE: Can Current Code Agent Survive Beyond Single-Repo Bug Fixing? Cross-repository issue resolution Multi / domain-heavy Benchmark Mixed Domain and stack constraints
ArkEval: Benchmarking and Evaluating Automated CodeRepair for ArkTS ArkTS repair ArkTS Benchmark Yes Low-resource language evaluation
R2e-gym: Procedural environments and hybrid verifiers for scaling open-weights swe agents Training environment Multi Gym / environment Yes Procedural training and verification
Training software engineering agents and verifiers with swe-gym SWE-Gym Repo-level Training + evaluation Yes Agent training baselines
SWE-Factory: Your Automated Factory for Issue Resolution Training Data and Evaluation Benchmarks Data / benchmark factory Repo-level Infrastructure Yes Benchmark construction

Tool / Framework Index

Tool / Framework Type Main Stage Open Style Strength
Swe-agent: Agent-computer interfaces enable automated software engineering Agent runtime Full pipeline Paper-linked Classic agent-computer interface baseline
Openhands: An open platform for ai software developers as generalist agents Generalist platform Full pipeline Paper-linked Sandbox-based software agent runtime
Autocoderover: Autonomous program improvement Repair agent Localization + patching Paper-linked Repository exploration and autonomous improvement
KGCompass: Knowledge Graph Enhanced Repository-Level Software Repair Graph retrieval system Localization + patching Paper-linked History-aware repository retrieval

Knowledge Graph / Memory Index

Resource Category Emphasis
KGCompass: Knowledge Graph Enhanced Repository-Level Software Repair Repository history graph History + code alignment
CoSIL: Software Issue Localization via LLM-Driven Code Repository Graph Searching Repository graph search Localization via structure-aware navigation
Codexgraph: Bridging large language models and code repositories via code graph databases Code graph database Graph-backed repository reasoning
EXPEREPAIR: Dual-Memory Enhanced LLM-based Repository-Level Program Repair Experience memory Dual-memory repair guidance
Reasoningbank: Scaling agent self-evolving with reasoning memory Reasoning memory Reusable strategy bank

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