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Francesco Dente

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#small language model Book Oct 2026

Who Should Own the Loop? Harness Decomposition for Small-Model Repository Repair

The results show that harness-managed control flow can substantially improve the effectiveness of the smallest models and suggest that small models can be useful for repository repair when responsibilities are divided across explicit stages that can be independently assigned to the component best suited to each.

Francesco Dente, Dario Satriani, Donatello Santoro et al. · 0 citations

#artificial intelligence May 2026

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

This work highlights that jointly satisfying functional and structural requirements remains a key open challenge for coding agents, and reveals a phenomenon of constraint decay: as structural requirements accumulate, agent performance exhibits a substantial decline.

Francesco Dente, Dario Satriani, Paolo Papotti · arXiv.org · 5 citations