The repository-level code generation task requires synthesizing code that satisfies task requirements while remaining consistent with the target repository context. Since real-world repositories often exceed the input length limits of LLMs, existing approaches commonly adopt retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to provide repository-specific context. Despite improving repository-context retrieval, existing methods typically provide context as task-level support, without explicitly identifying the critical tokens that require fine-grained repository context during generation. During the autoregressive generation process of LLMs, errors often concentrate at a small number of decisive positions: once such tokens are generated incorrectly, subsequent code may follow an incorrect semantic path and eventually lead to functional failure. We refer to these positions as"critical tokens". In this paper, we propose ACToR, an adaptive critical token-aware retrieval framework for repository-level code generation. ACToR identifies critical tokens during generation and triggers targeted retrieval on demand to provide repository context at these decisive positions. In addition, we design a position-aware weighting method for dense retrievers to prioritize context that is more informative for generation. We evaluate ACToR on two representative repository-level benchmarks, RepoExec and CoderEval. Experimental results show that ACToR consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving relative improvements of 8.4% on RepoExec and 15.4% on CoderEval. Beyond performance gains, we systematically quantify the impact of critical tokens, revealing their central role in major generation failures and highlighting the necessity of targeted retrieval strategies. We provide the code and data at https://github.com/DeepSoftwareAnalytics/ACToR.
Kefeng Duan, Dewu Zheng, Yanlin Wang et al.· 0 citations
In real-world software development, code review typically involves iterative interactions between developers and reviewers to improve software quality, making the process costly and time-consuming. Although recent work explores large language models (LLMs) for automated code review, most approaches oversimplify code review into a single-round, static decision task, which fails to capture the multi-round interactive nature and the complex problem-solving processes inherent in realistic review scenarios. To bridge this gap, we introduce MCR-Bench, the first defect state-aware benchmark designed for realistic multi-round code review. MCR-Bench covers five commonly-used programming languages and consists of 2,269 real-world multi-round code review tasks, each of which is annotated with fine-grained defect information and cross-round state labels. Each task in MCR-Bench is equipped with fine-grained defect metadata (e.g., description, type, severity) alongside dynamic state annotations, capturing the complete evolutionary trajectory of a defect throughout the multi-round process. We obtain several findings through extensive experiments on MCR-Bench with mainstream LLMs. (1) Limited overall capability: experiments reveal that mainstream LLMs exhibit limited overall performance in defect detection and defect lifecycle state tracking, with performance degrading significantly as the number of interaction rounds increases; (2) Defect-sensitive performance: LLMs'performance varies substantially across different defect types and severity levels, with semantically complex or low-salience defects being significantly more likely to be missed; (3) Underlying Failure Mechanisms: our in-depth error analysis dissects the distinct drivers of false positives and false negatives, revealing critical weaknesses such as cross-round temporal misalignment and inadequate long-range memory.
De-Wu Zheng, Yan-Lin Wang, Xi-Wen Wang et al.· 0 citations
PhoenixRepair is a multi-agent framework that systematically explores multiple candidate edit locations and performs iterative reflection and refinement on patch generation, thereby expanding the search space of repair strategies and achieves higher fault localization accuracy than existing approaches.
Tian-Yue Jiang, Yan-Lin Wang, Xin He et al.· arXiv.org· 2 citations
RepoReasoner is introduced, a benchmark for evaluating repository-level code reasoning that assesses two complementary abilities: Output Prediction, which measures fine-grained, stateful execution reasoning across files, and Call Chain Prediction, which evaluates high-level architectural dependency understanding under noisy context.
Yanlin Wang, Suiquan Wang, Yanlin Wang et al.· Proceedings of the ACM on So...· 2 citations
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