Wei Liu, Chao Peng, Pengfei Gao, Aofan Liu, Wei Zhang, Haiyan Zhao, Zhi Jin
Software Engineering Empirical Research Radar
GraphLocator: Graph-guided Causal Reasoning for Issue Localization
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FSE 2026
Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods
Structured Fault Localization; Explainable Debugging Chains
Abstract / Summary
GraphLocator builds a causal issue graph whose vertices bind discovered sub-issues to code entities and whose edges encode causal dependencies. Across Python and Java datasets, the official FSE program reports gains in function-level recall and precision, with the graph improving downstream issue resolution.
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