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LLM Agents Can See Code Repositories

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Authors

Dongjian Ma, Silin Chen, Yufei Yang, Yulin Shi, Yanfu Yan, Xiaodong Gu

Venue / Year

arXiv 2026

Topics

Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; Program Comprehension

Abstract / Summary

This study tests visual repository representations for multimodal coding agents. Vision-only interaction hurts accuracy and cost, while supplementing text tools with repository-structure graphs preserves or improves issue-resolution accuracy and reduces input-token use by up to 26%, especially during fault localization.

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