Dongjian Ma, Silin Chen, Yufei Yang, Yulin Shi, Yanfu Yan, Xiaodong Gu
Software Engineering Empirical Research Radar
LLM Agents Can See Code Repositories
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arXiv 2026
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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