SpIDER: Spatially Informed Dense Embedding Retrieval for Software Issue Localization

arXiv:2512.16956 · cs.SE, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-12-18 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-12-18

Updated: 2026-08-31

Code: https://github.com/aorwall/moatless-tools

Terminology

• Accuracy — 61× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Graph Construction — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Model — 6× in this paper
• Embeddings — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Agentic Approaches — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Downstream Tasks — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Kernel Density Estimate — 2× in this paper
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Structural Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Domain Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Heterogeneous Graph — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Mean Reciprocal Rank — 1× in this paper
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Resource Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• GraphCodeBERT: Pre-training Code Representations with Data Flow
• SweRank: Software Issue Localization with Code Ranking
• Agentless: Demystifying LLM-based Software Engineering Agents
• SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering
• Multi-SWE-bench: A Multilingual Benchmark for Issue Resolving

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