DeepRepoQA: Code Repository Question Answering with Deep Agent Exploration

arXiv:2608.24221 · cs.SE, cs.CL, cs.PL · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.CL, cs.PL

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Code: https://github.com/peng-weihan/DeepRepoQA

Project page: https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter

Terminology

• RAG — 21× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Action Space — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Failure Modes — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Monte-Carlo Tree Search — 3× in this paper
• Redundancy — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Framework — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Multi-hop Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Approaches — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Evaluation Dimensions — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Information Gain — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Software Engineering — 1× in this paper
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• State Management — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Structural Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Structured Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• CoReQA: Uncovering Potentials of Language Models in Code Repository Question Answering
• SWE-Exp: Experience-Driven Software Issue Resolution
• CS1QA: A Dataset for Assisting Code-based Question Answering in an Introductory Programming Course
• Alibaba LingmaAgent: Improving Automated Issue Resolution via Comprehensive Repository Exploration
• EvoC2Rust: A Skeleton-guided Framework for Project-Level C-to-Rust Translation
• ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
• SWE-Bench ProMax: Benchmarking Agents on Large-Scale Multilingual Code Refactoring
• RepoFusion: Training Code Models to Understand Your Repository

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