Chronos Enables Code Agents to Reason over Software Evolution

arXiv:2610.11578 · cs.SE, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Benchmark — 28× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distillation — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Graph Construction — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• International Conference on Software Engineering — 2× in this paper
• Procedural Knowledge — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Coding — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Search — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Code Graph Model — 1× in this paper
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaboration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Test-time Scaling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• SWE-Exp: Experience-Driven Software Issue Resolution
• SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks?
• Your Code Agent Can Grow Alongside You with Structured Memory
• From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization
• Trae Agent: An LLM-based Agent for Software Engineering with Test-time Scaling
• Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
• MigrationBench: Repository-Level Code Migration Benchmark from Java 8
• GraphCoder: Enhancing Repository-Level Code Completion via Code Context Graph-based Retrieval and Language Model
• G-RAG: Knowledge Expansion in Material Science
• EXPEREPAIR: Dual-Memory Enhanced LLM-based Repository-Level Program Repair
• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
• SWE-PolyBench: A multi-language benchmark for repository level evaluation of coding agents
• HAFix: History-Augmented Large Language Models for Bug Fixing
• CodeTaste: Can LLMs Generate Human-Level Code Refactorings?
• Improving Code Localization with Repository Memory
• Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
• MemGovern: Enhancing Code Agents through Learning from Governed Human Experiences
• SWE-RL: Advancing LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning on Open Software Evolution
• Lingxi: Repository-Level Issue Resolution Framework Enhanced by Procedural Knowledge Guided Scaling
• FeatureBench: Benchmarking Agentic Coding for Complex Feature Development

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