FSE 2025
Mon 23 - Fri 27 June 2025 Trondheim, Norway
Mon 23 Jun 2025 14:00 - 14:10 at Cosmos Hall - LLM for SE 1 Chair(s): Chao Peng

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in recent years has realized many applications in various domains. Being trained with a huge of amount of data coming from various sources, LLMs can be deployed to solve different tasks, including those in Software Engineering (SE). Though they have been widely adopted, the potential of using LLMs cooperatively has not been thoroughly investigated. In this paper, we proposed Metagente as a novel approach to amplify the synergy of various LLMs. Metagente is a Multi-Agent framework based on a series of LLMs to self-optimize the system through evaluation, feedback, and cooperation among specialized agents. Such a framework creates an environment where multiple agents iteratively refine and optimize prompts from various perspectives. The results of these explorations are then reviewed and aggregated by a teacher agent. To study its performance, we evaluated Metagente with an SE task, i.e., summarization of README.MD files, and compared it with three well-established baselines, i.e., GitSum, LLaMA-2, and GPT-4o. The results show that our proposed approach works efficiently and effectively, consuming a small amount of data for fine-tuning but still getting a high accuracy, thus substantially outperforming the baselines. The performance gain compared to GitSum, the most relevant benchmark, ranges from 27.63% to 60.43%. More importantly, compared to using only one LLM, Metagente boots up the accuracy to multiple folds.

Mon 23 Jun

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14:00 - 15:20
14:00
10m
Talk
Teamwork makes the dream work: LLMs-Based Agents for GitHub README.MD Summarization
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Duc S. H. Nguyen Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Bach G. Truong Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Phuong T. Nguyen University of L’Aquila, Juri Di Rocco University of L'Aquila, Davide Di Ruscio University of L'Aquila
Pre-print
14:10
20m
Talk
A Knowledge Enhanced Large Language Model for Bug Localization
Research Papers
Yue Li Nanjing University, Bohan Liu Nanjing University, Ting Zhang Singapore Management University, Zhiqi Wang Nanjing University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Lanxin Yang Nanjing University, Jun Lyu Nanjing University, He Zhang Nanjing University
DOI
14:30
10m
Talk
A Tool for In-depth Analysis of Code Execution Reasoning of Large Language Models
Demonstrations
Changshu Liu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pre-print Media Attached
14:40
20m
Talk
TickIt: Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated Ticket Escalation
Industry Papers
Fengrui Liu ByteDance, Xiao He Bytedance, Tieying Zhang ByteDance, Jianjun Chen Bytedance, Yi Li Nanyang Technological University, Lihua Yi Bytedance, Haipeng Zhang Bytedance, Gang Wu Bytedance, Rui Shi Bytedance
15:00
20m
Talk
Natural Language Outlines for Code: Literate Programming in the LLM Era
Industry Papers
Kensen Shi Google DeepMind, Deniz Altinbuken Google, Saswat Anand Google, Mihai Christodorescu Google, Katja Grünwedel Google, Alexa Koenings Google, Sai Naidu Google, Anurag Pathak Google, Marc Rasi Google, Fredde Ribeiro Google, Brandon Ruffin Google, Siddhant Sanyam Google, Maxim Tabachnyk Google, Sara Toth Google, Roy Tu Google, Tobias Welp Google, Pengcheng Yin Google, Manzil Zaheer Google, Satish Chandra Google, Inc, Charles Sutton Google Research

Information for Participants
Mon 23 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:20 at Cosmos Hall - LLM for SE 1 Chair(s): Chao Peng
Info for room Cosmos Hall:

This is the main event hall of Clarion Hotel, which will be used to host keynote talks and other plenary sessions. The FSE and ISSTA banquets will also happen in this room.

The room is just in front of the registration desk, on the other side of the main conference area. The large doors with numbers “1” and “2” provide access to the Cosmos Hall.