Copiloting the Copilots for Automated Program Repair (opens in new tab)

Automated program repair (APR) seeks to reduce the manual bug-fixing effort of developers by automatically synthesizing patches given the original buggy code.9 Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) empower researchers to directly leverage their power for APR.11,19,21 LLMs not only achieve impressive performance on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks,3 but they are also shown to be reliable copilots in assisting developers with various coding tasks.2,14 The reason is tha...