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Bowen Zhu

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preprint2026arXiv

LARGER: Lexically Anchored Repository Graph Exploration and Retrieval

Repository-level coding agents must first localize the files and symbols relevant to a task; failures at this stage can cascade across downstream objectives ranging from patch generation to test writing and codebase question answering. Existing agents navigate repositories primarily through lexical search, often missing structural relations such as imports, call chains, type hierarchies, and code-test links. Graph-based retrieval can recover such dependencies, but existing approaches often require separate graph tools or traversal stages that fragment the agent's interaction loop. We formalize repository context localization as Lexically Anchored Structural Localization, where success depends on turning lexical matches into high-precision structural entry points and exposing the most useful confidence-filtered local neighborhoods within the agent's existing search loop. We introduce LARGER (Lexically Anchored Repository Graph Exploration and Retrieval), a lexically anchored active-set retrieval framework that starts from lexical matches, aligns them to graph anchors, and performs confidence-filtered local expansion within the agent's existing search loop. LARGER integrates directly into existing CLI coding agents without requiring external graph databases or specialized graph interfaces. Across four benchmarks spanning localization, test generation, and codebase understanding, LARGER improves file-level Acc@5 on LocBench by +13.9 points with tuned hyperparameters and still gains +11.8 points with fixed hyperparameters over the strongest baseline, while delivering consistent gains on MuLocBench, SWE-Atlas Test Writing, and SWE-Atlas Codebase QA.

preprint2026arXiv

SkillLens: Adaptive Multi-Granularity Skill Reuse for Cost-Efficient LLM Agents

Skill libraries have become a practical way for LLM agents to reuse procedural experience across tasks. However, existing systems typically treat skills as flat, single-resolution prompt blocks. This creates a tension between relevance and cost: injecting coarse skills can introduce irrelevant or misleading context, while rewriting entire skills is expensive and often unnecessary. We propose SkillLens, a hierarchical skill-evolution framework that organizes skills into a four-layer graph of policies, strategies, procedures, and primitives, and retrieves them at mixed granularity. Given a task, SkillLens first retrieves semantically relevant skill seeds, expands them through degree-corrected random walk over the skill graph, and then uses a verifier to decide whether each visited unit should be accepted, decomposed, rewritten, or skipped. This enables the agent to reuse compatible subskills directly while adapting only locally mismatched components. To improve the system over time, SkillLens further refines multi-granularity skills and verifier in order to improve its routing decisions. We provide theoretical analysis showing that mixed-granularity adaptation incurs sublinear cost under sparse mismatch assumptions and that the evolutionary update rule monotonically improves the validation objective until a local optimum. Across MuLocbench and ALFWorld, SkillLens consistently improves over strong skill-based baselines, achieving up to a 6.31 percentage-point Acc@1 gain for bug localization and raising agent success rate from 45.00% to 51.31%.

preprint2022arXiv

Implicit Regularization Effects of the Sobolev Norms in Image Processing

In this paper, we propose to use the general $L^2$-based Sobolev norms, i.e., $H^s$ norms where $s\in \mathbb{R}$, to measure the data discrepancy due to noise in image processing tasks that are formulated as optimization problems. As opposed to a popular trend of developing regularization methods, we emphasize that an implicit regularization effect can be achieved through the class of Sobolev norms as the data-fitting term. Specifically, we analyze that the implicit regularization comes from the weights that the $H^s$ norm imposes on different frequency contents of an underlying image. We further analyze the underlying noise assumption of using the Sobolev norm as the data-fitting term from a Bayesian perspective, build the connections with the Sobolev gradient-based methods and discuss the preconditioning effects on the convergence rate of the gradient descent algorithm, leading to a better understanding of functional spaces/metrics and the optimization process involved in image processing. Numerical results in full waveform inversion, image denoising and deblurring demonstrate the implicit regularization effects.

preprint2022arXiv

Vision Transformer for Contrastive Clustering

Vision Transformer (ViT) has shown its advantages over the convolutional neural network (CNN) with its ability to capture global long-range dependencies for visual representation learning. Besides ViT, contrastive learning is another popular research topic recently. While previous contrastive learning works are mostly based on CNNs, some recent studies have attempted to combine ViT and contrastive learning for enhanced self-supervised learning. Despite the considerable progress, these combinations of ViT and contrastive learning mostly focus on the instance-level contrastiveness, which often overlook the global contrastiveness and also lack the ability to directly learn the clustering result (e.g., for images). In view of this, this paper presents a novel deep clustering approach termed Vision Transformer for Contrastive Clustering (VTCC), which for the first time, to our knowledge, unifies the Transformer and the contrastive learning for the image clustering task. Specifically, with two random augmentations performed on each image, we utilize a ViT encoder with two weight-sharing views as the backbone. To remedy the potential instability of the ViT, we incorporate a convolutional stem to split each augmented sample into a sequence of patches, which uses multiple stacked small convolutions instead of a big convolution in the patch projection layer. By learning the feature representations for the sequences of patches via the backbone, an instance projector and a cluster projector are further utilized to perform the instance-level contrastive learning and the global clustering structure learning, respectively. Experiments on eight image datasets demonstrate the stability (during the training-from-scratch) and the superiority (in clustering performance) of our VTCC approach over the state-of-the-art.