Coupling Planning with Episodic Memory in LLM Agents for Software Issue Resolution

arXiv:2608.06811 · cs.SE, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-07 · Read on arXiv

Jiahao Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Yu Huang

cs.SE, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-07

Updated: 2026-08-10

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Planner — 38× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 34× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 18× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Harness — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Localization — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hysteresis — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• State Management — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hyperparameters — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Learning Representations — 2× in this paper
• International Conference on Software Engineering — 2× in this paper
• Papers — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reward Hacking — 2× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Overfitting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaffold — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Structured Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Sycophancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Task Decomposition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transactions on Machine Learning Research — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents
• Agents in Software Engineering: Survey, Landscape, and Vision
• SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering
• AutoCodeRover: Autonomous Program Improvement
• SWE-Exp: Experience-Driven Software Issue Resolution
• EXPEREPAIR: Dual-Memory Enhanced LLM-based Repository-Level Program Repair
• Confucius Code Agent: Scalable Agent Scaffolding for Real-World Codebases
• RAP: Retrieval-Augmented Planning with Contextual Memory for Multimodal LLM Agents
• Structurally Aligned Subtask-Level Memory for Software Engineering Agents
• CRITIC: Large Language Models Can Self-Correct with Tool-Interactive Critiquing
• Defining and Characterizing Reward Hacking
• Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models
• Agentic Uncertainty Reveals Agentic Overconfidence
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention
• TerminalWorld: Benchmarking Agents on Real-World Terminal Tasks
• Agentless: Demystifying LLM-based Software Engineering Agents
• SpecRover: Code Intent Extraction via LLMs
• AdaPlanner: Adaptive Planning from Feedback with Language Models
• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems

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