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<p>Debugging software remains a labor-intensive and time-consuming process despite advances in testing and verification. Learning-based automated program repair (APR) has shown promise in reducing the effort of manually fixing bugs. However, existing techniques face several challenges, including language-dependent strategies, limited bug context utilization, and difficulties in handling bugs that span multiple locations in the code. This paper presents MultiMend, a multilingual learning-based APR approach designed to improve repair performance through language-independent context augmentation and multi-hunk patch generation. MultiMend fine-tunes a pre-trained code language model to generate bug-fixing patches. It embeds source code lines and applies retrieval-augmented generation to augment the usual function-based buggy context with relevant lines during patch generation. The approach also systematically constructs patches for multi-hunk bugs to extend the capabilities of single-hunk models and reduce the needed patch validations. We evaluate MultiMend on six benchmarks with 5,501 bugs covering four programming languages and compare it with state-of-the-art methods. Results show that MultiMend achieves competitive effectiveness and efficiency, fixing 2,227 bugs, of which 1,545 are identical to the developer’s patch, and 121 are for multi-hunk bugs. Both context augmentation and multi-hunk patch generation contribute positively to these results. Overall, MultiMend’s contributions are promising and offer practical and effective techniques to enhance APR performance for real-world software maintenance.</p>

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MultiMend: multilingual program repair with context augmentation and multi-hunk patch generation

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    2026年3月24日

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  • Reza Gharibi,
  • Mohammad Hadi Sadreddini,
  • Seyed Mostafa Fakhrahmad

摘要

Debugging software remains a labor-intensive and time-consuming process despite advances in testing and verification. Learning-based automated program repair (APR) has shown promise in reducing the effort of manually fixing bugs. However, existing techniques face several challenges, including language-dependent strategies, limited bug context utilization, and difficulties in handling bugs that span multiple locations in the code. This paper presents MultiMend, a multilingual learning-based APR approach designed to improve repair performance through language-independent context augmentation and multi-hunk patch generation. MultiMend fine-tunes a pre-trained code language model to generate bug-fixing patches. It embeds source code lines and applies retrieval-augmented generation to augment the usual function-based buggy context with relevant lines during patch generation. The approach also systematically constructs patches for multi-hunk bugs to extend the capabilities of single-hunk models and reduce the needed patch validations. We evaluate MultiMend on six benchmarks with 5,501 bugs covering four programming languages and compare it with state-of-the-art methods. Results show that MultiMend achieves competitive effectiveness and efficiency, fixing 2,227 bugs, of which 1,545 are identical to the developer’s patch, and 121 are for multi-hunk bugs. Both context augmentation and multi-hunk patch generation contribute positively to these results. Overall, MultiMend’s contributions are promising and offer practical and effective techniques to enhance APR performance for real-world software maintenance.