ACQUIRE: QA-Driven Framework Improves LLM-Based Code Repair via Pre-Repair Knowledge Acquisition

Jul 14, 2026

A new framework called ACQUIRE is proposed to enhance LLM-based code repair by explicitly acquiring repository knowledge before generating patches. The system uses a Questioner-Answerer collaboration to identify and fill knowledge gaps, resulting in more accurate repairs. On the SWE-bench Verified benchmark, ACQUIRE improves Pass@1 accuracy by up to 4.4 percentage points compared to prior pre-repair methods, with only modest overhead.

Why it matters: This approach addresses a major source of factual errors in LLM coding agents by systematically improving their understanding of code repositories before attempting repairs.

Full story at: arXiv Software Engineering ↗