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New benchmark and guardrail for LLM-powered runtime error healing in software

Researchers have developed HealBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of Large Language Models (LLMs) in automatically healing runtime errors within real-world software repositories. This system includes HealGuard, a safety mechanism that uses static and dynamic taint analysis to ensure that code generated by LLMs does not compromise protected operations. In evaluations, the best-performing LLM setting successfully resumed execution in 38.11% of instances and passed target tests in 28.68% of cases, though HealGuard flagged a significant portion of these as potentially unsafe. AI

IMPACT This research advances the safety and reliability of LLMs for automated code repair, potentially enabling more robust software development tools.

RANK_REASON The item is a research paper introducing a new benchmark and safety mechanism for LLM-based software error healing. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New benchmark and guardrail for LLM-powered runtime error healing in software

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Gou Tan, Pengfei Chen, Zhensu Sun, Jieke Shi, Junkai Chen, Ting Zhang, Weifeng Sun, Junda He, Shuai Liang, Chuanfu Zhang, Lwin Khin Shar, David Lo ·

    Trustworthy Runtime Error Healing in Real-World Repositories: A Benchmark and Guardrail

    arXiv:2609.39086v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Runtime error healing lets a crashed program continue by generating code that repairs its live runtime state. Recent work shows that LLMs can generate such healing code, but it is evaluated only on small competition programs, and …