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        "Despite improving repository-context retrieval, existing methods typically provide context as task-level support, without explicitly identifying the critical tokens that require fine-grained repository context during generation.",
        "During the autoregressive generation process of LLMs, errors often concentrate at a small number of decisive positions: once such tokens are generated incorrectly, subsequent code may follow an incorrect semantic path and eventually lead to functional failure.",
        "We refer to these positions as \"critical tokens\"."
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        "arXiv:2609.01601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The repository-level code generation task requires synthesizing code that satisfies task requirements while remaining consistent with the target repository context.",
        "Experimental results show that ACToR consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving relative improvements of 8.4% on RepoExec and 15.4% on CoderEval.",
        "Computer Science > Software Engineering [Submitted on 1 Sep 2026] Title:Adaptive Critical Token-Aware Retrieval for Repository-Level Code Generation View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The repository-level code generation task requires synthesizing code t..."
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        "Since real-world repositories often exceed the input length limits of LLMs, existing approaches commonly adopt retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to provide repository-specific context.",
        "During the autoregressive generation process of LLMs, errors often concentrate at a small number of decisive positions: once such tokens are generated incorrectly, subsequent code may follow an incorrect semantic path and eventually lead to functional failure.",
        "Beyond performance gains, we systematically quantify the impact of critical tokens, revealing their central role in major generation failures and highlighting the necessity of targeted retrieval strategies."
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