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NINJA: A Navigator-Inspector Joint Architecture for Context-Efficient Issue Localization
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摘要
Recent advances in agent-based methods have demonstrated strong promise for issue localization, a critical prerequisite for software issue resolution. However, most existing agent-based methods rely on a single agent with a growing context, where long-context accumulation compresses the effective reasoning space. Meanwhile, the flat exploration structure hinders the balance between file-level breadth and function-level depth. To address these limitations, we propose NINJA, a hierarchical Navigator-Inspector Joint Architecture for context-efficient issue localization. NINJA decomposes repository exploration into global navigation and local inspection: the navigator maintains the global search state, performs file-level search, and dispatches selected entry files, while inspectors independently conduct function-level exploration around the assigned files in separate contexts. Through multi-round interactions, inspectors return suspicious locations as feedback, and the navigator updates the global state to decide whether to continue exploration or finalize localization. This hierarchical design balances file-level breadth with function-level depth, while independent inspector contexts prevent local exploration traces from accumulating in a single growing context. To further strengthen both global coordination and local exploration, we introduce a two-stage agentic fine-tuning strategy. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks and LLM backbones show that NINJA consistently outperforms competitive baselines. Notably, after fine-tuning, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct surpasses the strong closed-source Claude-Haiku-4.5 model. Our code is available at https://github.com/wantbook-book/NINJA.
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NINJA: A Navigator-Inspector Joint Architecture for Context-Efficient Issue Localization
Recent advances in agent-based methods have demonstrated strong promise for issue localization, a critical prerequisite for software issue resolution. However, most existing agent-based methods rely on a single agent with a growing context, where long-context accumulation compresses the effective reasoning space. Meanwhile, the flat exploration structure hinders the balance between file-level breadth and function-level depth. To address these limitations, we propose NINJA, a hierarchical Navigator-Inspector Joint Architecture for context-efficient issue localization. NINJA decomposes repository exploration into global navigation and local inspection: the navigator maintains the global search state, performs file-level search, and dispatches selected entry files, while inspectors independently conduct function-level exploration around the assigned files in separate contexts. Through multi-round interactions, inspectors return suspicious locations as feedback, and the navigator updates the global state to decide whether to continue exploration or finalize localization. This hierarchical design balances file-level breadth with function-level depth, while independent inspector contexts prevent local exploration traces from accumulating in a single growing context. To further strengthen both global coordination and local exploration, we introduce a two-stage agentic fine-tuning strategy. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks and LLM backbones show that NINJA consistently outperforms competitive baselines. Notably, after fine-tuning, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct surpasses the strong closed-source Claude-Haiku-4.5 model. Our code is available at https://github.com/wantbook-book/NINJA.
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