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On the Effectiveness of Context Compression for Repository-Level Tasks: An Empirical Investigation

Chaozheng Wang, Cuiyun Gao, Jia Feng, Ruiqi Wang, Xiaoyuan Xie, Yingwei Ma, Zhanyue Qin

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keywords context compressionrepository-level code taskscode completioncode generationlarge language modelsempirical evaluationcontinuous latent vectorsinference efficiency
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Context compression improves repository-level code tasks by filtering noise, with continuous latent vector methods outperforming full context at 4x ratios.

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Repository-level code intelligence requires models to handle long multi-file inputs that often bury key details in noise, exceed context windows, and raise latency. The paper conducts the first broad empirical test of eight compression techniques grouped into discrete token sequences, continuous latent vectors, and visual tokens. It applies them to code completion and generation benchmarks and measures both accuracy and speed. Results indicate that compression succeeds overall, and at moderate ratios the continuous vector approaches actually raise scores by removing irrelevant material rather than losing signal. Efficiency improves across all methods, with some reaching half the latency of uncompressed inputs while approaching the cost of running without repository context.

Core claim

Context compression is effective for repository-level code intelligence tasks. Continuous latent vector methods at 4x compression surpass full-context performance by up to 28.3 percent in BLEU score on code completion and generation, demonstrating that they filter noise rather than merely truncate. All three paradigms reduce inference cost, and visual plus text-based approaches achieve up to 50 percent end-to-end latency reduction at high ratios, nearing the expense of inference without repository context.

What carries the argument

Three paradigms of context compression—discrete token sequences, continuous latent vectors, and visual tokens—applied to condense long multi-file repository inputs for language models performing code completion and generation.

If this is right

  • Continuous latent vector compression can raise task accuracy instead of lowering it by removing noise from repository context.
  • All compression paradigms lower inference costs relative to uncompressed full-context inputs.
  • Visual and text-based methods can reduce end-to-end latency by up to 50 percent at high ratios while maintaining or exceeding full-context accuracy.
  • Compressed inputs can approach the cost of running without any repository context while preserving or improving quality on the tested tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The noise-filtering benefit observed here could apply to other repository-scale code activities such as bug localization or refactoring if similar irrelevant context patterns appear.
  • Alternative evaluation measures beyond BLEU, such as execution success or human preference, would clarify whether the reported gains matter in actual development workflows.
  • Hybrid systems that combine compression with selective retrieval might produce still larger efficiency or accuracy gains on very large repositories.

Load-bearing premise

That the chosen code completion and generation benchmarks together with BLEU scores adequately reflect real repository-level task difficulty and usefulness.

What would settle it

Evaluating the same compression methods on fresh repository tasks or with human developer judgments where higher BLEU scores do not translate into measurable improvements in task success or reduced developer effort.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.13725 by Chaozheng Wang, Cuiyun Gao, Jia Feng, Ruiqi Wang, Xiaoyuan Xie, Yingwei Ma, Zhanyue Qin.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the unified context compression framework (top) and the three compression paradigms (bottom) . [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Edit Similarity (%) on code completion across compression ratios for QC-3B (T2V, T2T) and QV-3B (T2I). Dashed lines [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Edit Similarity (%) on code generation across compression ratios for QC-3B (T2V, T2T) and QV-3B (T2I). Dashed lines [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: T2T (LLMLingua) compression applied to a representative Java source file. Left: original content. Middle and right: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_4.png] view at source ↗
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Repository-level code intelligence tasks require large language models (LLMs) to process long, multi-file contexts. Such inputs introduce three challenges: crucial context can be obscured by noise, truncated due to limited windows, and increased inference latency. Context compression mitigates these risks by condensing inputs. While studied in NLP, its applicability to code tasks remains largely unexplored. We present the first systematic empirical study of context compression for repository-level code intelligence, organizing eight methods into three paradigms: discrete token sequences, continuous latent vectors, and visual tokens. We evaluate them on code completion and generation, measuring performance and efficiency. Results show context compression is effective: at 4x compression, continuous latent vector methods surpass full-context performance by up to 28.3% in BLEU score, indicating they filter noise rather than just truncating. On efficiency, all paradigms reduce inference cost. Both visual and text-based compression achieve up to 50% reduction in end-to-end latency at high ratios, approaching the cost of inference without repository context. These findings establish context compression as a viable approach and provide guidance for paradigm selection.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents the first systematic empirical study of context compression for repository-level code intelligence tasks. It organizes eight methods into three paradigms (discrete token sequences, continuous latent vectors, and visual tokens) and evaluates them on code completion and generation benchmarks. Key results indicate that at 4x compression, continuous latent vector methods exceed full-context performance by up to 28.3% BLEU score (interpreted as noise filtering rather than truncation) while all paradigms reduce end-to-end latency by up to 50%.

Significance. If the results hold, this work is significant as the first systematic application of context compression to repository-level code tasks, providing evidence that compression can improve performance beyond efficiency gains and offering guidance on paradigm selection. Credit is due for the clear organization into paradigms and the joint reporting of performance (BLEU) and efficiency metrics.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that the 28.3% BLEU improvement at 4x compression demonstrates noise filtering (rather than mere truncation) is load-bearing for the central effectiveness conclusion, yet it relies solely on n-gram overlap without supporting analyses such as ablation on noise levels, information retention checks, or comparisons to random truncation baselines.
  2. [Results and Evaluation sections] Results and Evaluation sections: BLEU is used as the primary metric for code completion and generation, but it does not measure functional correctness, compilation, test passage, or semantic equivalence—metrics more relevant to repository-level tasks with cross-file dependencies. This weakens the interpretation that higher BLEU equates to better task usefulness or noise removal.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Experimental Setup] The manuscript would benefit from explicit details on benchmark selection criteria, data splits, and any statistical tests used to support the reported gains.
  2. Figure and table captions could more clearly label the three paradigms and compression ratios for easier cross-reference with the text.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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Thank you for your thorough review of our manuscript. We appreciate the positive assessment of the work's significance and the constructive major comments. We address each point below and have made revisions to strengthen the paper where appropriate.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] The claim that the 28.3% BLEU improvement at 4x compression demonstrates noise filtering (rather than mere truncation) is load-bearing for the central effectiveness conclusion, yet it relies solely on n-gram overlap without supporting analyses such as ablation on noise levels, information retention checks, or comparisons to random truncation baselines.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. Our interpretation that the methods filter noise stems from the empirical result that compressed contexts achieve higher BLEU scores than the full context at 4x compression. This outperformance would be unlikely under simple truncation, as removing context should not improve n-gram overlap with the target. To address the request for additional support, we have added in the revised manuscript a baseline comparison with random truncation at equivalent compression rates, showing that our compression methods significantly outperform random selection. This provides evidence that the improvement is due to selective retention rather than truncation. We have also tempered the language in the abstract to present this as an indication rather than a definitive demonstration. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Results and Evaluation sections] BLEU is used as the primary metric for code completion and generation, but it does not measure functional correctness, compilation, test passage, or semantic equivalence—metrics more relevant to repository-level tasks with cross-file dependencies. This weakens the interpretation that higher BLEU equates to better task usefulness or noise removal.

    Authors: We agree that BLEU has well-known limitations and does not directly evaluate functional correctness or semantic equivalence, which are indeed critical for repository-level code tasks. Our use of BLEU follows common practice in code generation research to enable quantitative comparison of generation quality via n-gram overlap. In the revised manuscript, we have added a dedicated paragraph in the Evaluation section discussing the choice of metrics, their limitations, and the implications for interpreting our results on noise filtering and task performance. We also highlight in the conclusion that future investigations should incorporate execution-based metrics to assess practical utility more comprehensively. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical evaluation

full rationale

The paper is an empirical comparison of eight context compression methods across three paradigms on code completion and generation benchmarks. It reports direct measurements of BLEU scores and latency at varying compression ratios, with no derivation chain, first-principles predictions, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. All claims rest on observable experimental outcomes rather than any reduction to inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard assumptions of empirical ML evaluation (representative benchmarks, BLEU as proxy for code quality) rather than new axioms or invented entities. No free parameters are introduced in the abstract.

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