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RAGas: Retrieval Augmented Gas Optimization for Smart Contracts with Continuous Knowledge Integration

Apr 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering · 1 citation · 69 references
Computer Science

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This work systematically analyzed the grammatical and semantic features that lead to excessive Gas consumption and proposes RAGas, a three-stage retrieval enhancement generation framework that utilizes large language models to locate and automatically fix Gas inefficiency issues.

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Ethereum has gradually become an infrastructure in key areas such as finance, healthcare, and supply chain. When its smart contracts are executed, Gas fees increase with the growth of computational complexity. Therefore, reducing code with high Gas overhead while maintaining functional equivalence is of great significance to deployment costs. Currently available tools rely on fixed rule sets and cannot autonomously adapt to the dynamically evolving patterns of Gas consumption. To this end, we systematically analyzed the grammatical and semantic features that lead to excessive Gas consumption and constructed 12 fine-grained High Gas Consumption (HGC) patterns and knowledge bases covering 6 major categories. Based on this, we propose RAGas, a three-stage retrieval enhancement generation framework that utilizes large language models to locate and automatically fix Gas inefficiency issues. The experimental results show that RAGas can reduce Gas usage by up to 11.2% in real world deployed contracts.

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