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Verification is critical for improving agents: it provides the reward signal for Reinforcement Learning and enables inference-time gains through Test-Time Scaling (TTS). Despite its importance, verification in software engineering (SWE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Mohit Raghavendra , Anisha Gunjal , Bing Liu , Yunzhong He

Can large language model agents develop industry-level mobile applications? We introduce \textbf{SWE-Bench Mobile}, a benchmark for evaluating coding agents on realistic software engineering tasks derived from a production iOS codebase.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Muxin Tian , Zhe Wang , Blair Yang , Zhenwei Tang , Kunlun Zhu , Honghua Dong , Hanchen Li , Xinni Xie , Guangjing Wang , Jiaxuan You

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred the development of coding agents for real-world code generation. As a widely used benchmark for evaluating the code generation capabilities of these agents, SWE-Bench uses real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Boxi Yu , Yuxuan Zhu , Pinjia He , Daniel Kang

We introduce Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Adaptive Verifiable Environments (RLVE), an approach using verifiable environments that procedurally generate problems and provide algorithmically verifiable rewards, to scale up RL for language…

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong performance on self-contained programming tasks. However, they still struggle with repository-level software engineering (SWE), which demands (1) deep codebase navigation with effective context…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kang He , Kaushik Roy

Recent advances in coding agents have made them capable of planning, editing, running, and testing complex code bases. Despite their growing ability in coding tasks, these systems still struggle to infer and track user intent, especially…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xuhui Zhou , Valerie Chen , Zora Zhiruo Wang , Graham Neubig , Maarten Sap , Xingyao Wang

With the advent of AI agents, automatic scientific discovery has become a tenable goal. Many recent works scaffold agentic systems that can perform machine learning research, but don't offer a principled way to train such agents -- and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ziyang Cai , Harkirat Behl

We introduce SWE-ZERO to SWE-HERO, a two-stage SFT recipe that achieves state-of-the-art results on SWE-bench by distilling open-weight frontier LLMs. Our pipeline replaces resource-heavy dependencies with an evolutionary refinement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Nikolai Ludwig , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Somshubra Majumdar , Boris Ginsburg

Software engineering (SWE) has recently emerged as a crucial testbed for next-generation LLM agents, demanding inherent capabilities in two critical dimensions: sustained iterative problem-solving (e.g., >50 interaction rounds) and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Liang Zeng , Yongcong Li , Yuzhen Xiao , Changshi Li , Chris Yuhao Liu , Rui Yan , Tianwen Wei , Jujie He , Xuchen Song , Yang Liu , Yahui Zhou

Training capable software engineering (SWE) agents demands large-scale, executable, and verifiable environments that provide dynamic feedback loops for iterative code editing, test execution, and solution refinement. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dayuan Fu , Shenyu Wu , Yunze Wu , Zerui Peng , Yaxing Huang , Jie Sun , Ji Zeng , Mohan Jiang , Lin Zhang , Yukun Li , Jiarui Hu , Liming Liu , Jinlong Hou , Pengfei Liu

Automating real-world software engineering tasks remains challenging for large language model (LLM)-based agents due to the need for long-horizon reasoning over large, evolving codebases and making consistent decisions across interdependent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mahir Labib Dihan , Md Ashrafur Rahman Khan

Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs), hereafter LLM agents, leverage external tools to solve diverse tasks and interface with the real world. However, current training practices largely rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Weihua Du , Hailei Gong , Zhan Ling , Kang Liu , Lingfeng Shen , Xuesong Yao , Yufei Xu , Dingyuan Shi , Yiming Yang , Jiecao Chen

Research on applications of reinforcement learning (RL) to large language models has mostly been focused on single-turn problems, such as mathematical reasoning or single-shot code generation. While these problems can be viewed as…

Autonomous systems for software engineering are now capable of fixing bugs and developing features. These systems are commonly evaluated on SWE-bench (Jimenez et al., 2024a), which assesses their ability to solve software issues from GitHub…

We introduce SWE-Bench Pro, a substantially more challenging benchmark that builds upon the best practices of SWE-BENCH [25], but is explicitly designed to capture realistic, complex, enterprise-level problems beyond the scope of SWE-BENCH.…

Agents aspire to eliminate the need for task-specific prompt crafting through autonomous reason-act-observe loops. Still, they are commonly instructed to follow a task-specific plan for guidance, e.g., to resolve software issues following…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shuyang Liu , Saman Dehghan , Jatin Ganhotra , Martin Hirzel , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the automation of software development tasks, including code synthesis, program repair, and test generation. More recently, researchers and industry…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Yinlin Deng , Soren Dunn , Lingming Zhang

Auto-regressive LLM-based software engineering (SWE) agents, henceforth SWE agents, have made tremendous progress (>60% on SWE-Bench Verified) on real-world coding challenges including GitHub issue resolution. SWE agents use a combination…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Timothy Bula , Saurabh Pujar , Luca Buratti , Mihaela Bornea , Avirup Sil

AI agents are increasingly used to diagnose and mitigate failures in production systems, known as agentic Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Current SRE benchmarks are limited to oversimplistic SRE tasks and are unfortunately hard to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jackson Clark , Yiming Su , Saad Mohammad Rafid Pial , Yifang Tian , Lily Gniedziejko , Hans-Arno Jacobsen , Yinfang Chen , Tianyin Xu

Large language model (LLM)-powered agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in automating software engineering tasks such as static bug fixing. However, in the real world, the development of mature software is typically predicated on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jialong Chen , Xander Xu , Hu Wei , Chuan Chen , Bing Zhao