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Agentic systems are modern software systems: they consist of orchestrated modules, expose interfaces, and are deployed in software pipelines. Unlike conventional programs, their execution, i.e., trajectories, is inherently stochastic and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shuyang Liu , Yang Chen , Rahul Krishna , Saurabh Sinha , Jatin Ganhotra , Reyhan Jabbarvand

Significant advancements have been made in the capabilities of code large language models, leading to their rapid adoption and application across a wide range of domains. However, their further advancements are often constrained by the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Xifeng Yao , Dongyu Lang , Wu Zhang , Xintong Guo , Huarui Xie , Yinhao Ni , Ping Liu , Guang Shen , Yi Bai , Dandan Tu , Changzheng Zhang

Current code-agent benchmarks primarily evaluate localized issue resolution within a single target repository, leaving under-tested many software engineering tasks that require external knowledge or broader repository-level changes. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Guoxin Chen , Fanzhe Meng , Jiale Zhao , Minghao Li , Daixuan Cheng , Huatong Song , Jie Chen , Yuzhi Lin , Hui Chen , Xin Zhao , Ruihua Song , Chang Liu , Cheng Chen , Kai Jia , Ji-Rong Wen

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

Resolving issues on code repositories is an important part of software engineering. Various recent systems automatically resolve issues using large language models and agents, often with impressive performance. Unfortunately, most of these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jatin Ganhotra , Sami Serhan , Antonio Abu Nassar , Avraham Shinnar , Ziv Nevo , Martin Hirzel

Automated environment configuration is a critical bottleneck in scaling software engineering (SWE) automation. To provide a reliable evaluation standard for this task, we present Multi-Docker-Eval benchmark. It includes 40 real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Kelin Fu , Tianyu Liu , Zeyu Shang , Yingwei Ma , Jian Yang , Jiaheng Liu , Kaigui Bian

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…

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

Large language models (LLMs) are expected to be trained to act as agents in various real-world environments, but this process relies on rich and varied tool-interaction sandboxes. However, access to real systems is often restricted;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Xiaoshuai Song , Haofei Chang , Guanting Dong , Yutao Zhu , Ji-Rong Wen , Zhicheng Dou

In this paper, we introduce SWE-QA, a text and code corpus aimed at benchmarking multi-hop code comprehension, addressing the gap between simplified evaluation tasks and the complex reasoning required in real-world software development.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Laïla Elkoussy , Julien Perez

Mastering terminal environments requires language agents capable of multi-step planning, feedback-grounded execution, and dynamic state adaptation. However, training such agents is currently bottlenecked by a reliance on scraped external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaoxuan Peng , Kaiqi Zhang , Xinyu Lu , Boxi Cao , Yaojie Lu , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

We present SwingArena, a competitive evaluation framework for Large Language Models (LLMs) that closely mirrors real-world software development workflows. Unlike traditional static benchmarks, SwingArena models the collaborative process of…

Agents are now used widely in the process of software development, but building production-ready software engineering agents is a complex task. Deploying software agents effectively requires flexibility in implementation and…

Synthetic data offers a scalable solution for vision-language pre-training, yet current state-of-the-art methods typically rely on scaling up a single generative backbone, which introduces generator-specific spectral biases and limits…

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Realistic long-horizon productivity work is strongly conditioned on user-specific computer environments, where much of the work context is stored and organized through directory structures and content-rich artifacts. To scale synthetic data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Tao Ge , Baolin Peng , Hao Cheng , Jianfeng Gao

To survive and thrive in complex environments, humans have evolved sophisticated self-improvement mechanisms through environment exploration, hierarchical abstraction of experiences into reuseable skills, and collaborative construction of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Boyuan Zheng , Michael Y. Fatemi , Xiaolong Jin , Zora Zhiruo Wang , Apurva Gandhi , Yueqi Song , Yu Gu , Jayanth Srinivasa , Gaowen Liu , Graham Neubig , Yu Su

In the synthesis problem, we are given a specification, and we automatically generate a system that satisfies the specification in all environments. We introduce and study {\em synthesis with guided environments} (SGE, for short), where the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Orna Kupferman , Ofer Leshkowitz

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive promise in code generation, yet their progress remains limited by the shortage of large-scale datasets that are both diverse and well-aligned with human reasoning. Most existing resources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Amal Abed , Ivan Lukic , Jörg K. H. Franke , Frank Hutter

Language model (LM) agents are increasingly being used to automate complicated tasks in digital environments. Just as humans benefit from powerful software applications, such as integrated development environments, for complex tasks like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-13 John Yang , Carlos E. Jimenez , Alexander Wettig , Kilian Lieret , Shunyu Yao , Karthik Narasimhan , Ofir Press

Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive coding capabilities, their ability to autonomously build production-scale software from explicit specifications remains an open question. We introduce SWE-AGI, an…