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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in automated code generation but typically excel only in simpler tasks such as generating standalone code units. Real-world software development, however, often involves complex code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Kechi Zhang , Jia Li , Ge Li , Xianjie Shi , Zhi Jin

Coding agents are rapidly changing the landscape of software development, moving from inline completion to autonomous systems that edit repositories, open pull requests, respond to issues, and run scheduled or webhook triggered routines…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Nghi D. Q. Bui , Georgios Evangelopoulos

In this work, we study the issue of reward hacking on the response length, a challenge emerging in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) on LLMs. A well-formatted, verbose but less helpful response from the LLMs can often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Lichang Chen , Chen Zhu , Davit Soselia , Jiuhai Chen , Tianyi Zhou , Tom Goldstein , Heng Huang , Mohammad Shoeybi , Bryan Catanzaro

AI agents could accelerate scientific discovery by automating hypothesis formation, experiment design, coding, execution, and analysis, yet existing benchmarks probe narrow skills in simplified settings. To address this gap, we introduce…

Code generation has emerged as one of AI's highest-impact use cases, yet existing benchmarks measure isolated tasks rather than the complete "zero-to-one" process of building a working application from scratch. We introduce Vibe Code Bench,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hung Tran , Langston Nashold , Rayan Krishnan , Antoine Bigeard , Alex Gu

A common paradigm to improve the performance of large language models is optimizing for a reward model. Reward models assign a numerical score to an LLM's output that indicates, for example, how likely it is to align with user preferences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Hadi Khalaf , Claudio Mayrink Verdun , Alex Oesterling , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Flavio du Pin Calmon

Agent Skills are structured packages of procedural knowledge that augment LLM agents at inference time. Despite rapid adoption, there is no standard way to measure whether they actually help. We present SkillsBench, a benchmark of 86 tasks…

The tendency to find and exploit "shortcuts" to complete tasks poses significant risks for reliable assessment and deployment of large language models (LLMs). For example, an LLM agent with access to unit tests may delete failing tests…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Ziqian Zhong , Aditi Raghunathan , Nicholas Carlini

Large language models (LLMs) can often generate functionally correct code, but their ability to produce efficient implementations for performance-critical systems tasks remains limited. Existing code benchmarks mainly emphasize correctness…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Huihao Jing , Wenbin Hu , Haochen Shi , Hanyu Yang , Sirui Zhang , Shaojin Chen , Haoran Li , Yangqiu Song

Code generation models can help improve many common software tasks ranging from code completion to defect prediction. Most of the existing benchmarks for code generation LLMs focus on code authoring or code completion. Surprisingly, there…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Kush Jain , Gabriel Synnaeve , Baptiste Rozière

While large language models have significantly accelerated scientific code generation, comprehensively evaluating the generated code remains a major challenge. Traditional benchmarks reduce evaluation to test-case matching, an approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hong Zhang , Barry Smith , Satish Balay , Le Chen , Murat Keceli , Lois Curfman McInnes , Junchao Zhang

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong potential in code generation, yet their effectiveness in quantum computing remains underexplored. This paper benchmarks LLMs for PennyLane-based quantum code…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Abdul Basit , Minghao Shao , Muhammad Haider Asif , Nouhaila Innan , Muhammad Kashif , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

Recent coding agents can generate complete codebases from simple prompts, yet existing evaluations focus on issue-level bug fixing and lag behind end-to-end development. We introduce ProjDevBench, an end-to-end benchmark that provides…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Pengrui Lu , Shiqi Zhang , Yunzhong Hou , Lyumanshan Ye , Chaoyi Huang , Zixi Chen , Ji Zeng , Hantao Jiang , Pengfei Liu , Yiwei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Existing Agent benchmarks suffer from two critical limitations: high environment interaction overhead (up to 41\% of total evaluation time) and imbalanced task horizon and difficulty distributions that make aggregate scores unreliable. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wang Yang , Chaoda Song , Xinpeng Li , Debargha Ganguly , Chuang Ma , Shouren Wang , Zhihao Dou , Yuli Zhou , Vipin Chaudhary , Xiaotian Han

The evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation relies heavily on the quality and robustness of test cases. However, existing benchmarks often lack coverage for subtle corner cases, allowing incorrect solutions to pass.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jingwei Shi , Xinxiang Yin , Jing Huang , Jinman Zhao , Shengyu Tao

Existing web agent benchmarks have largely converged on short, single-site tasks that frontier models are approaching saturation on. However, real world web use consists of long-horizon, multi-site workflows. Common web navigation tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Lawrence Keunho Jang , Jing Yu Koh , Daniel Fried , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

The application of large language models (LLMs) in the field of coding is evolving rapidly: from code assistants, to autonomous coding agents, and then to generating complete projects through natural language. Early LLM code benchmarks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kai Xu , YiWei Mao , XinYi Guan , ZiLong Feng

Long-horizon code generation requires sustained context and adaptive expertise across domains. Current multi-agent systems use static workflows that cannot adapt when runtime analysis reveals unanticipated complexity. We propose AgentSpawn,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Igor Costa

Test-time scaling has become a powerful way to improve large language models. However, existing methods are best suited to short, bounded outputs that can be directly compared, ranked or refined. Long-horizon coding agents violate this…

Long-term memory is fundamental for personalized agents capable of accumulating knowledge, reasoning over user experiences, and adapting across time. However, existing memory benchmarks primarily target declarative memory, specifically…