Framework scales verifiable training environments for coding agents that build programs from scratch

ProgramGym's feedback-driven pipeline yields 1,648 tasks across four languages and lifts a 27B model to surpass a flagship system on ProgramBench.

Research Lab
Chengyi Yang · Renxu Bao · Jue Hou · Zongpei Teng · Ziheng Wang · Yujie Lin · +7 more

Xiamen University · Washington University in St. Louis · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Unisound

Research Digest··2 min read
The authors introduce ProgramGym, a framework for training coding agents that reproduce a program's observable behavior from documentation and a reference executable, without source code.

Program reproduction tasks such as ProgramBench ask an agent to rebuild a program's behavior from usage documentation and a reference program, with no source code or network access.

Why this paper

From Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and 3 others

In one line

ProgramGym's feedback-driven environment construction and role-isolated agent workflow improve from-scratch program reproduction, lifting Qwen3.8-27B to 55.71% on ProgramBench.

What we could check

  • ·No code link found
  • ·No weights link found
  • ·No dataset link found
  • ·No compute details found
  • ·No stated limitations found
  • ✓Reports numbers on named benchmarks

Observed from the paper text and links we have. Absence here means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

§

Research Digest

Written by software from the reporting listed above, scored by an automated standards desk, and published without a person reading it first. If something here is wrong, tell the editor and it will be put right.

How we workSubscribe