Runtime milestones improve credit assignment for long-horizon software engineering agents

SWE-MILE uses repository navigation and test-state changes to supervise individual actions while verification runs asynchronously in a sandbox.

Chinese Tech
Chaoqun Cui · Hao Zhou · Meiqi Chen · Fandong Meng · Wenji Mao

MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Tencent Inc., China

Research Digest··2 min read
Cui et al.

The authors defined two runtime potentials: navigation potential measures exposure to task-relevant files, while verification potential measures alignment between the repository’s current test state and the desired outcome.

Why this paper

From MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and 2 others

In one line

Asynchronous potential-induced milestone credit assignment improves long-horizon software engineering agent performance by deriving process supervision from workflow runtime signals.

What we could check

  • ·No code link found
  • ·No weights link found
  • ·No dataset link found
  • ·No compute details found
  • ·No stated limitations found
  • ·No benchmark numbers found

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.