Training coding agents to locate, vary, and verify boosts repair reliability.

Weighted supervised fine-tuning and mutation-based reinforcement learning improve pass@8 from 46.7% to 60.7% on SWE-bench Verified.

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Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin · Myeongsoo Kim · Kangrui Ruan · Shweta Garg · Varun Kumar · Murali Krishna Ramanathan

Stanford University · AWS AI Labs

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The authors diagnose three teachable behaviors—location diversity, edit diversity, and verification—that determine the success of autonomous coding agents.

The authors first conduct a diagnostic study on SWE-bench Verified to identify critical behaviors for repair success.

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From AWS AI Labs and Stanford University

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Autonomous coding agents can learn fault location, edit variation, and patch verification, lifting held-out SWE-bench pass@1 from 31.9% to 43.0%.

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