arXiv AI

BuildBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Compiling Real-World Open-Source Software

BuildBench introduces a realistic benchmark for evaluating large language model agents on the task of compiling open‑source software (OSS). It includes diverse OSS projects that lack clear build instructions, have undocumented dependencies, and may require source patching or script modification. The authors also present OSS‑BUILD‑AGENT, a baseline LLM‑based agent that retrieves build instructions effectively and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on the benchmark.

arXiv AI
Oct 1

E2E-SWE: Benchmarking LLMs on Building Working Codebases from Scratch

E2E-SWE is a benchmark that tests large language models’ ability to create complete, functional software repositories from scratch. It includes 186 tasks across 11 programming languages, each requiring an agent to build an installable project based solely on a natural‑language specification and an empty workspace, while passing a hidden test suite. The benchmark was crafted by software engineers and LLMs, then refined through iterative verification by autonomous agents to ensure clarity and solvability.

By Hantian Ding, Chloe Bi, Jiacheng Zhu, John Yang, Matt Deitke, Pengcheng Yin, Zijian Wang, Rui Hou
arXiv AI
Oct 12

ProgramGym: Scaling Training Environments for Long-Horizon Program Reproduction Agents

ProgramGym introduces a scalable framework for training long-horizon program reproduction agents, comprising Program-Env and Program-Agent components. Program-Env builds verifiable training environments from repositories via a feedback loop that repairs sandbox builds and improves black-box tests, yielding 1,648 environments across C, C++, Go, and Rust. Program-Agent employs a role-isolated workflow of analysis, implementation, and review with revision management, boosting performance on ProgramBench and raising Qwen3.8-27B’s accuracy from 34.87% to 42.84% and surpassing flagship models with fine-tuning.

By Chengyi Yang, Renxu Bao, Jue Hou, Zongpei Teng, Ziheng Wang, Yujie Lin, Chengsong Huang, Junnan Zhu, Delai Qiu, Yining Wang, Shengping Liu, Fei Long, Jinsong Su
arXiv AI
1d ago

Multi-step SWE: Can Coding Agents Keep Building on Their Own Code Over Long Horizons?

The paper introduces Multi-step SWE, a benchmark consisting of 69 software engineering tasks that require a coding agent to perform 5–15 sequential, multi-hour engineering requests on a single codebase. Each step builds on the code produced in the previous step, making early design decisions and errors propagate throughout the chain. The benchmark covers four engineering work families, nine programming languages, and includes both from-scratch builds and existing open-source projects, with each step verified against a source of truth. Across nine state‑of‑the‑art models, the best achieves only an 18.5% solve rate, and 38 tasks remain unsolved by any model.

By Xiangkai Zeng, Zheng Liu, Zihao Lin
arXiv AI
Jul 14

SWE-MERA: A Dynamic Benchmark for Agenticly Evaluating Large Language Models on Software Engineering Tasks

arXiv:2507. 11059v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering has revealed critical limitations in existing benchmarks, particularly the widely used SWE-bench dataset.

By Pavel Adamenko, Mikhail Ivanov, Aidar Valeev, Rodion Levichev, Pavel Zadorozhny, Ivan Lopatin, Dmitry Babaev, Alena Fenogenova, Valentin Malykh