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SWE-Prime: Fewer Trajectories, Better Performance

SWE-Prime introduces a two-stage supervised fine-tuning data selection process for large language models tackling software issues. The first stage filters entire trajectories by quality and representativeness, while the second stage selects meaningful semantic segments based on contribution, learnability, and risk. Experiments on SWE-Bench Pro and Verified demonstrate that training on just 10% of trajectories chosen by SWE-Prime surpasses full-dataset training, achieving up to 12.2% and 24.2% performance gains.

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Aug 27

SWE-Prime: Fewer Trajectories, Better Performance

SWE-Prime introduces a two‑stage, multi‑granularity supervised fine‑tuning (SFT) data selection process for large language models tackling real‑world software problems. The first stage filters entire trajectories based on process quality, result quality, and representativeness, while the second stage evaluates semantic segments for contribution, learnability, and risk, keeping all segments in context but only penalizing selected ones during training. Experiments on SWE‑Bench Pro and Verified demonstrate that training on just 10% of trajectories chosen by SWE‑Prime outperforms full‑dataset training, achieving up to 12.2% and 24.2% relative gains.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 19

MetaCurate: Evolving Curation Filters for High-Quality Agentic Coding Data

MetaCurate is a training‑free framework that automatically evolves curation filters for agentic coding data by using pairwise large language model judgments to refine its rules, rubric, and aggregation policy. Starting from no initial filter, it discovers a strategy that scores trajectories independently, requiring pairwise comparisons only during the search phase. Experiments on an uncurated trajectory pool and the Nemotron v3 SWE dataset show that MetaCurate achieves the highest mean SWE‑Verified score compared to random selection, hand‑authored filtering, and a training‑loop baseline, while incurring lower search costs.

By Donghoon Kim, Seunghyuk Oh, Kevin Galim, Minseo Kim, Minjae Lee, Younghyun Kim, Wooseok Seo, Hyung Il Koo, Wonjun Kang
arXiv AI
Oct 12

Quality, Not Just Outcome: A Structural Scoring Framework for Selecting Coding-Agent Trajectories for Supervised Fine-Tuning

The paper introduces TQS, a Trajectory Quality Score that evaluates coding-agent interaction trajectories based on structural signals such as information focus, intent–action alignment, and policy dynamics, rather than just final outcomes. TQS operates in linear time without requiring an LLM judge and is applied to 155,144 successful trajectories from a public corpus. Fine‑tuning agents on trajectories ranked highest by TQS consistently outperforms models trained on random or low‑ranked subsets on the SWE‑Bench‑Verified benchmark, demonstrating the value of process‑level quality filtering.

By Sida Li, Yuanxin Liu, Shicheng Li, Linli Yao, Xu Sun, Haoli Bai, Xiaohui Li
arXiv AI
Oct 12

SWE-Critix: Post-Training Generalist Verifiers for Assessing Coding-Agent Trajectories

SWE-Critix is a post‑training pipeline that creates generalist verifiers for coding‑agent trajectories. It uses supervised fine‑tuning followed by reinforcement learning to train 30B models on CodeForge‑Preview data, enabling the verifier to predict completion labels and generate natural‑language explanations. The approach raises classification accuracy from 57% to 78% on a held‑out test set.

By Jiajun Hu, Chun Yong Chong
arXiv AI
Sep 3

UniToolCall: Unifying Tool-Use Representation, Data, and Evaluation for LLM Agents

UniToolCall introduces a unified framework for tool-use in large language model agents, standardizing toolset construction, dataset generation, and evaluation. The framework aggregates over 22,000 tools and creates a hybrid training corpus of more than 390,000 instances by combining ten public datasets with synthetically generated, structurally controlled trajectories. It models diverse interaction patterns—single‑hop vs. multi‑hop, single‑turn vs. multi‑turn, serial vs. parallel execution—and adds an Anchor Linkage mechanism to enforce cross‑turn dependencies, while converting seven public benchmarks into a common Query–Action–Observation–Answer format for fine‑grained evaluation.

By Yijuan Liang, Xinghao Chen, Yifan Ge, Ziyi Wu, Hao Wu, Changyu Zeng, Wei Xing, Xiaoyu Shen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Strategy Accumulation and Guided Execution for Automated LLM Fine-Tuning

The paper introduces Strategy Accumulation and Guided Execution (SAGE), a two-stage framework that makes automated fine-tuning of large language models cumulative. In the first stage, a multi-agent pipeline uses Monte Carlo Tree Search to explore training strategies while a Distillation Agent records task-specific insights and cross-task confidence scores into a structured repository. In the second stage, SAGE retrieves relevant experience from this repository to guide training on new tasks, achieving a 12.4‑percentage‑point improvement over a baseline pipeline without accumulated experience on nine unseen tasks.

By Haoran Zhao, Wei Du, Dingwen Yang, Jixuan Huang, Junlin Shang, Lingyong Fang, Ya Guo, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv AI
Aug 19

PlanPO: Group Planning-Aware Policy Optimization for Multi-Turn Agentic LLMs

PlanPO introduces a group planning-aware policy optimization method for multi-turn agentic large language models, addressing the issue of advantage collapse caused by treating all successful trajectories equally. By incorporating coarse-to-fine advantage signals that reflect differences in trajectory and turn lengths, PlanPO encourages agents to learn generalizable planning and generation behaviors. Experiments show a 27.2% average improvement over GRPO on benchmarks such as ALFWorld, WebShop, and SciWorld, with minimal extra training cost.

By Dayang Liang, Liyuan He, Xuan Feng, Shuxin Li, Bo An, Yunlong Liu