arXiv:2608.30724v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly used to run autonomous ML experiments, iterating on target metrics with little human oversight. Prior work has documented...
By Pradyumna Shyama Prasad, Meiri Anto, Leon Eshuijs, Julian Moncarz, Kaustubh Kislay, Juan J. Vazquez
arXiv:2609.08149v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: SWE-Bench Pro has emerged as a standard benchmark for evaluating software engineering agents on challenging repository-level tasks. However, our analys...
By Pujun Zheng, Zixin Shang, Shufan Jiang, Wenhui Tian, Dongsheng Zhu, Zerun Ma, Dingbo Yuan, Qi Zhang
arXiv:2606. 07682v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are increasingly expected to complete long-horizon workflows that require sustained progress over hours, millions of tokens, and complex environments.
By Rishi Desai, Jesse Hu, Joan Cabezas, Neel Harsola, Pratyush Shukla, Roey Ben Chaim, Adnan El Assadi, Omkaar Mukund Kamath, Fenil Faldu, Prannay Hebbar, Jiankai Sun, Yiyuan Li, Pramod Srinivasan, Ishan Gupta, Christopher Settles, Daniel Wang, Derek Chen, Pranav Raja, Albert Liu, Marek \v{S}uppa, Nevasini Sasikumar, Luyang Kong, Erik Quintanilla, Xiangyi Li, Ivan Bercovich, Steven Dillmann
arXiv:2604. 23488v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reward hacking in code generation, where models exploit evaluation loopholes to obtain high reward without correctly solving the intended task, poses a critical challenge for Reinforcement Learning (RL) and the deployment of reasoning models.
By Lichen Li, Hengguang Zhou, Yijun Liang, Tianyi Zhou, Cho-Jui Hsieh
arXiv:2604. 23488v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reward hacking in code generation, where models exploit evaluation loopholes to obtain high reward without correctly solving the intended task, poses a critical challenge for Reinforcement Learning (RL) and the deployment of reasoning models.
By Lichen Li, Hengguang Zhou, Yijun Liang, Tianyi Zhou, Cho-Jui Hsieh
arXiv:2608.22103v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As agents grow more capable and autonomous, their tendency to reward hack, satisfying a task's checks while violating its intent, becomes an increasing...
By Amit Roth, Ivan Bercovich, Yonathan Efroni
BenchShield is a formal, model-backed instrumentation layer designed to protect reward integrity in large language model (LLM) agent benchmarks. It uses a finite lifecycle model of reward-relevant events to run a static, phase-aware taint analysis that flags potential reward-hacking paths before execution, and a runtime analysis that attributes concrete agent actions and provides evidence-backed claims. The system was evaluated on a corpus of 456 adjudicated trajectories from over 31,000 public agent runs across three benchmarks, showing significant improvements in recall, coverage, and cost efficiency compared to a baseline hackability scanner.
By Shenghan Zheng, Zonglin Di, Yimin Liu, Kyoung Whan Choe, Jiankai Sun, Heguang Lin, Penghao Jiang, Yifeng He, Xiao Cheng, Jicheng Wang, Wenbo Chen, Alex Yates, Yinzhe Zhao, Bingran You, Yuan Gao, Ayush Munot, Shubham Gaur, Zhe Ye, Hao Wang, Xiangyi Li, Dawn Song, Christophe Hauser
arXiv:2606. 26300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A classical intuition holds that verifying a solution is easier than producing one.
By Binghai Wang, Chenlong Zhang, Dayiheng Liu, Jiajun Zhang, Jiawei Chen, Mouxiang Chen, Rongyao Fang, Siyuan Zhang, Xuwu Wang, Yuheng Jing, Zeyao Ma, Zeyu Cui
arXiv:2604. 01527v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Production deployment of AI coding agents requires fast, reproducible evaluation signals.
By Smriti Jha, Matteo Paltenghi, Chandra Maddila, Vijayaraghavan Murali, Shubham Ugare, Satish Chandra
arXiv:2609.21562v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Coding agents can modify and test code across large software projects. Game development is a domain where agents must implement gameplay rules. A gam...
By Xinyu Che, Yunfei Ge, Shihao Li, Yanchen Liu, Hang Yan, Xinping Lei, Yanghai Wang, Zixuan Dong, Yifan Yao, Qianqian Xie, Letian Zhu, Jiaheng Liu
arXiv:2602. 20213v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation relies heavily on the quality and robustness of test cases.
By Jingwei Shi, Xinxiang Yin, Jing Huang, Jinman Zhao, Shengyu Tao
arXiv:2607. 05188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A coding agent solving a software-engineering task spends dozens of steps reasoning, editing code, and running tests, yet little is known about what the underlying language model internally represents about the program it is working on.
By Andr\'e Silva, Han Tu, Martin Monperrus