Scalable Supervision for Software Agents via Patch Reasoning

The paper introduces R4P, a reasoning‑based supervision method for software agents that eliminates the need for test execution by using a group‑wise training objective to verify multiple patches simultaneously. R4P achieves 72.2% accuracy on the SWE‑bench patch verification task, matching proprietary models, and enables the creation of an execution‑free scaffold called Mini‑SE. Mini‑SE, trained purely with reinforcement learning via R4P, improves Pass@1 from 26.2% to 32.8% over the baseline Qwen3‑32B, demonstrating R4P’s practical utility and scalable performance.

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• llms
• agents
• reinforcement-learning