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SWE-EVO: Benchmarking Coding Agents in Long-Horizon Software Evolution Scenarios

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Existing benchmarks for AI coding agents focus on isolated, single-issue tasks such as fixing a bug or adding a small feature. However, real-world software engineering is a long-horizon endeavor: developers interpret high-level requirements, coordinate changes across many files, and evolve codebases over multiple iterations while preserving functionality. We introduce SWE-EVO, a benchmark for this long-horizon software evolution challenge. Constructed from release notes of seven mature open-source Python projects, SWE-EVO comprises 48 tasks requiring multi-step modifications spanning an average of 21 files, validated against test suites averaging 874 tests per instance. Experiments reveal a striking capability gap: GPT-5.4 with OpenHands achieves only 25% on SWE-EVO versus 72.80% achieved by GPT-5.2 on SWE-Bench Verified, showing that current agents struggle with sustained, multi-file reasoning. We also propose Fix Rate, a metric capturing partial progress on these complex, long-horizon tasks.

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VibeServe: Can AI Agents Build Bespoke LLM Serving Systems?

cs.AI · 2026-05-07 · unverdicted · novelty 8.0

VibeServe demonstrates that AI agents can synthesize bespoke LLM serving systems end-to-end, remaining competitive with vLLM in standard settings while outperforming it in six non-standard scenarios involving unusual models, workloads, or hardware.

PBT-Bench: Benchmarking AI Agents on Property-Based Testing

cs.SE · 2026-05-13 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0 · 2 refs

PBT-Bench is a new benchmark of 100 property-based testing problems with 365 injected semantic bugs across 40 Python libraries that measures LLMs on deriving invariants and precise input-generation strategies.

ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs From Scratch?

cs.SE · 2026-05-05 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

ProgramBench introduces 200 tasks where models must reconstruct full programs like FFmpeg or SQLite from docs alone; none of 9 evaluated LMs fully solve any task and the best passes 95% tests on only 3% of tasks while favoring monolithic code.

AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide

cs.AI · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

The paper delivers a stage-by-stage roadmap for AI in research, showing reliable assistance in retrieval and tool tasks but fragility in novelty and judgment, advocating human-governed collaboration.

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