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New SWE-Prime method improves LLM performance on software engineering tasks

Researchers have introduced SWE-Prime, a novel two-stage method for selecting data to fine-tune large language models for software engineering tasks. This approach filters training data at both the trajectory and segment levels to improve the quality of supervision and mitigate undesirable behaviors. Experiments on SWE-Bench Pro and SWE-Bench Verified demonstrate that SWE-Prime's curated 10% subset of trajectories can lead to significant performance gains compared to using the full resolved dataset. AI

IMPACT This method could lead to more efficient and effective training of LLMs for complex software engineering tasks, potentially improving AI-driven code generation and debugging.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Dewu Zheng, Ruizhe Ye, Yanlin Wang, Yang Ye, Hongyu Zhang, Ensheng Shi, Xilin Liu, Yuchi Ma, Jianxing Yu, Zibin Zheng ·

    SWE-Prime: Fewer Trajectories, Better Performance

    arXiv:2608.27449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To improve large language models' ability to resolve real-world software issues, prior work has focused on constructing large-scale agent trajectory datasets and performing supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on successful trajectories. …