most citedAetherCode: Evaluating LLMs' Ability to Win In Premier Programming Competitions

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cs.CL2026

Scaling Reasoning Tokens via RL and Parallel Thinking: Evidence From Competitive Programming

Qianfan Zhang, Tianyu Guo, Xuandi Ren +4

We study how to scale reasoning token budgets for competitive programming through two complementary approaches: training-time reinforcement learning (RL) and test-time parallel thi…

cs.SE2026

Understanding by Reconstruction: Reversing the Software Development Process for LLM Pretraining

Zhiyuan Zeng, Yichi Zhang, Yong Shan +11

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in code generation, they often struggle with the deep, long-horizon reasoning required for complex software engi…

cs.SD2026

CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction

Yinghao Ma, Haiwen Xia, Hewei Gao +9

While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind. In this paper, we…

cs.CL2026

NL2Repo-Bench: Towards Long-Horizon Repository Generation Evaluation of Coding Agents

Jingzhe Ding, Shengda Long, Changxin Pu +46

Recent advances in coding agents suggest rapid progress toward autonomous software development, yet existing benchmarks fail to rigorously evaluate the long-horizon capabilities re…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

AetherCode: Evaluating LLMs' Ability to Win In Premier Programming Competitions

Zihan Wang, Jiaze Chen, Zhicheng Liu +25

Competitive programming has emerged as a critical benchmark for evaluating the reasoning and coding capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite impressive progress on exi…