2 papers
cs.SE2026
PreciseCoder: Faithful and Generalizable Debugging Beyond Unit-Test Rewards
Yunkai Zhan, Miaosen Chai, Shangshang Wang +5
Reinforcement learning (RL) from unit tests is the common recipe for post-training code models, but a unit test only asks whether the final program passes. We analyze what this uni…
cs.SE2026
Precise Debugging Benchmark: Is Your Model Debugging or Regenerating?
Wang Bill Zhu, Miaosen Chai, Shangshang Wang +5
Unlike code completion, debugging requires localizing faults and applying targeted edits. We observe that frontier LLMs often regenerate correct but over-edited solutions during de…