Cross-Benchmark Transfer from RL on Agentic Coding Tasks
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arXiv:2610.00890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents often fail in the last mile: they build most of a feature but drop a requirement, test only the cases their implementation already handles, break behavior that was supposed to stay intact, or validate against an unchecked assumption. We ask whether reinforcement learning (RL) on expert-built agentic coding tasks closes this gap, and whether what the agent learns transfers beyond the training distribution. We post-train Kimi K2.7 Code, a 1T-parameter (32B active) open-weight mixture-of-experts model, with RL alone on 1,700 tasks: 1
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.00890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents often fail in the last mile: they build most of a feature but drop a requirement, test only the cases their implementation already handles, break behavior that was supposed to stay intact, or validate against an unchecked assumption.
- We ask whether reinforcement learning (RL) on expert-built agentic coding tasks closes this gap, and whether what the agent learns transfers beyond the training distribution.
- We post-train Kimi K2.7 Code, a 1T-parameter (32B active) open-weight mixture-of-experts model, with RL alone on 1,700 tasks: 1
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