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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational12 October 2026

Beyond Binary Verifiable Rewards: Behavioral Self-Rewarding for SWE Agents

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arXiv:2610.12598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) provides reliable supervision for software engineering agents through executable tests, but binary rewards fail to distinguish trajectories with substantially different debugging quality. We investigate whether the current policy can judge its own trajectories and use these judgments to improve task performance without a separately trained reward model. To this end, we introduce Behavioral Self-Rewarding (BSR), a reward-refinement method that reuses the policy to compare observable debugging b
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