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SWE-Master: Unleashing the Potential of Software Engineering Agents via Post-Training

HHuatong SongLLisheng HuangSShuang SunJJinhao JiangRRan LeDDaixuan ChengGGuoxin ChenYYiwen HuZZongchao ChenWWayne Xin ZhaoYYang SongTTao ZhangJJi-Rong Wen
Published
February 3, 2026
Authors
13

Abstract

In this technical report, we present SWE-Master, an open-source and fully reproducible post-training framework for building effective software engineering agents. SWE-Master systematically explores the complete agent development pipeline, including teacher-trajectory synthesis and data curation, long-horizon SFT, RL with real execution feedback, and inference framework design. Starting from an open-source base model with limited initial SWE capability, SWE-Master demonstrates how systematical optimization method can elicit strong long-horizon SWE task solving abilities. We evaluate SWE-Master on SWE-bench Verified, a standard benchmark for realistic software engineering tasks. Under identical experimental settings, our approach achieves a resolve rate of 61.4\% with Qwen2.5-Coder-32B, substantially outperforming existing open-source baselines. By further incorporating test-time scaling~(TTS) with LLM-based environment feedback, SWE-Master reaches 70.8\% at TTS@8, demonstrating a strong performance potential. SWE-Master provides a practical and transparent foundation for advancing reproducible research on software engineering agents. The code is available at https://github.com/RUCAIBox/SWE-Master.

Keywords

post-training frameworkteacher-trajectory synthesisdata curationlong-horizon SFTRL with real execution feedbackinference framework designSWE-bench Verifiedresolve ratetest-time scalingLLM-based environment feedback

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