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MindForge: Teaching Small Language Models Whole-Life-Cycle Software Engineering via Source-Free Program Synthesis
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- arxiv.org
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- Yihao Chen, Shi Chang, Khaled Chawa, Feng Lin, Boyuan Chen, Shaowei Wang, Ahmed E. Hassan
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Why it matters
Frontier models fully resolve under 1% of from-scratch ProgramBench tasks. Converting open-source command-line programs into source-free environments — only a compiled reference executable plus docs — yields trajectories that take a 27B model from 38% to 49.5%.
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