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ARXIV:2605.23491 · LLM CODE GENERATION · SUBMITTED 25 MAY · 20:33 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2605.23491LLM CODE GENERATIONSUBMITTED 25 MAY · 20:33 UTCFRESHNESS STALEZhangyi Hu · Chenhui Liu · Tian Huang · Jindong Li · Yang Yang · Jiemin Wu · +3 at arXiv
A framework that jointly improves LLM-generated code and unit tests through cooperative self-play, enabling competitive code generation without ground-truth data.
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Pain A framework that jointly improves LLM-generated code and unit tests through cooperative self-play, enabling competitive code generation without ground-truth data.
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A framework that jointly improves LLM-generated code and unit tests through cooperative self-play, enabling competitive code generation without ground-truth data. Yet Ground-Truth Unit Tests (GT UTs) remain a bottleneck: SOTA RLVR methods require them…
Recently, Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and Test-Time Scaling (TTS) have advanced LLM code generation through executable verification. Yet Ground-Truth Unit Tests (GT UTs) remain a bottleneck: SOTA RLVR methods require them for…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. The key challenge is therefore to jointly improve both. A public repository is linked, so build verification can inspect implementation evidence instead of treating…
LLM Code Generation moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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A framework that jointly improves LLM-generated code and unit tests through cooperative self-play, enabling competitive code generation without ground-truth data.
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10.48550/arXiv.2605.23491A framework that jointly improves LLM-generated code and unit tests through cooperative self-play, enabling competitive code generation without ground-truth data.
Abstract
Recently, Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and Test-Time Scaling (TTS) have advanced LLM code generation through executable verification. Yet Ground-Truth Unit Tests (GT UTs) remain a bottleneck: SOTA RLVR methods require them for costly training, while existing TTS methods lose competitiveness without them. This motivates GT-free TTS, where existing methods directly use self-generated UTs to refine and select code candidates. Yet such UTs are often noisy or spuriously coupled with wrong code, and UT quality in turn cannot be validated without reliable code. The key challenge is therefore to jointly improve both. To this end, we present CoSPlay, a GT-free, training-free framework that jointly improves codes and UTs through cooperative self-play. It first explores diverse solution ideas and identifies their potential failure modes to produce discriminative UT ideas. It then uses bidirectional pass-count signals from the Code-UT execution matrix to iteratively prune or fix weak codes and refresh or replace unreliable UTs, letting the two pools co-evolve. Finally, when multiple codes remain tied at the highest pass count, it picks the final code from the largest output-consensus cluster, since correct codes agree on the same inputs while wrong codes diverge. Experiments on four challenging benchmarks show that CoSPlay on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct improves average BoN from 22.1% to 33.2% and UT accuracy from 14.6% to 78.3%, matching or surpassing the RLVR model CURE-7B. When applied to CURE-7B, it further improves BoN by 5.7%. CoSPlay also generalizes across diverse backbones and outperforms GT-free TTS baselines under comparable token budgets, with continued gains as the budget scales up. These results suggest a scalable inference strategy for competitive code generation without any GT data.
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A framework that jointly improves LLM-generated code and unit tests through cooperative self-play, enabling competitive code generation without ground-truth data. Yet Ground-Truth Unit Tests (GT UTs) remain a bottleneck: SOTA RLVR methods require them for costly training, while...
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Recently, Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and Test-Time Scaling (TTS) have advanced LLM code generation through executable verification. Yet Ground-Truth Unit Tests (GT UTs) remain a bottleneck: SOTA RLVR methods require them for costly training, while exis...
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LLM Code Generation moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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A framework that jointly improves LLM-generated code and unit tests through cooperative self-play, enabling competitive code generation without ground-truth data. Yet Ground-Truth Unit Tests (GT UTs) remain a bottleneck: SOTA RLVR methods require them for costly training, while existing TTS methods lose competitiveness without them.
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Recently, Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and Test-Time Scaling (TTS) have advanced LLM code generation through executable verification. Yet Ground-Truth Unit Tests (GT UTs) remain a bottleneck: SOTA RLVR methods require them for costly training, while existing TTS methods lose competitiveness without them.
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LLM Code Generation moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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