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  1. Multi-turn RL with Structural and Performance Aware Rewards for CUDA Kernel Generation

    Jul 23, 2026Quazi Ishtiaque Mahmud, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Ali JannesariRL for Code GenerationGPU Kernel Optimization

    Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA · Cisco AI Research, San Jose, CA, USA

  2. GFlowRL: Scaling Distribution-Matching RL to Large Language Models

    Jul 15, 2026Xiaodong Liu, Michael Xu, Jack W. Stokes +3RL for Code GenerationReinforcement Learning

    Microsoft Research

  3. Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Physics: Post-training LLMs with Continuous Rewards

    Jul 11, 2026Pengfei Cai, Utkarsh Utkarsh, Alan Edelman +2RL for Code GenerationScientific Code Generation

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  4. Selective Left-Shift: Turning Test-Time Compute and Difficulty-based Curation into Training Data for Low-Resource Code Generation

    Jul 8, 2026Didula Samaraweera, Anjana Supun, Srinath PereraRL for Code GenerationCode Generation

    WSO2 Santa Clara, CA, USA

  5. KAT-Coder-V2.5 Technical Report

    Jul 6, 2026Bo Huang, Fengxiang Li, Hao Xu +50RL for Code GenerationSoftware Engineering Agents

  6. Beyond the Need for Speed: Energy-Aware Code Generation via Simulation-Guided Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 6, 2026Saurabhsingh Rajput, Tushar SharmaRL for Code GenerationReinforcement Learning

    Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

  7. Anchored Self-Play for Code Repair

    Jul 3, 2026Caroline Choi, Zeyneb Kaya, Shirley Wu +3RL for Code GenerationAutomated Program Repair

    Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

  8. DecompRL: Solving Harder Problems by Learning Modular Code Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Juliette Decugis, Fabian Gloeckle, Francis Bach +2RL for Code GenerationCode Generation

    FAIR at Meta · Inria · École Normale Supérieure +2

  9. The Rollout Infrastructure Tax in Coding-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 1, 2026Daniel Thi Graviet, Lovre Pesut, Ivan Dagelic +2RL for Code GenerationSoftware Engineering Agents

    Daytona United States

  10. UniCoder: Unified Visual-to-Code Generation via Symbolic Rewards and Reference-Guided Code Optimization

    Jun 30, 2026Yaozhi Zheng, Yilei Jiang, Manyuan Zhang +5RL for Code GenerationReinforcement Learning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  11. Reinforcement Learning without Ground-Truth Solutions can Improve LLMs

    Jun 25, 2026Yingyu Lin, Qiyue Gao, Nikki Lijing Kuang +6RL for Code GenerationReinforcement Learning

    University of California, San Diego · Snowflake AI Research

  12. Reinforcement learning to improve large language model-based automated code compliance systems

    Jun 21, 2026Jack Wei Lun Shi, Minghao Dang, Wawan Solihin +2RL for Code GenerationLLM Code Generation

    1National University of Singapore · 2Harbin Institute of Technology · 3NovaCITYNETS

  13. When Do Intrinsic Rewards Work for Code Reasoning? A Comprehensive Study

    Jun 18, 2026Xiaolong Jin, Xuandong Zhao, Wenbo Guo +2RL for Code GenerationIntrinsic Reward Methods

    Purdue University · UC Berkeley · UC Santa Barbara

  14. Self-Improvement Can Self-Regress: The Rise-and-Collapse Failure Mode of LLM Self-Training

    Jun 17, 2026Jianzhe LinRL for Code GenerationReinforcement Learning

    MetaAI · *Work done at Meta

  15. daVinci-kernel: Co-Evolving Skill Selection, Summarization, and Utilization via RL for GPU Kernel Optimization

    Jun 15, 2026Dayuan Fu, Mohan Jiang, Tongyu Wang +5RL for Code GenerationGPU Kernel Optimization

    1SII · 2SJTU · 3GAIR

  16. Auditing Reward Hackability in Code RL Training Environments

    Jun 14, 2026Shreshth RajanRL for Code GenerationReward Hacking

  17. Self-Distillation Policy Optimization via Visual Feedback: Bridging Code and Visual Artifacts

    Jun 9, 2026Haoyu DongRL for Code GenerationCode Generation

    Microsoft

  18. MusaCoder: Native GPU Kernel Generation with Full-Stack Training on Moore Threads GPU

    Jun 3, 2026Kun Cheng, Songshuo Lu, Sicong Liao +7RL for Code GenerationGPU Kernel Optimization

    Moore Threads AI

  19. StepPRM-RTL: Stepwise Process-Reward Guided LLM Fine-Tuning for Enhanced RTL Synthesis

    Jun 2, 2026Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Apoorva Nitsure, Luyao Shi +2RL for Code GenerationProcess Reward Models

    IBM Research San Jose, CA, USA

  20. Learn from Your Mistakes: Tree-like Self-Play for Secure Code LLMs

    Jun 2, 2026Wenqi Chen, Ziyan Zhang, Bin Wang +3RL for Code GenerationLLM Self-Correction

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · Peking University, Beijing, China · University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China +2

  21. EvoTrainer: Co-Evolving LLM Policies and Training Harnesses for Autonomous Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 2, 2026Guhong Chen, Yingcheng Shi, Yongbin Li +6RL for Code GenerationAgentic RL

    1Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · 2Tongyi Lab , Alibaba Group · 3Alibaba Group +1

  22. Combinatorial Synthesis: Scaling Code RLVR via Atomic Decomposition and Recombination

    May 29, 2026Jiasheng Zheng, Boxi Cao, Boxi Yu +6RL for Code GenerationReinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

    Chinese Information Processing Laboratory, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Lero the Research Ireland Centre for Software, University of Limerick · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen +1

  23. Automating Formal Verification with Reinforcement Learning and Recursive Inference

    May 29, 2026Max TanRL for Code GenerationInference-Time Search

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  24. Improving Small Language Models for Code Generation with Reinforcement Learning from Verification Feedback

    May 28, 2026Egor Skopin, Evgeny KotelnikovRL for Code GenerationReward Shaping

  25. Extrapolative Weight Averaging Reveals Correctness-Efficiency Frontiers in Code RL

    May 27, 2026Kunhao Zheng, Pierre Chambon, Juliette Decugis +4Multi-Objective Reinforcement LearningRL for Code Generation

    Meta Superintelligence Labs - FAIR · Université Paris-Dauphine PSL

  26. Efficient Post-training of LLMs for Code Generation With Offline Reinforcement Learning

    May 27, 2026Mingze Wu, Abhinav Anand, Shweta Verma +1RL for Code GenerationOffline RL

    Technische Universitat, Darmstadt, Germany · Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence, Darmstadt, Germany · National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE

  27. Beyond pass@k: Redundancy-Aware RLVR for Multi-Sample Code Generation

    May 27, 2026Le Bronnec Florian, Alexandre Verine, Rio Yokota +1RL for Code GenerationCode Generation

    RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Tokyo, Japan · École Normale Supérieure Paris, PSL University, Paris, France · LAMSADE, CNRS, Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, Paris, France

  28. Cast a Wider Net: Coordinated Pass@K Policy Optimization for Code Reasoning

    May 26, 2026Yilong Li, Suman Banerjee, Tong CheRL for Code GenerationCode Generation

    University of Wisconsin–Madison · NVIDIA Research

  29. CoRe-Code: Collaborative Reinforcement Learning for Code Generation

    May 24, 2026Zhihao Dou, Qinjian Zhao, Zhongwei Wan +2RL for Code GenerationMulti-Agent Coordination

    Department of Computer Science Kean University · Department of Computer Science Case Western Reserve University

  30. Domain-Adaptable Reinforcement Learning for Code Generation with Dense Rewards

    May 20, 2026Erfan Aghadavoodi Jolfaei, Daniel Maninger, Abhinav Anand +2RL for Code GenerationReinforcement Learning

    Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany · Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI), Darmstadt, Germany · National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Darmstadt, Germany.