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SWE-Compass: Towards Unified Evaluation of Agentic Coding Abilities for Large Language Models

arXiv 2511.05459 ↗First posted 7 Nov 2025cs.SE cs.AIcited by 11

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Software engineering coding agents

Abstract (arXiv)

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) for software engineering has been limited by narrow task coverage, language bias, and insufficient alignment with real-world developer workflows. Existing benchmarks often focus on algorithmic problems or Python-centric bug fixing, leaving critical dimensions of software engineering underexplored. To address these gaps, we introduce SWE-Compass1, a comprehensive benchmark that unifies heterogeneous code-related evaluations into a structured and production-aligned framework. SWE-Compass spans 8 task types, 8 programming scenarios, and 10 programming languages, with 2000 high-quality instances curated from authentic GitHub pull requests and refined through systematic filtering and validation. We benchmark ten state-of-the-art LLMs under two agentic frameworks, SWE-Agent and Claude Code, revealing a clear hierarchy of difficulty across task types, languages, and scenarios. Moreover, by aligning evaluation with real-world developer practices, SWE-Compass provides a rigorous and reproducible foundation for diagnosing and advancing agentic coding capabilities in large language models.

Key facts. Cited by 11 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Software engineering coding agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 28 of its 43 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 Nov 2025.

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28 of 43 references.

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  2. 2025SWE-rebench: An Automated Pipeline for Task Collection and Decontaminated Evaluation of Software Engineering Agents26 May
  3. 2025SWE-PolyBench: A multi-language benchmark for repository level evaluation of coding agents11 Apr
  4. 2024OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents23 Jul
  5. 2024SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering6 May

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  3. 2021Program Synthesis with Large Language Modelscited by 3,637
  4. 2023SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?cited by 3,373
  5. 2024LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Codecited by 2,004
  6. 2022Competition-Level Code Generation with AlphaCodecited by 1,462
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  9. 2024BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructionscited by 546
  10. 2022InCoder: A Generative Model for Code Infilling and Synthesiscited by 498
  11. 2022A Systematic Evaluation of Large Language Models of Codecited by 363
  12. 2024SWE-bench Multimodal: Do AI Systems Generalize to Visual Software Domains?cited by 203
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  4. 2025Can Large Language Models Detect Errors in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning?cited by 44
  5. 2025ArtifactsBench: Bridging the Visual-Interactive Gap in LLM Code Generation Evaluationcited by 42
  6. 2024D-CPT Law: Domain-specific Continual Pre-Training Scaling Law for Large Language Modelscited by 41
  7. 2024DDK: Distilling Domain Knowledge for Efficient Large Language Modelscited by 26
  8. 2024M2rc-Eval: Massively Multilingual Repository-level Code Completion Evaluationcited by 21
  9. 2024MTU-Bench: A Multi-granularity Tool-Use Benchmark for Large Language Modelscited by 17
  10. 2025CodeCriticBench: A Holistic Code Critique Benchmark for Large Language Modelscited by 14
  11. 2025HiPO: Hybrid Policy Optimization for Dynamic Reasoning in LLMscited by 4

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  3. 2025LoCoBench-Agent: An Interactive Benchmark for LLM Agents in Long-Context Software Engineering
  4. 2026SWE Atlas: Benchmarking Coding Agents Beyond Issue Resolution
  5. 2026FeatureBench: Benchmarking Agentic Coding for Complex Feature Development
  6. 2026Reliable and Developer-Aligned Evaluation of Agents for Software Engineering
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  8. 2026FormulaCode: Evaluating Agentic Optimization on Large Codebases