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KAT-Coder-V2 Technical Report

arXiv 2603.27703 ↗First posted 29 Mar 2026cs.CL cs.LGcited by 8

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

Abstract (arXiv)

We present KAT-Coder-V2, an agentic coding model developed by the KwaiKAT team at Kuaishou. KAT-Coder-V2 adopts a "Specialize-then-Unify" paradigm that decomposes agentic coding into five expert domains - SWE, WebCoding, Terminal, WebSearch, and General - each undergoing independent supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, before being consolidated into a single model via on-policy distillation. We develop KwaiEnv, a modular infrastructure sustaining tens of thousands of concurrent sandbox instances, and scale RL training along task complexity, intent alignment, and scaffold generalization. We further propose MCLA for stabilizing MoE RL training and Tree Training for eliminating redundant computation over tree-structured trajectories with up to 6.2x speedup. KAT-Coder-V2 achieves 79.6% on SWE-bench Verified (vs. Claude Opus 4.6 at 80.8%), 88.7 on PinchBench (surpassing GLM-5 and MiniMax M2.7), ranks first across all three frontend aesthetics scenarios, and maintains strong generalist scores on Terminal-Bench Hard (46.8) and tau^2-Bench (93.9). Our model is publicly available at https://streamlake.com/product/kat-coder.

Key facts. Cited by 8 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 21 of its 25 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 29 Mar 2026.

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21 of 25 references.

Closest ancestors · 5

Same direction, newest first

  1. 2026SWE-rebench V2: Language-Agnostic SWE Task Collection at Scale27 Feb
  2. 2026GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering17 Feb
  3. 2026CLI-Gym: Scalable CLI Task Generation via Agentic Environment Inversion11 Feb
  4. 2025KAT-Coder Technical Report21 Oct
  5. 2025SWE-smith: Scaling Data for Software Engineering Agents30 Apr

Other references · 16

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  2. 2023SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?cited by 3,373
  3. 2023WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agentscited by 2,006
  4. 2024LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Codecited by 2,004
  5. 2024τ-bench: A Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction in Real-World Domainscited by 1,402
  6. 2025Group Sequence Policy Optimizationcited by 835
  7. 2025DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Modelscited by 815
  8. 2025τ2-Bench: Evaluating Conversational Agents in a Dual-Control Environmentcited by 627
  9. 2026Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfacescited by 585
  10. 2026Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligencecited by 501
  11. 2025SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks?cited by 279
  12. 2025Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Followingcited by 194
4 more
  1. 2024Design2Code: Benchmarking Multimodal Code Generation for Automated Front-End Engineeringcited by 152
  2. 2026Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameterscited by 36
  3. 2026TermiGen: High-Fidelity Environment and Robust Trajectory Synthesis for Terminal Agentscited by 29
  4. 2025Tree Training: Accelerating Agentic LLMs Training via Shared Prefix Reusecited by 5

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