# Beyond Binary Verifiable Rewards: Behavioral Self-Rewarding for SWE Agents

**Published:** October 12, 2026
**Author:** Yiran Wu, Andrew Zhao, Yurui Chang, Qingyun Wu, Xuan Feng
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2610.12598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) provides reliable supervision for software engineering agents through executable tests, but binary rewards fail to distinguish trajectories with substantially different…

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