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LoLBench: Evaluating Coding Agents with Long-Horizon Proposals on Large Software Systems

Yun Peng, Zihan Wu, Zeyang Zhuang, Xin Zhou +5 more

Published

Sep 29, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

25% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Sep 29, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Modern coding agents can deliver increasingly large repository-level changes, and recent benchmarks reflect this by emphasizing long-horizon tasks with large reference implementations. Many benchmarks evaluate coding agents' implementation capability to produce correct code edits from detailed specifications. However, practical modular development tasks also require the perception capability of grounding user intent and high-level design to derive a specification. We introduce LoLBench to evaluate both capabilities through the entire proposal-to-implementation process on large software systems. It is a multilingual benchmark of 100 tasks across 29 software systems in five domains. Each task provides a human-written enhancement proposal with user intent and high-level design. On average, proposals contain about 5,000 words, software systems contain 2.4 million source lines of code (LoC), and implementation pull requests (PRs) change approximately 5,500 LoC. Across 28 agents we evaluated, the best agent resolves only 14% of tasks and achieves a 52.7% Fail-to-Pass (F2P) pass rate. Failure analysis identifies incomplete code localization as a major bottleneck, while providing reference-derived file trees alongside API specifications improves resolved rates by 16--22 percentage points (2.4--17$\times$), reaching at most 34%. These results show that both perception and implementation remain central challenges for coding agents in practical modular development on large software systems. LoLBench is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/lolbench26/LoLBench.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Modern coding agents can deliver increasingly large repository-level changes, and recent benchmarks reflect this by emphasizing long-horizon tasks with large reference implementations."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"Modern coding agents can deliver increasingly large repository-level changes, and recent benchmarks reflect this by emphasizing long-horizon tasks with large reference implementations."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Modern coding agents can deliver increasingly large repository-level changes, and recent benchmarks reflect this by emphasizing long-horizon tasks with large reference implementations."

Benchmarks / Datasets

partial

Lolbench

Useful for quick benchmark comparison.

"We introduce LoLBench to evaluate both capabilities through the entire proposal-to-implementation process on large software systems."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"Modern coding agents can deliver increasingly large repository-level changes, and recent benchmarks reflect this by emphasizing long-horizon tasks with large reference implementations."

Benchmarks and datasets

Lolbench

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
Coding, Multilingual
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
Long Horizon
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Modern coding agents can deliver increasingly large repository-level changes, and recent benchmarks reflect this by emphasizing long-horizon tasks with large reference implementations.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Modern coding agents can deliver increasingly large repository-level changes, and recent benchmarks reflect this by emphasizing long-horizon tasks with large reference implementations.
  • Many benchmarks evaluate coding agents' implementation capability to produce correct code edits from detailed specifications.
  • However, practical modular development tasks also require the perception capability of grounding user intent and high-level design to derive a specification.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Tool-use evaluation, Long-horizon tasks) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • Modern coding agents can deliver increasingly large repository-level changes, and recent benchmarks reflect this by emphasizing long-horizon tasks with large reference implementations.
  • We introduce LoLBench to evaluate both capabilities through the entire proposal-to-implementation process on large software systems.
  • Across 28 agents we evaluated, the best agent resolves only 14% of tasks and achieves a 52.7% Fail-to-Pass (F2P) pass rate.

Why it matters for eval

  • Modern coding agents can deliver increasingly large repository-level changes, and recent benchmarks reflect this by emphasizing long-horizon tasks with large reference implementations.
  • Across 28 agents we evaluated, the best agent resolves only 14% of tasks and achieves a 52.7% Fail-to-Pass (F2P) pass rate.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    Detected: Lolbench

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.