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Verification Limits Code LLM Training research paper by Cohere, 2025

Cohere · Sep 25, 2025 · Training and scaling 1 year ago

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Verification design and strategies impact code generation performance, showing that richer and more diverse test suites improve capabilities while calibrated verification thresholds enhance data usability.

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Authors
Srishti Gureja, Elena Tommasone, Jingyi He and 3 more
arXiv
2509.20837 · PDF
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