Before the Rollout Ends: Early Terminal Reward Prediction for Long-horizon Coding Agents
Long-horizon coding agents receive verifiable rewards only after completing expensive sequences of tool calls. This increases inference cost, amplifies early wrong hypotheses, and can lead to sparse terminal reward and unstable training.
By Jihan Yao, Sihan Zeng, Shangbin Feng, Zhiyuan Fan, Banghua Zhu, Yulia TsvetkovarXiv - cs.CL (NLP)
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Originally published by arXiv - cs.CL (NLP) on Sep 30, 2026.
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