arXiv:2609.21208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-play methods that co-train a single language model as both coder and test author promise to move code-generation RL beyond fixed test suites, but they suffer from two coupled pathologies: permissiveness collapse, where pass-rate rewards are maximised by trivial, non-discriminative tests, and concentration bias, where i.i.d. sampled tests cluster

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BuilderIf the CoVer recipe holds up, code-generation pipelines could self-improve test suites instead of relying on fixed ones, but no code or API is released yet.
ResearcherThe paper names two concrete failure modes of self-play test authoring, permissiveness collapse and concentration bias, and offers an IG reward plus three-stage

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