SWE-NFI: Studying and Benchmarking Coding Agents for Non-Functional Improvements

arXiv:2607.27409 · cs.SE, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-07-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-07-29

Updated: 2026-10-06

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