A Theoretical Analysis of Test-Driven Code Generation

arXiv:2602.06098 · cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-02-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-02-05

Updated: 2026-10-16

Terminology

• Regret — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Inductive Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reward Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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