Enhancing Bug-Exposing Test Generation via Step-Level Credit Assignment and Self-Distillation from Valuable Failures

arXiv:2610.27694 · cs.SE · Submitted 2026-10-20 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-20

Updated: 2026-10-20

Terminology

• Credit assignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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