Our CVPR 2026 paper is out! ๐
VLMs reason in multi-step chains, but RL (GRPO) only rewards the final answer, so the model never learns which step actually hallucinated.
Perceval fixes this with token-level, perception-grounded rewards. ๐งต๐
Results on Qwen2.5-VL (3B & 7B) vs GRPO: +~4% on visual search and +~3% on math & chart. Perception-only training generalizes to math/chart reasoning, and it rivals tool-using models like DeepEyes with no external tools.
โข +~4% visual search, +~3% math & chart
โขResults :
From one document, rebuild the whole repository.
That is the threshold long-horizon code agents must cross.
DeNovoSWE is a step toward agents that can engineer software systems, not just edit code.
Code agents are entering a new phase.
Beyond single-bug fixing.
Beyond patch-level SWE data.
Meet DeNovoSWE: an open-source long-horizon dataset for generating whole repositories from scratch.
The next stage of code agents is not just faster issue fixing.
It is document understanding, architecture planning, module organization, API implementation, and full-repository construction.
DeNovoSWE turns this goal into trainable, verifiable, scalable data.
Frontier Harnesses Need Guidance Too
The Codex comparison makes this sharper.
With the same GPT-5.4 (xhigh) model and harness, a SearchSWE-style prompt raises AVG from 48.48 to 56.65.
Search Helps, But Unevenly
Search helps: 7/8 models improve, and 20/32 task-model pairs improve.
But 31.2% still regress. External information access is useful, not automatically reliable.