PERFOPT-Bench: Evaluating Coding Agents on Software Performance Optimization
Coding-agent benchmarks have largely measured whether agents can produce functionally correct patches, but production software also demands measurable speedups on real execution targets. Performance optimization is a distinct agentic task:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07744v1 ↗Thesis fit
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