Zhihao Lv
Author directory2026
SWE-World: Building Software Engineering Agents in Docker-Free Environments
Shuang Sun | Huatong Song | Lisheng Huang | Jinhao Jiang | Ran Le | Zhihao Lv | Zongchao Chen | Yiwen Hu | Wenyang Luo | Xin Zhao | Hongteng Xu | Ji-Rong Wen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Shuang Sun | Huatong Song | Lisheng Huang | Jinhao Jiang | Ran Le | Zhihao Lv | Zongchao Chen | Yiwen Hu | Wenyang Luo | Xin Zhao | Hongteng Xu | Ji-Rong Wen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled software engineering agents to solve complex code modification tasks. However, most existing approaches rely on execution feedback from Docker-based environments, which require dependency-complete setup, program execution, and test validation, making agent training costly and difficult to scale. We propose SWE-World, a Docker-free framework that replaces containerized execution during downstream agent optimization with a learned surrogate environment. Trained on real agent-environment interaction traces, SWE-World predicts both step-level execution feedback and final test outcomes, preserving the standard agent-environment loop without repeatedly constructing or running Docker environments. This surrogate also enables test-time scaling (TTS) by scoring multiple candidate trajectories through simulated evaluation. Experiments on SWE-bench Verified show that SWE-World improves Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct from 6.2% to 52.0% with Docker-free SFT, 55.0% with Docker-free RL, and 68.2% with TTS. The code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/SWE-World-2D1E.
2025
Unlocking General Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models via Representation Engineering
Xinyu Tang | Xiaolei Wang | Zhihao Lv | Yingqian Min | Wayne Xin Zhao | Binbin Hu | Ziqi Liu | Zhiqiang Zhang
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Xinyu Tang | Xiaolei Wang | Zhihao Lv | Yingqian Min | Wayne Xin Zhao | Binbin Hu | Ziqi Liu | Zhiqiang Zhang
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Recent advancements in long chain-of-thoughts (long CoTs) have significantly improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Existing work finds that the capability of long CoT reasoning can be efficiently elicited by tuning on only a few examples and can easily transfer to other tasks. This motivates us to investigate whether long CoT reasoning is a general capability for LLMs. In this work, we conduct an empirical analysis for this question from the perspective of representation. We find that LLMs do encode long CoT reasoning as a general capability, with a clear distinction from vanilla CoTs. Furthermore, domain-specific representations are also required for the effective transfer of long CoT reasoning. Inspired by these findings, we propose GLORE, a novel representation engineering method to unleash the general long CoT reasoning capabilities of LLMs. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of GLORE in both in-domain and cross-domain scenarios. The code is available at https://github.com/txy77/GLoRE.