PIPer: On-Device Environment Setup via Online Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25455v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:03:05 GMT
• Title: PIPer: On-Device Environment Setup via Online Reinforcement Learning
• Authors: Alexander Kovrigin, Aleksandra Eliseeva, Konstantin Grotov, Egor Bogomolov, Yaroslav Zharov,
• Abstract summary: Automated environment setup methods could assist developers by providing fully configured environments for arbitrary repositories without manual effort.<n>Recent studies reveal that even state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve limited success in automating this task.<n>We combine supervised fine-tuning for generating correct scripts and Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) to adapt it to the task of environment setup.<n>On EnvBench-Python, our method enables Qwen3-8B (a model runnable on consumer hardware) to perform on par with larger models-Qwen3-32B and GPT-4
• Score: 74.52354321028493
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Environment setup-the process of configuring the system to work with a specific software project-represents a persistent challenge in Software Engineering (SE). Automated environment setup methods could assist developers by providing fully configured environments for arbitrary repositories without manual effort. This also helps SE researchers to scale execution-based benchmarks. However, recent studies reveal that even state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve limited success in automating this task. To address this limitation, we tune a specialized model for environment setup. We combine supervised fine-tuning for generating correct Bash scripts and Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) to adapt it to the task of environment setup. On EnvBench-Python, our method enables Qwen3-8B (a model runnable on consumer hardware) to perform on par with larger models-Qwen3-32B and GPT-4o. The training code and model checkpoints are available online: https://github.com/JetBrains-Research/PIPer.

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