v0.1-lctes-final — LCTES '26 camera-ready

Camera-ready snapshot for the LCTES '26 WIP paper Scheduled Partial-Credit RL for Reliable Code Generation with Small Language Models.

• ACM DOI: 10.1145/3814943.3816167
• Zenodo concept DOI (resolves to latest version): 10.5281/zenodo.19999641
• Camera-ready PDF: paper/pldiws26lctesmain-p11-p-b372538494-176281_176283M-final.pdf

Changes since v0.1-lctes:

• Added LCTES '26 camera-ready PDF (replaces the prior submission PDF)
• Updated title to Scheduled Partial-Credit RL... across README, CITATION.cff, .zenodo.json
• Filled ACM DOI in citation metadata
• Switched Zenodo references to the concept DOI so the citation always resolves to the latest version
• Minor build/tooling fixes (minimal_example.sh import, ORCIDs)

LCTES '26 WIP submission snapshot

Initial public release accompanying the LCTES '26 WIP paper Partial-Credit RL for Reliable Code Generation with Small Language Models.

What's included

• Full training and evaluation pipeline: SFT plus three PPO variants with partial-credit reward and Bandit static-analysis path.
• LCTES submission PDF at paper/lctes26-paper.pdf.
• Minimal working example for artifact-evaluation functional check (scripts/minimal_example.sh).
• 20-prompt pilot evaluation data in experiment_results/. The paper Table 3 numbers are from a separate 100-prompt run on the same checkpoints; see experiment_results/README.md.
• LICENSE (MIT), CITATION.cff, requirements.txt, .zenodo.json.

Reproducibility

README.md and run_both_experiments.sh cover full reproduction at the paper's 100-prompt scale (~24h on a single NVIDIA V100 16 GB). scripts/minimal_example.sh exercises every stage on a 4-prompt subset in 10 to 30 minutes for artifact-evaluation functional verification.

DOIs

The Zenodo deposit DOI for this snapshot will be filled into CITATION.cff once assigned. The LCTES paper DOI will be filled in the README BibTeX block once ACM assigns it.