Post-Training on Office Work Improves Software Engineering: A Behavioral Account of Cross-Domain Transfer
This work addresses the limited goal-directed execution capability of large language models in long-horizon tasks by introducing a Goal-Directed Execution (GDE) behavioral framework. The authors conduct post-training on the Qwen3.5-122B-A10B model using 363 long-horizon, multi-tool agent tasks from office scenarios, without relying on software engineering data. This approach yields a notable improvement on SWE-Bench Pro, increasing pass@1 by 5.8 percentage points. Experimental results demonstrate significant enhancements across four core GDE capabilities: goal selection, state construction, goal consistency maintenance, and environment validation. Furthermore, the model exhibits effective cross-domain transfer between office and software engineering tasks, confirming that long-horizon post-training can successfully drive the transfer of behavioral mechanisms.