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A Preservation Instruction Made the Patch Smaller and Better

Minimal-edit fidelity is measured separately from whether repaired code passes.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-04-016
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Summary

Minimal-edit fidelity is measured separately from whether repaired code passes.

Across 400 controlled BigCodeBench corruptions, preservation prompting reduced excess edit distance from 0.195 to 0.131, cut added cognitive complexity 26.6% and raised Pass@1 by 2.3 points.

Why it matters

Minimal-edit fidelity is measured separately from whether repaired code passes.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. Minimal-edit fidelity is measured separately from whether repaired code passes.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-04-018

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.04061arXiv · primary research

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