Yichen Yu
2026
FuseSearch: Learning Adaptive Parallel Execution for Efficient Code Localization
Ke Xu | Siyang Xiao | Ming Liang | Yichen Yu | Zhixiang Wang | Jingxuan Xu | Dajun Chen | Wei Jiang | Yong Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Ke Xu | Siyang Xiao | Ming Liang | Yichen Yu | Zhixiang Wang | Jingxuan Xu | Dajun Chen | Wei Jiang | Yong Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Code localization is a primary bottleneck in automated software development. While parallel tool execution can accelerate discovery, existing agents suffer from a 34.9% redundant tool invocation rate, negating the benefits of parallelism. We introduce FuseSearch, which reframes parallel code localization as a quality–efficiency co-optimization problem. By defining tool efficiency—the ratio of novel information gain to total invocations—we employ a two-stage SFT and RL pipeline to train models in adaptive parallel strategies. Unlike fixed-breadth methods, FuseSearch dynamically adjusts search breadth based on task context, transitioning from exploration to refinement. On SWE-bench Verified, FuseSearch-4B matches SOTA performance (84.7% file-level and 56.4% function-level F1 scores) while being 93.6% faster, using 67.7% fewer turns and 68.9% fewer tokens. Our findings demonstrate that efficiency-aware training inherently boosts quality by eliminating noisy, redundant signals, enabling high-performance, low-cost localization agents. Code: https://github.com/sxthunder/FuseSearch