What it measures

517 visual software engineering issues (UI rendering, charting, front-end layout, diagram specs) across JS/TS/HTML/CSS repos.

Reading the measurement

Look beyond a plausible code sample to the executable artifact. Tests, repository context, language coverage and time limits shape the result. Separate first-attempt correctness from success after debugging, retries or agent assistance.

Published evaluation

The linked publication documents the task and scoring procedure. Model results retain the source’s evaluation setting, native score units and available uncertainty.

Published evaluation

Resolved tasks; SWE-bench Multimodal · original baselines. Model configurations and missing observations follow the original publication.

Where this fits in an evaluation suite

The agent wrapper is part of the system. Pin tools, dependencies, timeouts, tests, and the repository revision. Compare contest coding separately from repository maintenance.

Start with a capability hypothesis, then choose a second test with a different failure mode. Keep the checkpoint, reasoning effort, agent tools, sampling policy, and scoring procedure fixed when measuring a training intervention. Record failures and missing outputs in the denominator.

A reproducible comparison

Resolved tasks; SWE-bench Multimodal · original baselines. Model configurations and missing observations follow the original publication.

Publish the exact run configuration, item coverage, score units, and available uncertainty. If a source supplies only an aggregate or a single run, preserve that limit. A new model name or a rounded score alone does not establish a capability improvement.

PRIMARY EVIDENCE & FURTHER READING

  1. SWE-bench Multimodal: Do AI Systems Generalize to Visual Software Domains? — published result table ↗

    John Yang, Carlos E. Jimenez, Alex L. Zhang, Kilian Lieret, Joyce Yang, Xindi Wu et al. · 2024

    All 13 authors

    John Yang, Carlos E. Jimenez, Alex L. Zhang, Kilian Lieret, Joyce Yang, Xindi Wu, Ori Press, Niklas Muennighoff, Gabriel Synnaeve, Karthik R. Narasimhan, Diyi Yang, Sida I. Wang, Ofir Press

  2. SWE-bench Multimodal — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

Reviewed 2026-10-26. Explanation and interpretation by RLTasks. Benchmark ownership remains with its original authors.