Beyond the Need for Speed: Energy-Aware Code Generation via Simulation-Guided Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607.04577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Code models strictly prioritize functional correctness, leaving software energy efficiency as an unoptimized byproduct. Training models to generate energy-efficient code requires reproducible feedback at scale, which physical hardware measurement cannot reliably provide due to variance. In this paper, we replace hardware profiling with a deterministic architectural simulation harness to build Green Tea, a corpus of $3.5$ million evaluations across $1{,}474$ C++ problems. We train an energy-aware code model via supervised fine-tuning on energy-con
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