@article{stepcodereasoneraligningcodereasoningwit,
  title = {StepCodeReasoner: Aligning Code Reasoning with Stepwise Execution Traces via Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Hao Wang and Rui Li and Lei Sha and Jie M. Zhang},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.11922},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11922},
}