Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven rapid progress in autonomous agents, yet standard evaluations remain confined to static task solving. An emerging frontier is harness evolution---the agent's capacity to autonomously optimize its own operating harness.
arXiv:2505. 20161v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Effective generalization in language models depends critically on the diversity of their training data.
By Jaehun Jung, Seungju Han, Ximing Lu, Skyler Hallinan, David Acuna, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Mostafa Patwary, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro, Yejin Choi
arXiv:2509. 24256v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The pretrain-transfer paradigm, which underpins the success of large language models (LLMs), has demonstrated the immense power of creating foundation models that learn generalizable representations from vast datasets.
By Yunhao Liang, Pujun Zhang, Yuan Qu, Jingyuan Yang, Shaochong Lin, Zuo-jun Max Shen
arXiv:2509. 08269v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated with evolutionary computation to support optimization tasks.
By Yisong Zhang, Ran Cheng, Guoxing Yi, Kay Chen Tan
arXiv:2602. 03542v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are trained and tested extensively on symbolic representations such as code and graphs, yet real-world user tasks are often specified in natural language.
By Fangru Lin, Valentin Hofmann, Xingchen Wan, Weixing Wang, Zifeng Ding, Anthony G. Cohn, Janet B. Pierrehumbert
arXiv:2606. 30704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel across a wide range of tasks, yet their instance-specific solutions often lack the structural consistency needed for reliable deployment.
By Gan Luo, Zihan Qin, Bin Dong, Wotao Yin
arXiv:2607. 10127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evolutionary program search guided by Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for automated scientific discovery.
By Xuanzhou Chen, Taoli Cheng
arXiv:2506. 02594v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to synthesize heuristic programs, yet most existing pipelines optimize solvers against fixed benchmark distributions.
By Ruibo Duan, Yuxin Liu, Haoran Ye, Xinyao Dong, Zhiqiang Xu, Chenglin Fan
arXiv:2508. 20330v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering.
By Zohair Shafi, Serdar Kadioglu
arXiv:2608. 12391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph reasoning provides a promising testbed for evaluating the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), as graph instances can be programmatically generated, structurally controlled, and naturally scaled to long-input settings.
By Fali Wang, Ali Al-Lawati, Iliyas Bektas, Jinxuan Fang, Alek Melenski, Tianxiang Zhao, Yao Ma, Suhang Wang
arXiv:2606. 01286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid progress of frontier large language models has led to widespread benchmark saturation, limiting the ability of existing datasets to differentiate model capabilities or provide useful training signal.
By Yangzhen Wu, Aaron J. Li, Wenjie Ma, Li Cao, Ziheng Zhou, Mert Cemri, Shu Liu, Yuran Xiu, Chenxiao Yan, Haikun Zhao, Bin Yu, Ion Stoica, Dawn Song
arXiv:2606. 24965v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning about relational structures remains a significant challenge for neural models, particularly when they must systematically apply learned knowledge to problem instances that are harder than those seen in training.
By Anirban Das, Joanne Boisson, Irtaza Khalid, Sumita Garai, Steven Schockaert