Repeated evaluation can estimate a benchmark score accurately while still requiring replication to certify narrow uncertainty. We characterize that requirement on a fixed grid of $M$ tasks with $L$ binary paths per task under the hard budget $(M+t)K$, where each path costs at most $K$ responses or episodes.
arXiv:2606. 29654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent deliberation among LLMs can improve reasoning, but deployment requires deciding when the current answer is reliable enough to act on and when it should be escalated to human review.
By Mengdie Flora Wang, Haochen Xie, Guanghui Wang, Devin Zhang, Jae Oh Woo
Repeated-sampling evaluations increasingly extrapolate pass@k far beyond the number n of samples collected per problem. We show that, in the pooled/random-task conditional-Binomial model, fixed-n succ...
arXiv:2609.09245v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Repeated-sampling evaluations increasingly extrapolate pass@k far beyond the number n of samples collected per problem. We show that, in the pooled/ran...
By Pranav Singh, Prashant Singh
arXiv:2607. 26253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is bottlenecked by rollout generation, yet many sampled prompts produce saturated groups (all responses correct or all incorrect) whose zero reward variance yields no policy-gradient signal.
By Pixel Nomand, Elena Voss, Marcus Hale, Sofia Reyes
arXiv:2608. 06362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deciding which of two agents is stronger means playing games until skill outweighs luck, and every game costs money, model inference, or expert time.
By Boning Li, Yu Chen, Longbo Huang
arXiv:2606. 15877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) improves large language models' performance in math and symbolic reasoning.
By Alex Bogdan
arXiv:2607. 13034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly automate multi-step engineering and informatics workflows, yet they rarely ask how much effort a task actually requires.
By Junjie Yin, Xinyu Feng
arXiv:2607. 12216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent and memory-augmented LLM systems often place coordination content, shared state, prior discussion, tool outputs, summaries, and role instructions, inside the same finite prompt used for the current task.
By Brenda Lelis, Rodrigo Cabral-Carvalho
The paper introduces the concept of task‑conditioned active observability, defining the minimal interaction cost needed for an autonomous agent to identify task‑relevant states while guaranteeing safe abstention. It formalizes this complexity, proving that task‑predictive equivalence yields a unique minimal sufficient quotient that preserves complexity and eliminates unnecessary distinctions. The authors present theoretical characterizations for deterministic and noisy regimes, and demonstrate a certified observer that reduces sensor usage and model steps while maintaining zero false acceptances in extensive high‑dimensional trials.
By Linzhe Zhang, Changming Xu
arXiv:2609.38096v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Policies with similar mean returns can differ sharply in rare failures, yet estimating lower-tail conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) accurately can requi...
By Pauline Bourigault, Xiaotong Ji, Matthieu Zimmer, Rasul Tutunov, Haitham Bou-Ammar
The paper introduces TEAM-Design, a rule that assigns two replay probabilities to each task—one for a human-only replay and one for an agent-only replay—based on how difficult it is to predict the missing baseline outcome and the cost of replay. It addresses the challenge of deciding whether to keep a human-AI workflow or replace it with a single actor when only one outcome can be observed after deployment. The authors prove that TEAM-Design solves the budgeted design problem and controls error rates, and demonstrate its effectiveness on clinical and coding benchmarks, noting it excels when one comparison is clearly harder than the other.
By Hamed Khosravi, Xiaoming Huo