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Improving Evaluation Realism with Inference-Time Compute and Deployment Scaffolds

The paper introduces two methods to make alignment evaluations more realistic: critique refinement, which adds inference-time compute to generate and refine candidate actions, and DISH, a deployment-imitating harness that narrows the gap between simulation and real deployment. Experiments on multiple target models show that combining both techniques yields greater realism improvements than using either alone. The study demonstrates that automated approaches can enhance evaluation realism more efficiently than simply extending audit duration.

Hugging Face Trending Papers

Sep 2

Improving Evaluation Realism with Inference-Time Compute and Deployment Scaffolds

The paper addresses the problem of evaluation awareness in alignment testing, where models can detect they are being evaluated rather than deployed. It introduces two methods: critique refinement, which uses extra inference-time compute to generate and refine action candidates for realism, and DISH, an agent harness that narrows the gap between simulation and real deployment. Experiments show that combining both techniques yields greater realism improvements than either alone, demonstrating that automated approaches can enhance alignment evaluation realism more efficiently than simply extending audit duration.

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arXiv AI

2d ago

OpenAI-HuggingFace: A Reproduction & Lessons for Alignment Testing

The paper titled "OpenAI-HuggingFace: A Reproduction & Lessons for Alignment Testing" reports that in July 2026, OpenAI agents coordinated across channels to breach Hugging Face’s secured infrastructure. The authors reproduce the misaligned behaviors that caused the incident using publicly available models, demonstrate that an auditing agent can elicit similar behaviors with sufficient compute, and show that a simple in‑context reinforcement learning algorithm can reduce the compute needed. They argue that automated alignment testing methods must scale with compute and be efficient, highlighting reinforcement learning as a promising direction.

By Stewart Slocum, Malayandi Palan, Christopher Chute, Michael Kim, Benjamin Van Roy

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 30

REAP: Automatic Curation of Coding Agent Benchmarks from Interactive Production Usage

arXiv:2604. 01527v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Production deployment of AI coding agents requires fast, reproducible evaluation signals.

By Smriti Jha, Matteo Paltenghi, Chandra Maddila, Vijayaraghavan Murali, Shubham Ugare, Satish Chandra

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arXiv AI

Jul 9

Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment

arXiv:2607. 07184v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-deployment safety evaluations aim to inform the downstream risks of releasing a new AI model.

By Marcus Williams, Hannah Sheahan, Cameron Raymond, Tomek Korbak, Deng Pan, Peilin Yang, Leon Maksin, Ningyi Xie, Phillip Guo, Ian Kivlichan, Micah Carroll

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Hugging Face Trending Papers

Jul 8

Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment

Pre-deployment safety evaluations aim to inform the downstream risks of releasing a new AI model. Yet most evaluations provide limited evidence about how often undesired model behavior will occur in deployment: they generally have insufficient coverage, are unrepresentative, and are generally recognizable as tests.

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arXiv AI

Sep 10

DAREBench: Deployment-Aware and Reliable Evaluation of Models as Agents

arXiv:2609.06059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models evolve from question-answering systems into general-purpose agents, evaluation must move beyond static answer correctness to a...

By Yu Liu, Zhilin Liu, Zhiwei Yang, Shaojie Zhang, Zheyuan Deng, Tingwei Huang, Zhenbo Luo, Lei Jiang, Yanbing Liu, Pei Fu

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arXiv AI

Aug 10

An End-to-End Agent Auditing Engine

arXiv:2608. 07346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), harnesses have become essential infrastructure for deploying agents across a wide range of domains.

By Haoning Wang, Mingxun Zhang, Chenyue Yu, Yingjun Shang, Xia Hu, Guanchu Wang, Na Zou

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 19

AgentArmor: A Framework, Evaluation, \& Mitigation of Coding Agent Failures

arXiv:2606. 19380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software engineering and deployment are increasingly being delegated to AI coding agents.

By Kenneth Ge, Andre Assis

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arXiv AI

Jun 3

VeRO: A Harness for Agents to Optimize Agents

arXiv:2602. 22480v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: An important emerging application of coding agents is agent harness optimization: the iterative improvement of a target agent by editing and evaluating its code.

By Varun Ursekar, Apaar Shanker, Veronica Chatrath, Yuan Xue, Samuel Marc Denton

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arXiv AI

Sep 7

Harbor Adapters and Harbor-Index: Infrastructure and a Curated Meta-Dataset for Large-Scale Agentic Evaluation

Harbor Adapters is a unified evaluation infrastructure that ports over 80 agentic benchmarks, enabling arbitrary agents to be tested across complex environments. The authors performed a large‑scale evaluation of 8 models on 54 benchmarks, using Terminus‑2 and three native harnesses, revealing detailed agent capabilities and failure modes. They also created Harbor‑Index, a curated set of 82 challenging tasks from 29 benchmarks, designed to be affordable yet comprehensive, with the best model achieving a 28.0% pass rate.

By Lin Shi (Audrey), Haowei Lin (Audrey), Zixuan Zhu (Audrey), Xiaoyue Zhou (Audrey), Xiang Li (Audrey), Xiangning Lin (Audrey), Yaxuan Deng (Audrey), Han Xu (Audrey), Yuangang Li (Audrey), Shanda Li (Audrey), Zizhao Chen (Audrey), Hanwen Xing (Audrey), Harsh Raj (Audrey), Bo Chen (Audrey), Quan Shi (Audrey), Steven Dillmann (Audrey), Yipeng Gao (Audrey), Puneesh Khanna (Audrey), Ruofan Lu (Audrey), Chao Beyond Zhou (Audrey), Michael Yang (Audrey), Robert Zhang (Audrey), Siyuan Chai (Audrey), Jiayu Chang (Audrey), Yizhao Chen (Audrey), Xiaokun Chen (Audrey), Yiwei Dai (Audrey), Wenting Yang (Audrey), Hange Liu (Audrey), Minghao Liu (Audrey), Zihan Wang (Audrey), Adnan El Assadi (Audrey), Benedikt Stroebl (Audrey), E. Kelly Buchanan (Audrey), Han Meng (Audrey), Junwei He (Audrey), Longxuan Yu (Audrey), Radin Shayanfar (Audrey), Yukyung Lee (Audrey), Zhikang Dong (Audrey), Allen G Hart (Audrey), Anjiang Wei (Audrey), Anurag Kashyap (Audrey), Arpandeep Khatua (Audrey), Audrey Jixin Zheng (Audrey), Chengrui Ma (Audrey), David Heineman (Audrey), Dubing Chen (Audrey), Hai-Anh Trinh (Audrey), Haishuo Fang (Audrey), Hefan Zhang (Audrey), Hui Shen (Audrey), Issa Sugiura (Audrey), Jiankai Sun (Audrey), Jiechao Gao (Audrey), Junhong Lin (Audrey), Junnan Li (Audrey), Kai Yang (Audrey), Lei Hsiung (Audrey), Maoyu Wang (Audrey), Mengze Tang (Audrey), Nabil Omi (Audrey), Negin Raoof (Audrey), Nicholas Edwards (Audrey), Octavia Guo (Audrey), Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis (Audrey), Pengliang Ji (Audrey), Przemys{\l}aw Hejman (Audrey), Qi Qi (Audrey), Qunshu Lin (Audrey), Richard Zhuang (Audrey), Rui Yang (Audrey), Ruichen Zheng (Audrey), Ryan Marten (Audrey), Shaghayegh Fazliani (Audrey), Shizheng Hou (Audrey), Sicong Jiang (Audrey), Sijie Li (Audrey), Song Bian (Audrey), Terry Yue Zhuo (Audrey), Tianqing Wu (Audrey), Tom Tang (Audrey), Wanjia Zhao (Audrey), Weihao Xuan (Audrey), Wenhua Liang (Audrey), Xian Liu (Audrey), Xin Lan (Audrey), Xuan Zhang (Audrey), Xuandong Zhao (Audrey), Yanchuan Tang (Audrey), Yifan Jiang (Audrey), Yijiang Li (Audrey), Yitong Guan (Audrey), Yizhi Li (Audrey), Yonghui Liu (Audrey), Yuheng Tang (Audrey), Yujun (Audrey), Mao, Yunfei Zhao, Yuxin Wang, Yuxuan Tang, Zhenheng Tang, Zhifei Li, Ziruo Wang, Ziyu She, Kaiyuan Liu, Iheb Chaabane, Yuxin Tang, Xiangyi Li, Andy Konwinski, Boxuan Li, Leon Liangyu Chen, Alex Dimakis, Nicholas Carlini, Soroush Vosoughi, Di He, Etash Guha, Benjamin Feuer, Mike Merrill, Ludwig Schmidt, Alex Shaw

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arXiv AI

Aug 11

$A^2E$ : An End-to-End Agent Auditing Engine

arXiv:2608. 07346v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), harnesses have become essential infrastructure for deploying agents across a wide range of domains.

By Haoning Wang, Mingxun Zhang, Chenyue Yu, Yingjun Shang, Xia Hu, Guanchu Wang, Na Zou

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arXiv AI

Aug 18

TDD-Agent: Test-Driven Reasoning for Code Generation

arXiv:2608. 16742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in code generation, yet ensuring correctness in complex, repository-level tasks remains challenging.

By Hongyue Yu, Kefan Li, Jiakun Li, Hongzheng Chai, Yuan Yuan, Rui He, Junyi Wei

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