arXiv:2609.37356v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generating optimization instances that are both feasible and computationally challenging is crucial for benchmarking solvers and training learning-base...
By Jitin Singla, Parikshit Pareek, Pratik Jawanpuria, Parag Singla
EvalResearchBench (ERB) is a benchmark that tests whether AI agents can autonomously design evaluation tasks for recursive self‑improvement. In ERB, a researcher agent selects or synthesizes tasks, builds graders, and refines them through pilot tests before producing a final evaluator that runs within fixed time and API budgets. Experiments with nine researchers and thirteen candidate models show that the best automated evaluators achieve about 75% concordance with target benchmarks, below the 91% ceiling set by target disagreements, and that human‑designed task samples still outperform many automated approaches.
By Yaolun Zhang, Tianyi Xu, Yujie Zhao, Jishen Zhao, Qingyun Wu, Huazheng Wang
arXiv:2606. 27369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for training LLMs typically rely on ground-truth answers to assign rewards, limiting their applicability to tasks where the ground-truth solution is unknown.
By Yingyu Lin, Qiyue Gao, Nikki Lijing Kuang, Xunpeng Huang, Kun Zhou, Tongtong Liang, Zhewei Yao, Yi-An Ma, Yuxiong He
arXiv:2606. 14211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are increasingly deployed as agents that interact with external environments and observe feedback such as execution results, error messages, and tool outputs.
By Yinglun Zhu
arXiv:2605. 28556v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As agent capabilities advance, existing benchmarks, such as $\tau^2$-Bench, are becoming increasingly saturated.
By Tomer Keren, Nitay Calderon, Asaf Yehudai, Yotam Perlitz, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Roi Reichart
arXiv:2606. 01667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling has become a major way to improve large language model reasoning, but its orchestration has remained designer-engineered: a fixed sample budget, a fixed refinement loop, a fixed scoring rule, or a fixed search policy decides how compute is spent, leaving the model in charge of solving but not of orchestration.
By Peijia Qin, Qi Cao, Pengtao Xie
arXiv:2606. 18284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The limiting resource for training agents via reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly frontier task supply: valid, solvable tasks just difficult enough to train the current model.
By Lorenz Wolf, Connor Watts, Roger Creus Castanyer, Geoffrey Bradway, Maxwill Lin, Augustine N. Mavor-Parker, Matthew Daborn-Sargent
arXiv:2610.18760v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Test-time scaling for large language models (LLMs) can involve generating multiple candidate solutions for selection or revising an earlier attempt. To...
By Zheye Deng, Sha Li, Changlong Yu, Xin Liu, Qin Lu, Priyanka Nigam, Yangqiu Song
AgentJudgeBench is a new benchmark that evaluates the reliability of large language model (LLM) judges on agentic tool‑calling tasks involving workflow directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). It contains 3,808 instances across six DAG topologies and three difficulty tiers, tested with five generators (3B–70B open‑weight models and GPT‑5.4) and six judges (20B to frontier scale) under both paired‑with‑and‑without‑ground‑truth conditions. The study finds that judge alignment degrades with task difficulty, ground‑truth exposure can sometimes hurt alignment, and structured evaluation rubrics provide modest improvements, revealing a structural ceiling that model capacity alone cannot surpass.
By Abhigya Verma, Amit Kumar Saha, Seganrasan Subramanian, Sai Harshitha Aluru
SAILOR is a proof‑of‑concept system that helps language models translate natural‑language optimization problem descriptions into executable code by detecting missing numerical values. It asks users targeted follow‑up questions, prioritizing them based on uncertainty and solver estimates of impact, and updates the model before returning a solution. In tests on 1,723 benchmark instances, SAILOR achieved exact objective‑value agreement between 27.0% and 87.6% while asking an average of 1.4–5.7 questions per instance.
By Shaghayegh Sadeghi, Stephen L. Smith, David C. Del Rey Fern'andez
TestJack is a scalable framework that audits large language model (LLM) coding agents by generating new tests for each trial, focusing on prompt requirements that may be violated. It keeps only the tests passed by the ground‑truth patch and re‑examines failures, providing replayable evidence for each confirmed error. In experiments across six model backends and five benchmarks, TestJack found that 34.4% of trials deemed correct actually violated task requirements, reducing the overall resolution rate from 50.6% to 33.2%.
By Shuangjie Yao, Hao Wang, Koushik Sen, Simin Chen, Baishakhi Ray, Dawn Song
The paper introduces HOA (Humanize Olympiad Agent), a workflow that orchestrates multiple LLM agent sessions via reviewer feedback, a structured wiki, and a verifier to tackle olympiad problems. Using GPT‑5.6 Sol, HOA achieves perfect scores on the IMO, IPhO, and IOI 2026, near‑full marks on the IChO 2026, and solves all 672 PutnamBench problems, while ranking first on the Lean‑Eval leaderboard. With open models like Kimi‑K3, HOA still attains full scores on major olympiads and a gold‑level IChO score, showing that systematic feedback can close gaps between closed‑source and open‑source agents.
By Zhengyang Zhang, Jing Xiong, Hongzhou Lin, Juihui Chung, Zijian Zhang, Song Han, Sihao Liu, Ligeng Zhu