arXiv AI
Aug 11

From Trajectories to Evidence: Auditable Experimental Records for Industrial Research Agents

arXiv:2608. 05235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research agents increasingly conduct multi-round machine-learning experiments in industrial recommendation settings and retain the resulting trajectories to guide later decisions.

By Zijie Zhuang, Changxin Lao, Pengbo Xu, Hanwen Xu, Ruochen Yang, Yingzhi He, Peng Zhang, Jiangxia Cao, Yusheng Huang, Guohong Mu, Jian Liang, Ruiming Tang, Shuang Yang, Zhaojie Liu, Wenwu Ou, Kun Gai
arXiv AI
Sep 28

CARGO: Context-Aware Retrieval-Gated Evaluation of Agentic AI in Production

CARGO is a framework for evaluating agentic AI systems in production that addresses the problem of reference-instance divergence (RID), where reference-based judges penalize correct answers that involve different entity identifiers. It treats retrieved references as procedural exemplars, grounds judgments in the live instance’s context, assigns a three-way status to claims, and gates evaluation by retrieval confidence. Using the CARGO-Bench diagnostic suite, CARGO eliminates false penalties and improves discrimination while revealing a limitation in detecting procedural corruptions.

By Mukul Chhabra, Shail Patel, Luigi Medrano
arXiv AI
Oct 9

What Output-Only Review Cannot Verify: Study Contracts for Research Agents

The paper introduces study contracts that bind declared experimental choices, run obligations, and claim scope to recorded execution evidence, aiming to distinguish contract-relative verification from scientific truth. A diagnostic using eight self‑authored clean/mutated pairs shows that a deterministic checker can detect all registered mutations when the fault‑specific rule is applied to approved and executed objects. In a broader test involving eighteen judge aliases and 144 mutated evaluation cases, 104 cases received defect flags, while the rest were abstentions or failures, illustrating the challenges of an information‑asymmetric development setting.

By Eitan Waks, Ben Glocker
arXiv AI
Sep 17

EvolveTrade: Experience-Driven Policy Refinement for Self-Evolving LLM Trading Agents

EvolveTrade is a self‑evolving framework that treats the system prompt of a tool‑using LLM trading agent as a text‑parameterized policy. After each update interval, a Policy Agent revises this policy using accumulated decision traces and portfolio feedback while keeping the backbone LLM fixed, allowing the agent to refine its information‑acquisition and portfolio‑construction procedures over time. Experiments across multiple market regimes and two LLM backbones show that EvolveTrade often improves Sharpe Ratio and Cumulative Return over fixed‑policy baselines, with behavioral analyses indicating increased code‑mediated analysis and regime‑relevant computations.

By Sehee Kim, Yumin Choi, Minki Kang, Sung Ju Hwang