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Co-Evolving Harnesses and Models: On-Policy Correction Helps Weaker Models Catch Up Where Imitation Fails
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Researchers developed an on-policy correction method that lets smaller models match stronger models' performance on enterprise tasks by co-evolving system prompts and fine-tuning together.
- Why it matters
- Teams building cost-effective AI agents for domain-specific enterprise work need better ways to adapt smaller models without expensive frontier model inference.
- Watch out
- The method was tested on seven enterprise tasks with specific model pairs; generalization to other domains, model sizes, or task types remains unclear.
- agent
- agentic
- prompt
- fine-tun
The patterns behind this
- Agentic Context Engineering (Evolving Playbook)
- Corrective RAG (CRAG)
- Eval-Driven Development (Agent CI)
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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