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RRSI: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- RRSI method automates LLM agent harness optimization by iteratively editing prompts, tools, and control flow while using regularization to prevent overfitting to training tasks.
- Why it matters
- Relevant for engineers building LLM-based agents who want better generalization across different task types without manual prompt engineering.
- Watch out
- Paper shows 4.7 point gains on out-of-distribution benchmarks versus 14.1 on training tasks, suggesting regularization helps but generalization gaps remain significant.
- agent
- llm
- prompt
- benchmark
- self-improv
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