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Bad Genius: Counterfactual-Guided Harness Evolution Beyond Task-Specific Shortcuts

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arXiv:2609.18366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable agent evaluation is complicated by automatic harness optimization, which repeatedly uses a released benchmark $B_{\mathrm{rel}}$ to guide a Proposer that edits prompts, memory, retrieval, tools, and control code around a fixed target agent.…

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  1. 2026-09-17 04:00 · arXiv stat.ML
    Bad Genius: Counterfactual-Guided Harness Evolution Beyond Task-Specific Shortcuts

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