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Building the Harness Automatically: Self-Play in Code Distills a Text Harness for Black-Box Optimization

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arXiv:2609.09468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can an agent learn a numerical search strategy through executable practice and then transfer that strategy as text? We study low-budget black-box optimization, where unaided language models remain well below strong classical optimizers. During develop…

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  1. 2026-09-10 04:00 · arXiv cs.LG
    Building the Harness Automatically: Self-Play in Code Distills a Text Harness for Black-Box Optimization

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