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Where Should a Stuck Agent Spend Its Next Tokens? Causal Attribution of Inference-Time Resources
Saiyue Lyu, Jerrold Huang, Yunbei Zhang +4
Inference-time scaling is often treated as a token-budget problem, but a failed coding agent can seek qualitatively different resources: computation, information, or feedback. We i…
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Safety Must Survive Self-Improvement: Why Failures Persist and How Agents Recover
Yunbei Zhang, Janet Wang, Saiyue Lyu +5
Recursive self-improvement (RSI) allows agents to carry useful changes across generations. Maintaining safety across these generations involves both preventing unsafe behavior from…