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cs.CL2026
PAST-Bench: Benchmarking the Foundations of Recursive Self-Improvement in Personal Agents
Shuhan Xue, Zixin Ding, Yichen Shen +6
Recursive self-improvement requires agents to turn accumulated experience into better future behavior. Personal AI agents offer a concrete setting for studying this capability beca…
cs.CL2026
Scaling Textual Gradients via Sampling-Based Momentum
Zixin Ding, Junyuan Hong, Zhan Shi +6
LLM-based prompt optimization, which uses LLM-provided ``textual gradients'' (feedback) to refine prompts, has emerged as an effective method for automatic prompt engineering. Howe…
cs.CL2026
For-Value: Efficient Forward-Only Data Valuation for finetuning LLMs and VLMs
Wenlong Deng, Qi Zeng, Jiaming Zhang +5
Data valuation is essential for enhancing the transparency and accountability of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs). However, existing methods typically…