3 papers
cs.CL2026
False Frontiers: Diagnosing and Mitigating Co-Cheating in Self-Evolving Search Agents
Meijia Chen, Hao Li, Zheng Lu +12
Self-evolving search agents build their own training curricula by jointly optimizing a proposer that generates questions and a solver that answers them. This closed loop introduces…
cs.SE2026
Zero2Repo: Can Coding Agents Build Repositories from Scratch?
Pei Yang, Tianyu Shi, Yuhang Yao +23
Coding agents are increasingly asked to build software rather than patch it, yet benchmarks for from-scratch repository construction are mostly limited to a single language and dep…
cs.LG2026
The Teacher Is a Direction, Not a Destination: Extrapolating RL-Induced Representation Residuals in On-Policy Distillation
Hao Li, MeiJia Chen, Weijie Ren +4
On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student to match the teacher's next-token distributions on the student's own trajectories and has yielded substantial empirical gains. General…