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Maohao Ran

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Preprint Sep 2026

A Theory of Reliable Self-Evolution for Agent Harnesses

In harness self-evolution, agents modify their own prompts, code, tools, and orchestration while keeping the underlying language model fixed. Recent work has shown that agents can improve themselves in response to task failures and achieve substantial performance gains. However, gains on failed tasks do not automatical...

Qi Cai, Yong-Gang Zhang, Jun Nie et al. · 2 citations · ⚡2

Preprint Aug 2026

Execution-grounded evaluation reveals hidden failures in language-model calculations for environmental science

AtmosCoder-Bench is introduced, an execution-grounded benchmark that makes the calculation process visible, and finds that multiple-choice formats inflate measured accuracy by at least 12 percentage points.

Mao-Hao Ran, Chendong Ma, Yanting Zhang et al. · 0 citations

Jul 2026

A Control Theory of Predictability in Latent World Models

It is proved that the planner's suboptimality is bounded by twice this discrepancy between the predicted and the true plan-cost at the plan the planner commits to, whereas the data-averaged prediction error neither bounds nor tracks it.

Hanzhe You, Yonggang Zhang, Maohao Ran et al. · arXiv.org · 2 citations