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arXiv cs.CLPaper

The Last Remote Sensing Model Built by Humans? Casting Any Earth Observation Task as Recursive Self-Improvement

This is a concrete demonstration of agents replacing human model builders in a real domain. The shift from task-specific expertise to verifiable harnesses is significant: it means EO model development can scale without domain specialists. For builders: if you're working in remote sensing or similar domains with clear verification signals, this suggests you should be writing harnesses, not training loops. The label efficiency is also notable for cost-sensitive applications.

arXiv cs.AIPaper

False Frontiers: Diagnosing and Mitigating Co-Cheating in Self-Evolving Search Agents

Self-improving agents have a real failure mode: the loop reinforces consensus even when that consensus is wrong. Multi-sample verification catches some of it but costs six extra generations per candidate, which defeats the purpose of self-improvement. This is a genuine problem for anyone building agents that generate and solve their own training data. The paper identifies the issue better than it solves it, which is the right priority for a warning paper.