From score forecasting to preference ranking: picking which of 15 ideas to run
anirudhg9119 · x · 2026-09-01
The motivation: generating a new ML idea or code change takes minutes, but testing it may require hours or days of GPU compute. If an agent proposes 15 ideas but can run only one, progress hinges on choosing the right one. Instead of predicting the exact score an experiment will achieve (a hard forecasting problem), the work reframes it as a preference problem: given several candidate solutions plus the research history, rank which candidate is most worth executing next.
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