Collaborating agents beat Best-of-N for research tasks, new paper shows
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-09-21
Dimitris Papail explains his team's project, started months before the HuggingFace incident: early experiments showed collaborating agents clearly beat Best-of-N sampling on research-like tasks, with the HF incident demonstrating how dramatic such collaboration results can be. The paper explores less dramatic but fun applications, such as compressing MNIST.
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