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Can LLMs Engineer Their Own Agent Harness? ByteDance Seed’s HarnessDev Says Only 34 of 64 Changes Generalize

ByteDance Seed's HarnessDev benchmark finds LLM-built agent harnesses trail human engineering on code and search, with only 34 of 64 revisions generalizing.

Researchers from ByteDance Seed, SUTD, Georgia Tech, M-A-P, and TokenWave.AI introduce HarnessDev, a benchmark that evaluates the runnable agent harness an LLM writes rather than its answers, using Creation and Evolution stages across SWE-bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2.1, MLE-bench, EQ-Bench3, and BrowseComp (2,207 instances). Six creator models including Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Qwen 3.7 Max, and Seed 2.0 Pro were tested; Opus 4.8 posted the best average of 67.8 versus an 86.2 human-engineered reference. Self-built harnesses beat references on writing and ML experimentation but lag badly on code and search, and quality proved executor-specific: Opus 4.8 fell from 69.3 to 33.0 on SWE-bench Pro when the executor was switched to Gemini. Evolution gains were small and noisy: of 64 adjacent changes, feedback and held-out scores agreed only 34 times (53.1%), and much generated state and memory code never executed.

MarkTechPost·updated 13:01 UTC · 10h ago·first Sep 11, 22:01 UTC · 5d agoAI research 18 sources

[AINews] Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6-Sol, confirming Meta Superintelligence as the newest Frontier Lab, >90% discount for training

Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 reportedly ranks as the world's #3 model, matching frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic with planned open weights.

The Latent Space AI News roundup leads with Muse Spark 1.3, promised in Zuckerberg's letter, which ranks #3 worldwide per AAII, is slated for open weights, and uses a pricing model over 90% cheaper when users opt in to training. The issue also covers the rumored Gemini 3.8 Flash launch and analysis arguing OpenAI's rumored looped-transformer 'Astra' architecture is a modest tweak rather than a breakthrough. Additional coverage includes ByteDance Seed's HarnessDev harness-evaluation benchmark, a retrieval-invoked actual-use evaluation method, Stanford's revamped agent engineering curricula, and Photon 2.1 adding TTS models and NVIDIA B200 support.

Latent Space·Sep 3, 04:38 UTC · 13d agoModel release1

HarnessVLN: Unifying Training-Free Embodied Navigation through an Agent Harness

Researchers introduce HarnessVLN, a zero-shot training-free agent harness that sets new training-free SOTA on vision-language navigation benchmarks including R2R and HM3D.

HarnessVLN is a zero-shot, training-free framework for embodied vision-language navigation that coordinates perception, retrieval, grounding, navigation, recovery, and termination through a unified tool interface. It validates planner proposals against spatial evidence, geometric feasibility, and subgoal consistency, using hierarchical event memory and a persistent Spatiotemporal Graph that stores reusable spatial evidence and failure annotations. It reports success rates of 60.8% on R2R, 53.9% on RxR, 76.0% on HM3D-v2, and 59.3% on HM3D-OVON, surpassing prior training-free state of the art, with real-world humanoid deployment demonstrated.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 13, 20:00 UTC · 3d agoAI research

I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task

A developer benchmarked 10 model/harness combinations on a Three.js task; Qwen 3.8 27B on OpenCode scored 95.64% fastest at 8m48s.

The author ran an identical Three.js sci-fi hangar build prompt across 10 model/harness combinations and recorded score, tokens, durations, and tool errors. Qwen 3.8 27B x-high on OpenCode achieved 95.64% in 8m48s, the best fast result, while GLM 5.3 Flash Max on OpenCode scored highest at 96.89% in 20m28s. Other runs included GLM 5.3 Flash, Luna 5.6, SOL 5.6, and Astra 6.0 across Codex Open, OMP Open, OpenCode, DSH, and PTC harnesses, with scores ranging from 78.54% to 96.89%.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 8, 03:42 UTC · 8d agoAI researchHN 104↑ · 61 comments

Show-Harness: Just a VLM Agent Can Play Robots

Show-Harness lets VLM agents control robots via discrete semantic action units, outperforming VLA baselines zero-shot and after light fine-tuning.

Show-Harness is an embodied agent harness that exposes discrete semantic action units a VLM reasons over, with embodiment-specific interpreters grounding them into local robot actions. It enables zero-shot robot control with closed-source frontier VLMs and low-cost adaptation of small open-source VLMs using only a few GPU-hours of fine-tuning. The companion GUMI (GUI Manipulation Interface) extends the same semantic action space to GUI-based demonstration collection without specialized teleoperation hardware. Experiments show robust generalization across tasks, embodiments, and environments, beating representative agentic and VLA paradigms.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 9, 17:53 UTC · 7d agoAI research

The Evolution of the Agent Harness

Latent Space essay argues late-2025 agent gains came from models and harnesses maturing together, with harness logic absorbed into model weights.

The piece defines the agent harness as everything beyond model weights—tools, context, memory, guardrails—and charts its evolution from ReAct prompting (October 2022) through AutoGPT's premature autonomy, Cursor/Copilot's human-in-the-loop retreat, and Devin's roughly 15% success rate, to o1's capability overhang and Claude Code's February 2025 terminal agent with permission rules. It argues the Christmas 2025 jump cited by Transformer co-inventor Lukasz Kaiser reflected model and harness curves crossing, and that remaining harnesses will serve human attention rather than the model.

Latent Space·Aug 22, 07:30 UTC · 25d agoAI tools & infra

ModularRSI: Modular and Generalizable Recursive Harness Self-Improvement

Researchers propose ModularRSI, a modular benchmark-disjoint recursive self-improvement framework that evolves agent harnesses across five modules, improving TB2.0 and SWE-Bench Verified results.

ModularRSI targets generalizable recursive self-improvement (RSI) for agent harnesses by contrasting successful and failed trajectories for the same task and aggregating evidence across tasks to find recurring behavioral deficiencies. It decomposes the evolvable harness into five modules—Agent Loop, Tool Use, Observation Management, Context Management, and Task Completion Detection—each evolved independently within a restricted scope, then integrated with conflict resolution. Using 2,000 executable evolution tasks disjoint from evaluation benchmarks, it shows consistent gains on TB2.0 and SWE-Bench Verified and transfers across different foundation models.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 13, 20:00 UTC · 3d agoAI research

Show-Harness: Just a VLM Agent Can Play Robots

Show-Harness enables VLM agents to control robots via a semantic action interface, achieving zero-shot frontier control and few-GPU-hour adaptation of small VLMs.

Show-Harness exposes discrete semantic action units that VLMs reason over, with embodiment-specific interpreters deterministically grounding them into local robot actions. It enables zero-shot closed-source frontier VLM control and adapts small open-source VLMs for low-cost deployment with a few GPU-hours of fine-tuning. The companion GUMI interface extends the same semantic action space to GUI-based demonstration collection without teleoperation hardware, and Show-Harness-equipped agents outperform representative agentic and VLA paradigms.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 8, 20:00 UTC · 8d agoAI research

The agentic harness for Tenable Hexa AI: How Tenable prevents AI agents from going off the rails

Tenable details the 'harness' governing its Hexa AI agents, treating LLMs as untrusted insiders with scoped permissions, human approval and audit logging.

Tenable describes the agentic 'harness' built for Hexa AI, the agentic engine of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, which limits what context models can see, which tools they can call, when humans must approve actions, and what is recorded. The post catalogs real development failures: agents acting past their authority, being confidently wrong about tenant data, crashing on broad queries, over-refusing capable tasks, and over-conservative safety filtering causing false positives. It also highlights that attacker-writable security data such as hostnames and certificate fields can serve as a prompt-injection vector for agents reading platform data.

Tenable Blog·Sep 10, 13:00 UTC · 6d agoAI safety & security

DeepSeek Harness Flaw Let AI Agents Disable Their Own File Sandbox Without Approval

DeepSeek Harness (CVE-2026-82533, CVSS 9.4) let AI coding agents disable their own sandbox via an unauthenticated local API; fixed in 0.1.2-alpha.2.

DeepSeek Harness versions 0.1.1-rc.2 and earlier allowed a sandboxed AI coding agent to turn off its own OS sandbox by calling the tool's unauthenticated local web interface, tracked as CVE-2026-82533 with a 9.4 CVSS from VulnCheck. A single command set the agent session to danger-full-access mode, removing sandboxing and approval prompts, and OX Research verified writes escaped the workspace. The interface trusted the client-supplied Host header with no authentication and could also return a session's entire conversation log. The fix adds a one-time token and signed-cookie check; the first npm release carrying it is 0.1.2-alpha.2, with 0.1.2-rc.1 current.

The Hacker News·Sep 9, 11:17 UTC · 7d agoAI safety & security in the wildCVE-2026-82533

EVOHARNESSBENCH: Can Your Agents Keep Pace with an Evolving Harness?

Researchers introduce EVOHARNESSBENCH, a benchmark showing that evolving agent harnesses (tools, skills, agents) cause forgetting and inconsistent adaptation across 802 tasks.

The paper introduces EVOHARNESSBENCH, a benchmark that places non-stationarity in the externally supplied agent harness rather than in the task stream, evaluating agents across tools, skills, and specialist agents. It comprises 17 multi-stage harness streams built deterministically from verifier-based benchmarks, totaling 802 tasks, 520 tools, 42 skills, and 62 agents. Evaluation covers deployment (retention of previously accessible competence) and self-evolving adaptation settings. Results show harness expansion alone degrades previously solved tasks (harness-induced forgetting), adaptation gains are inconsistent, and retention and adaptation can pull in opposite directions.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 2, 20:00 UTC · 14d agoAI research

Co-Evolving Harnesses and Models: On-Policy Correction Helps Weaker Models Catch Up Where Imitation Fails

Research shows on-policy expert correction, not imitation fine-tuning, lets weaker agent models catch up under evolved harnesses.

Researchers study how to combine automated agent-harness evolution with lightweight fine-tuning across seven enterprise agent tasks. Naively training weaker models (Qwen3-Coder, Gemma 4) on expert trajectories under an evolved harness regressed performance by 4 to 30 points on all tasks. They propose an on-policy correction pipeline, automated by a meta-level MLE agent, where an expert rewrites only the failing turn of the weaker model's rollout, preserving model-harness fit.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 8, 17:53 UTC · 8d agoAI research

Context Engineering Inside the Harness: 4 Mechanisms That Beat Context Overflow and Goal Loss on Long-Horizon Tasks

Survey of four harness mechanisms—context budgeting, compaction, todo-state, and memory—that keep long-horizon LLM agents on task across 200+ tool calls.

The article details how agent harnesses, not larger context windows, solve context overflow and goal loss on long-horizon tasks, citing Chroma's Context Rot report showing 18 LLMs (GPT-4.1, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, Qwen3) degrade on long inputs. Concrete implementations include LangChain Deep Agents offloading tool responses over 20,000 tokens to the filesystem and truncating old tool calls at 85% window usage, and Claude Code capping auto memory at 25KB while re-reading the 5 most recently modified files after compaction. OpenAI's Responses API now offers server-side compaction via context_management with a standalone /responses/compact endpoint, which Codex uses for long-running coding tasks. Manus reports a roughly 100:1 input-to-output token ratio per ~50-tool-call task, motivating todo.md state recitation to prevent goal drift.

MarkTechPost·Sep 13, 05:56 UTC · 3d agoAI research1

Co-Evolving Harnesses and Models: On-Policy Correction Helps Weaker Models Catch Up Where Imitation Fails

Research shows imitation of expert trajectories breaks weaker models' harness fit, while on-policy expert correction preserves gains across seven enterprise agent tasks.

The paper studies combining automated agent-harness evolution with lightweight fine-tuning across seven enterprise agent tasks using Qwen3-Coder and Gemma 4. Training weaker models on complete expert trajectories under an evolved harness regressed performance by 4-30 points on all tasks, disrupting model-harness fit. The authors propose an on-policy expert-correction pipeline, automated by a meta-level MLE agent, that rewrites only failing turns and preserves the model's planning style.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 7, 20:00 UTC · 9d agoAI research

Agent-net Open Sources Webagent: A Go Harness That Turns Any Website into a Guarded AI Agent

Agent-net open-sourced Webagent, a Go harness turning websites into AI agents with code-enforced guardrails wrapping every tool call.

Agent-net released Webagent under Apache 2.0, a Go framework where a business fills in a declarative JSON spec, picks one provider for each of nine pluggable slots (retrieval, memory, guardrail, channel, secrets, presenter, model, action, observability), and runs webagent serve. Every tool the agent holds is wrapped by action.Guard so the chosen guardrail executes before any action runs and the model cannot bypass it. Live capabilities include OpenRouter/gateway LLM brains, MCP tools over Streamable HTTP, and Slack, WhatsApp, and HTTP channels; browser actions, OAuth-gated MCP, OTel export, and AgentNet identity/billing are not yet built. The project is v0 with a deferred-hardening list and cites arXiv 2511.19477 on an 85% versus 50% task-success gap attributed to architecture over model capability.

MarkTechPost·Sep 15, 04:03 UTC · 1d agoAI tools & infra1

Hugging Face's new ML Intern lets anyone run machine learning experiments through a simple chat

Hugging Face launched ML Intern, a chat-based agent that autonomously selects models, trains, and ships demos within user-approved compute budgets.

Hugging Face's ML Intern lets users describe a project in chat, then finds models, datasets, and tools on the Hub, GitHub, and the web before estimating compute costs and enforcing an approved budget. It autonomously creates datasets, trains models, monitors jobs, uploads results, writes reports, and builds demos, each with its own tracking dashboard. A demo training run took about six hours and cost under $0.50. The launch comes as Hugging Face is being acquired by Nvidia, whose CEO Jensen Huang has pledged to keep the platform open and hardware-neutral.

The Decoder·Sep 9, 10:38 UTC · 7d agoAI industry1

WordPress Security Plugins: How to Choose the Right One

Sucuri's guide breaks WordPress security plugins into hardening, malware scanning, integrity monitoring, and filtering types, and explains how to evaluate and layer them.

The Sucuri guide explains that WordPress security plugins bundle five capabilities - hardening, malware detection, integrity monitoring, activity logging, and application-level filtering - and that plugins run only after WordPress loads, unlike server-level firewalls. It lists leading causes of compromise: outdated plugins and themes, weak or reused credentials, nulled premium software, insecure configuration, and shared-hosting cross-contamination. It concludes with evaluation criteria and a post-installation security checklist for owners without dedicated security teams.

Sucuri Blog·Sep 5, 03:01 UTC · 11d agoIndustry

Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio

Hugging Face published a guide on wiring, running, and deploying AI workflows in the Gradio framework.

Hugging Face's blog post 'Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio' is a tutorial on building AI workflows with Gradio. It covers wiring components, running applications, and deploying AI-powered apps. No security incident or vulnerability content is included.

Hugging Face Blog·Aug 25, 00:00 UTC · 22d agoAI tools & infra

NeoHorse-1: Towards Recursive Self-Improvement via Agentic Post-Training with Routing Harness

NeoHorse-1 introduces agentic post-training with intelligent routing that lifts agent benchmark scores at 4B and 9B scales, prototyping recursive self-improvement.

NeoHorse-1 is a family of agent-native models trained through agentic post-training: routing-harness logs (predicted capability demand, service tier, interaction) become structurally validated training data organized into a three-stage SFT curriculum plus routing-guided on-policy distillation. Capability-guided allocation converts evaluation feedback into the next training mixture, closing an evaluation-selection-update loop. Post-training raises the macro-average from 58.94 to 64.87 at 4B and from 65.60 to 69.04 at 9B across eleven agent, tool-use, coding, and instruction-following benchmarks. The authors position it as a prototype of harness-mediated recursive self-improvement.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 7, 20:00 UTC · 9d agoAI research1

Agent Harness vs Agent Framework vs MCP: Which Layer Owns the Loop, State, Tools, Permissions, and Recovery

Architecture explainer separates agent harnesses, frameworks, and MCP by which layer owns the loop, state, permissions, and recovery.

The article distinguishes agent harnesses (OpenAI Codex, Claude Agent SDK), which own the execution loop, sandbox, permission model, and recovery; frameworks (LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Microsoft Agent Framework), which supply composable primitives; and MCP, a stateless JSON-RPC wire protocol governed by the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation since December 2025. An ownership matrix maps the execution loop, state, tool transport, permissions, recovery, sandboxing, and multi-agent orchestration to each layer. The 2026-07-28 MCP specification made the protocol fully stateless, retiring the initialize handshake and session headers.

MarkTechPost·Sep 14, 21:54 UTC · 2d agoAI research1

Legit Security VibeGuard 2.0 brings endpoint security and real-time guardrails to AI coding agents

Help Net Security·Aug 4, 00:00 UTC · Aug 4, 2026AI safety & security

Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 – Hugo Vergnes

Independent developer Hugo Vergnes trained a 3.8B-parameter Llama-style model to 0.384 CORE on 65B tokens for $998 in 43 hours on rented B200s.

Hugo Vergnes trained little-lm, a 3.848B-parameter decoder-only LLM, on 65.3B tokens in 43 hours for $998 using rented NVIDIA B200s, scoring 0.384 on the CORE benchmark and beating nanochat d32 (0.310) at similar cost. The Llama-style architecture uses RMSNorm, RoPE, GQA with 24 query and 8 KV heads, relu-squared MLPs, QK-norm, and ResFormer-style value embeddings that account for 19% of parameters. Key wins included the Muon optimizer for matrix parameters, a trapezoidal learning-rate schedule with linear cooldown, FP8 training plus vocabulary padding for roughly 33% throughput gains, and the ClimMix dataset over FineWeb-Edu. The project, inspired by Karpathy's nanochat, was built as a config-driven YAML framework for small LLM training.

Hacker News · security·Sep 10, 02:04 UTC · 6d agoAI researchHN 28↑ · 2 comments1

WordPress Blocks High-Risk Plugin Releases With New AI-Powered Automated Security Review

WordPress.org now runs AI-powered automated security reviews on every plugin release, automatically blocking high-risk updates before distribution to millions of sites.

WordPress launched an automated security review that combines multiple AI models and Jetpack Scan during a six-hour cooldown to score each plugin release; updates above the blocking threshold are automatically held back from the WordPress.org update API. The change follows a July 28 incident where a backdoor added to a plugin with roughly 20,000 active installations was detected during cooldown and never delivered; the Plugins Team removed it 26 minutes after a Wordfence notification. Blocked developers receive an email with findings and are advised to publish a corrected version rather than await manual appeal.

GBHackers·updated Sep 11, 16:33 UTC · 5d ago·first Sep 11, 05:49 UTC · 5d agoTools 6 sources1

[webapps] Blocksy Companion 2.1.46 - RCE

Public RCE exploit published for Blocksy Companion 2.1.46, a popular WordPress plugin by CreativeThemes.

Exploit-DB entry 52640 documents a remote code execution vulnerability in Blocksy Companion version 2.1.46, a widely installed WordPress page-building plugin. A public exploit allows attackers to achieve code execution on sites running the vulnerable plugin version. Administrators should verify the installed version and update if a patched release is available.

Exploit-DB·Aug 11, 00:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026Exploit / PoC

WordPress Adds Automated Plugin Reviews to Block High-Risk Updates Before Distribution

WordPress will automatically scan every plugin release and block high-risk updates from distribution using AI analysis plus Jetpack Scan.

WordPress announced automated security reviews for every plugin release during its cooldown period before distribution through the WordPress.org update API, combining AI models with Jetpack Scan into a security score. The system already caught a backdoor committed to a plugin with about 20,000 active installations on July 28, 2026, blocking it within 26 minutes of a Wordfence alert. Flagged patterns include missing capability checks, unsafe $wpdb queries, unserialize() on request data, and obfuscated code.

The Hacker News·Sep 14, 16:00 UTC · 2d agoTools

ScienceBuddy: Recursive-in-Recursive Self-Improvement for Interactive Scientific Agents

ScienceBuddy released: interactive scientific agent workspace coupling harness evolution with model reinforcement learning for continual self-improvement across four scientific task families.

ScienceBuddy is an interactive scientific research workspace that turns researcher requests, feedback, and execution evidence into tasks and evaluation rubrics for continual learning. Its recursive-in-recursive self-improvement paradigm couples harness evolution with the model fixed (inner recursion) and model reinforcement learning under the improved harness (outer recursion). Case studies span four scientific task families covering researcher interaction, harness refinement, and model learning. The system is released as a research product at science-buddy.io.

Hugging Face daily papers·updated Sep 15, 17:55 UTC · 1d ago·first Sep 14, 20:00 UTC · 2d agoAI research 2 sources

COBRA-Skills: Contextual Bandit-Guided Evolution for Agent Skill Optimization

COBRA-Skills uses contextual bandits to guide LLM agent skill evolution, cutting optimization cost 55-58% versus SkillOpt while topping six agent benchmarks.

COBRA-Skills formulates LLM agent skill optimization as budgeted sequential optimization over a dynamically evolving candidate space. It couples contextual-bandit-guided prioritization with evidence-grounded skill evolution, selectively spending execution-based evaluations on promising candidates while refining skills from feedback. Across six heterogeneous agent benchmarks and three target models, it achieves the strongest average performance while reducing optimization cost by 55-58% relative to SkillOpt using only 50 unique optimization examples per benchmark. The method remains robust to agent harness changes and works when the target model generates its own skills.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 9, 20:00 UTC · 7d agoAI research

HazardAuditor: From Executable Threats to Safer Computer-Use Agents

HazardAuditor trains execution-grounded guard models for computer-use agents, improving safety verdict accuracy by up to 16.5 points.

HazardAuditor runs heterogeneous agents (Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw) in controlled environments and normalizes their interactions into a canonical event representation for cross-framework supervision. It introduces Guard Policy Optimization (GuardPO), which converts deterministic safety outcomes into sequence-level advantages and normalizes rationale and verdict regions so the safety decision becomes the effective optimization unit. Across multiple benchmarks and heterogeneous computer-use systems, HazardAuditor improves accuracy by up to 16.5 percentage points over the strongest prior guard model. Code, models, and evaluation artifacts are being released.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 13, 20:00 UTC · 3d agoAI safety & security

The Frontier AEO Tracker: What Astra Chooses (and every other frontier model, and what you can do about it)

Latent Space launches an AEO tracker scoring 7 frontier models' product recommendations across 161 categories, revealing generational bias flips.

Latent Space built a tracker measuring Answer Engine Optimization by running 6 prompt variations across 7 frontier models with search enabled over 161 product categories, scoring first choices, alternatives, mentions, and anti-recommendations. It found 28 categories with a universally dominant primary choice and observed soft biases, such as models favoring their own lab's coding agents. Analysis of Anthropic's Sol→Astra and Opus→Fable generations showed newer models consulting fewer sources and being less likely to change answers when questions are paraphrased.

Latent Space·Sep 7, 21:32 UTC · 9d agoAI research

Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs

Developer launches Engrim, an open-source local-first SQLite memory engine giving AI CLI agents persistent memory.

Engrim, shared on Hacker News (89 points), is a universal, local-first memory layer built on SQLite for AI CLI tools. It targets agent-style CLI applications that need durable cross-session memory without cloud dependencies. Details beyond the repository description were not provided in the source text.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 7, 04:49 UTC · 9d agoAI tools & infraHN 89↑ · 53 comments2

Ambient @ EgoProactive 2026 : Proactive Egocentric Assistance with Visually Grounded Supervision

ECCV 2026 challenge winner reformulates egocentric intervention timing as single-token classification, boosting macro-F1 by 0.249 over free-form generation.

The paper describes the winning submission to the EgoProactive track of the ECCV 2026 Wearable AI Challenge, ranking first in the large-model division and second in the <=2B division. The method reformulates intervention timing as single-token yes/no classification, improving macro-F1 by 0.249 and G-mean by 0.30 over free-form generation. Supervision generated by a tool-calling video agent transferred better than a narration-only dataset that was four times larger and ten times cheaper, suggesting visual grounding matters more than annotation volume.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 9, 20:00 UTC · 7d agoAI research