BONSAI: Evolvability-Guided Tree Search over Skills
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arXiv:2608.07056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A skill is a naturallanguage document that steers a frozen agent whose weights cannot be updated so any capability the agent lacks must be supplied in prose Optimising a skill is therefore optimising text against a score and the standard recipe which keeps any edit that raises a heldout score is blind in a specific way a single score cannot tell a document perched on a narrow overfit spike from one resting on a broad plateau even though only the second can still be improved We introduce BONSAI a novel skilloptimisation framework that steers inste
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.07056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A skill is a naturallanguage document that steers a frozen agent whose weights cannot be updated so any capability the agent lacks must be supplied in prose Optimising a skill is therefore optimising text against a score and the standard recipe which keeps any edit that raises a heldout score is blind in a specific way a single score cannot tell a document perched on a narrow overfit spike from one resting on a broad plateau even though only the second can still be improved We introduce BONSAI a novel skilloptimisation framework that steers inste
Why it matters
“BONSAI: Evolvability-Guided Tree Search over Skills” illustrates how changes in the AI ecosystem can affect products, workflows and user expectations together. Its lasting significance depends on measurable adoption, cost and safety outcomes.
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