Tailoring agent harnesses per task beats one-size-fits-all optimization

Turbo Harness reuses prior optimization traces to modify a global agent harness for each incoming task.

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Tunyu Zhang · Hao Wang · Kai Xu · Dimitris N. Metaxas

Rutgers University · Red Hat AI Innovation · MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

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Zhang et al.

The authors start with an outer-loop optimization run that has already searched for a strong global harness.

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From MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and 2 others

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Turbo Harness adapts global harnesses per instance using prior optimization artifacts, outperforming baselines across seven benchmarks.

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