False Frontiers: Diagnosing and Mitigating Co-Cheating in Self-Evolving Search Agents

  • 类型:arxiv
  • 标识:2609.39102
  • 链接:https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39102
  • 主分类:agent
  • 形态:method
  • TLDR:Self-evolving search agents build their own training curricula by jointly optimizing a proposer that generates questions and a solver that answers them. This closed loop introduces a failure mode we call co-cheating: the proposer and solver increasingly agree on shared errors, so internal reward improves without a matching gain in external correctness. A post-hoc audit against source evidence shows co-cheating growing more severe over successive rounds of self-evolution, with pseudo-label correctness stagnating or declining even as the in-loop training signal improves. The most direct mitigati
  • 副分类:engineering
  • 待LLM分类:否
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