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Tiny coordinator model TRINITY optimizes frontier LLMs for new benchmark SOTA

Researchers have developed TRINITY, a novel approach that uses a small 0.6 billion parameter model to coordinate multiple larger frontier LLMs. This coordinator model, trained using an evolution strategy rather than gradient descent due to sparse rewards, routes each turn to specialized LLMs acting as Thinker, Worker, or Verifier. TRINITY has achieved a new state-of-the-art on the LiveCodeBench benchmark with an 86.2% score, demonstrating its effectiveness in orchestrating complex LLM tasks without significant capability additions of its own. The system is now integrated into Sakana's Fugu. AI

IMPACT This approach could lead to more efficient and capable multi-LLM systems, potentially improving performance on complex tasks by specialized routing.

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    Can a 0.6B model coordinate frontier LLMs better than any one alone? TRINITY (ICLR 2026) trains a tiny coordinator to route each turn to one of seven larger LLM

    Can a 0.6B model coordinate frontier LLMs better than any one alone? TRINITY (ICLR 2026) trains a tiny coordinator to route each turn to one of seven larger LLMs as Thinker, Worker, or Verifier. The optimizer is an evolution strategy (sep-CMA-ES), not gradient descent: the binary…