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New A-CEGIS framework uses counterexamples to improve AI agent self-correction

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A new framework called A-CEGIS has been developed to evaluate the multi-turn refinement capabilities of AI agents, particularly in natural-language-to-regex synthesis. This framework utilizes counterexamples as feedback, providing agents with specific false-positive or false-negative witnesses to guide their iterative improvements. In tests on 30 NL-RX-Turk tasks, A-CEGIS achieved a 90% success rate within four turns, significantly outperforming zero-shot generation and other feedback methods. The system also demonstrated robustness by solving all tasks on a hidden set with a mean time-to-success of 2.7 turns. AI

IMPACT Enhances agent refinement capabilities, potentially leading to more robust and efficient AI systems in complex synthesis tasks.

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New A-CEGIS framework uses counterexamples to improve AI agent self-correction

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Sidhesh Badrinarayan, Adithya Parthasarathy ·

    Counterexamples as Feedback for Agent Self-Correction

    arXiv:2609.02892v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-turn code-generation metrics understate a central property of deployed agents: whether they can repair a wrong artifact after receiving concrete feedback. This paper presents A-CEGIS, a lightweight framework that uses count…

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