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New ASAP framework evaluates LLM agentic capabilities during pretraining

Researchers have developed ASAP, a new framework designed to evaluate the agentic capabilities of large language models during their pretraining phase. Unlike existing methods that use static tasks or likelihood proxies, ASAP employs interactive end-to-end tasks. This approach adapts agent scaffolds through structured trajectory continuation and minimal recovery mechanisms, allowing for a more direct assessment of how models perform in dynamic environments without needing to convert them into chat agents. The framework has shown promise in distinguishing performance across various models and pretraining checkpoints, offering insights into the development of agent-relevant skills. AI

IMPACT Provides a new method for assessing LLM agentic behavior during pretraining, potentially improving model development.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel framework for evaluating LLM capabilities. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New ASAP framework evaluates LLM agentic capabilities during pretraining

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Evaluating Agentic Capabilities Before Post-Training: An End-to-End Approach

    ASAP is a lightweight framework that evaluates agentic behavior in pretrained base models via interactive end-to-end tasks without converting them to chat agents.