The Architect, the Adversary, and the Judge: Closed-Loop Generation of Standards-Aligned Assessment Items at Scale
CLAIM, a production pipeline for K-12 assessment-item generation coupling a two-stage generate-then-attack protocol, shows the asymmetry recurring when the evaluator itself is distilled, and analyzes this as open-set boundary determination, a task autoregressive decoders are structurally ill-equipped to solve.