Coverage, Not Credit: Failure-Credit Routing of Zeroth-Order Perturbation Budgets Does Not Improve On-Pool Sample Efficiency for LLM Agents
This study reports three failure modes that can silently invalidate ZO/ES experiments on frozen LLMs and finds no statistically detectable improvement over uniform allocation in any on-pool comparison in any on-pool comparison.
Yuhong Ge
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