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milkkarten

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About milkkarten

PhD at Princeton

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    Comment #48465568

    no reasoning shown. no explanation on any training information. Using vision-only should be an easier version of the task (given training). there are many standardized evals to do …

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    Comment #48195157

    Author here. LLM agents are getting good enough to run individual businesses. What happens when everyone's business is run by agents? Turns out, without targeted training for econo…

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    Comment #48126113

    Author here. TL;DR: Long-horizon embodied agency is a harness problem, not a model-scale problem. Coding agents like Claude Code work because of scaffolding (prompt, skills, memory…

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    Comment #44807362

    We ran each method in under 24 hours on a singular H100. I understand your point and think we will include this in future iterations of our work since this is very interesting from…

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    Comment #44792530

    Using smaller, cheaper agents is one of the goals of the work. There is a Pareto frontier though: by using smaller, faster, cheaper agents, the number of steps required to converge…

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    Comment #44781553

    These are the marginal tax rates not the effective tax rate (e.g. 80% of first $10k, 30% of $10k-20k). We do not model tax credits here. We try to keep the system as simple as poss…

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    Comment #44780919

    We simulate large-scale agent societies where heterogeneous personas work, adapt, and vote—governed by an in-context planner optimizing social welfare. The system models decentrali…

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