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ASAP evaluates agentic behavior in pretrained base models

An arXiv paper proposing a lightweight evaluation on end-to-end software and research tasks. It is background research with no engineering action yet.

Read the source at huggingface.co

What the research found

ASAP is an arXiv paper (2610.19425) proposing a lightweight way to evaluate agentic behavior in pretrained base models on end-to-end software-engineering and deep-research tasks; research background with no engineering action.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. ASAP evaluates agentic behavior in pretrained base models without converting them to chat agents 99%
  2. ASAP is evaluated across software-engineering and deep-research benchmarks 98%

Evidence

Actionability rated low.