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REVEAL: Reverse Engineering Agentic Latents from Frontier-Model Traces

arXiv自然语言 2026-10-12 15:14 5 阅读 查看原文

Frontier LLM agents perform complex interactive tasks, but their inference costs motivate transferring their experience to smaller open-source agents.

Distillation and latent communication typically require target-model training or access to source-model internals.

We study how textual frontier-model trajectories can provide reusable local controls for a frozen agent.

Inspired by protocol reverse engineering, we introduce $\textit{Agentic Latents}$, comprising anchored states and dynamic profiles of feedback--response cycles elicited by replay in the target model.

Our training-free framework, $\textbf{REVEAL}$ ($\textbf{REV}$erse $\textbf{E}$ngineering $\textbf{A}$gentic $\textbf{L}$atents), uses these profiles and trajectory outcomes to match and select local events from successful and failed rollouts of the same task and source model.

Their response-transition contrasts yield a target-specific steering direction, applied before each response.

Within-benchmark evaluations on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and Humanity's Last Exam with tools report higher accuracy than unmodified agents across three targets.

Representation analyses and behavioral case studies support reusing frontier-model experience as local activation control.