Operator Packages, Proposer Strength, and Construction-Family Plateaus in Office-Scale Verified Search

arXiv:2609.29636 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-08-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-08-28

Updated: 2026-08-28

Code: https://github.com/RobertoOno/interrupting-the-loop

Terminology

• Verifier — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AUC — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sample Efficiency — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Parsimony — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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• ReEvo: Large Language Models as Hyper-Heuristics with Reflective Evolution
• Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?

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