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Wrong Proposals Could Delay the Search but Not Hide the Rule

Narcissus keeps LLM proposals as context-bearing syntax trees while leaving every grammar rule reachable.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-27-010
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Summary

Narcissus keeps LLM proposals as context-bearing syntax trees while leaving every grammar rule reachable.

Across five domains and two search backends, the synthesizer beat static guidance at every tested budget and consistently outperformed asking the model to repair its own proposal. It solved 40 percent of ARC tasks where raw proposals solved 13 percent and made no LLM call during search.

Why it matters

Narcissus keeps LLM proposals as context-bearing syntax trees while leaving every grammar rule reachable.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. Narcissus keeps LLM proposals as context-bearing syntax trees while leaving every grammar rule reachable.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-27-010

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.25657arXiv · primary research

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