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Coding Agents Compress the Model and Miss Different Things

CompressionBench gives agents weights, a storage cap and inference tests; 29 of 36 submissions pass independent verification.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-11-05-015
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Summary

CompressionBench gives agents weights, a storage cap and inference tests; 29 of 36 submissions pass independent verification.

The best agent design per task averages a 3.4 percent perplexity increase over BF16 and 77.33 percent downstream accuracy versus 79.56 percent. Full-model feedback reverses 17 of 79 local rankings, and generation tests catch failures perplexity misses.

Why it matters

CompressionBench gives agents weights, a storage cap and inference tests; 29 of 36 submissions pass independent verification.

Limits and context

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Key claims

  1. CompressionBench gives agents weights, a storage cap and inference tests; 29 of 36 submissions pass independent verification.

    Evidence: source-2026-11-05-017

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2611.06858, original v1arXiv · primary research

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