#alternating-optimization

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01 ·Agents·★ MEMBER·PAPER·12 min read Paper Walkthrough: WHALE — Training the Weights and the Harness in Turns An agent's performance is set by two things at once: the model weights, and the harness code wrapped around them. Polish one and the other becomes the ceiling. Here is a paper that dissolves that moving bottleneck by simply alternating two phases — explained from the metaphor through the math, the measured numbers, and the limits.