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at each turn, a \emph{generator} model generates $N$ candidate actions and a \emph{selector} model selects one of them, which is then executed in the …
英文标题：On Turn-Level Best-of-N Sampling for Scaling LLM Agents
arXiv编号：2611.06868
作者：Jalaj Bhandari, Dhawal Gupta, Hongli Zhan
来源：arXiv
原文链接：https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.06868
中文摘要：
In this work, we evaluate a simple inference-time scaling approach based on \textit{turn-level best-of-N sampling} (\method) for large language model (LLM) agents on complex, long-horizon tasks. We instantiate this using a \textit{generator-selector} framework with two LLMs; at each turn, a \emph{generator} model generates $N$ candidate actions and a \emph{selector} model selects one of them, which is then executed in the environment. This paper is closely related to the work of \cite{zainullina2025guided} who used critic models for guided search at inference time. Different from their work, we evaluate if off-the-shelf, open-weight LLMs can be effective at comparing different candidate actions directly. Experiments on long-horizon terminal tasks show that \method can lead to significant performance improvements, both in terms of accuracy (5--10\%) and consistency across repeated attempts. Analysis of agent trajectories reveal a shift in agent behaviour towards desirable patterns such as reduction in number of attempts to solve the task, improved task instruction following, debugging and testing.
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