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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 6, 2026Published at 1:47 AM EDT · New York
Two Papers Test Whether Language Models Can Formulate Technical Problems, Not Just Solve Them
One benchmark scores models on turning word problems into black-box optimization formulations, where formulation quality determines solution quality. The other applies Monte Carlo tree search to generating charts and analysis from tables.
Two arXiv submissions this morning share a premise that separates useful engineering agents from chat assistants. The hard part of expert work is often stating the problem, not computing the answer. BBOWP-Bench evaluates large language mode…
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