Aug 9, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Beyond Model Scaling: How Agent Training Shifts from Bulk Environments to Designed Worlds

Recent ACL 2026 papers (EnvScaler, AgentScaler, Echoverse, and Beyond Simply Environment Scaling) reveal a transition from merely increasing the number of training environments to carefully designing environment distributions that improve agent performance, with empirical evidence showing both gains and diminishing returns.

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Beyond Model Scaling: How Agent Training Shifts from Bulk Environments to Designed Worlds

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Dec 22, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Can Budget‑Aware Tool Use Unlock Scalable AI Agents? A Deep Dive

This article analyzes recent Google research on test‑time scaling and agentization, introducing budget‑aware tool use and the BATS framework, presenting experimental results across 180 configurations, uncovering scaling laws, and offering a predictive model for optimal multi‑agent architectures.

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Can Budget‑Aware Tool Use Unlock Scalable AI Agents? A Deep Dive