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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.