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Belief-Calibrated Optimization: An Explicit World Model for Agentic Optimization

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 1, 2026 · UTC

The performance of an LLM agent depends on the scaffold around a frozen model. A common way to improve that scaffold is to use a coding agent as an optimizer: it reads current scores and traces and iteratively edits the source, producing a new candidate each round. Each edit is chosen according to a belief about how the environment will respond: what went wrong, and which change should help. That belief is typically implicit. It lives in the coding agent's reasoning on the current call, or remains latent in its parameters, rather than as something written down. Later calls therefore see scores

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