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## Summary  
The paper introduces EvolveNet, a collaborative harness evolution framework that enables LLM agents to improve their execution environments without updating model weights. By moving experience aggregation to the data layer, EvolveNet allows multiple agents to evolve their harnesses locally and share only adapted program adaptations, enabling concurrent evolutionary searches across heterogeneous workloads. This shift reduces central bottlenecks and makes continual improvement scalable in distributed settings.

## Key Contributions  
- Collaborative harness evolution decouples experience extraction from a single optimizer, allowing parallel adaptation of shared harness components.  
- Scope‑typed, evidence‑guided aggregation composes adaptations from different agents into an updated shared harness while preserving functional compatibility and preventing catastrophic composition failures.  
- Empirical results show consistent improvements in five diverse settings, with the largest gains (up to 15 %) occurring under heterogeneous workloads, indicating synergy from combining distinct adaptations rather than selecting a single optimal one.

## Methodology  
The authors design EvolveNet as a decentralized evolution pipeline where each local agent receives a shared harness, runs its task, and outputs adapted program snippets. These adaptations are logged with evidence tags indicating success or failure, which guide the selection of compatible snippets during composition. The resulting set of adaptations is aggregated using scope‑typed rules to resolve conflicts, producing a new shared harness that is broadcast back to all agents for the next iteration.

## Results  
Across text‑to‑SQL, data‑science coding, competitive programming, software engineering, and agentic workflows, EvolveNet improves average task success rates by 8–12 % compared with static harnesses. Ablations confirm that benefits stem primarily from combining adaptations rather than selecting a single optimal one. The largest gains (up to 15 %) occur when workloads are heterogeneous, highlighting the value of diverse contributions.

## Significance  
This work decouples model training from harness optimization, reducing resource constraints and enabling continuous improvement in real‑world agent deployments where updating models is costly or impractical. By shifting aggregation to the data layer, EvolveNet makes continual learning feasible in low‑resource settings.

## Related Concepts  
- LLM agents, harnesses, evolutionary computation, decentralized learning, scope‑typed programming, evidence‑guided composition, heterogeneous workloads.