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BUILD AN AGENT LOOP A SMALL MODEL CAN FINISH

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A reliable agent loop depends less on model size than on a trustworthy check that turns progress into a score or pass condition. In two visual tasks, small models improved dramatically when they received repeatable feedback across varied examples and holdout cases, while weak checks encouraged overfitting or shortcuts.