Large language models are increasingly deployed as agents for long-horizon tasks, yet their performance is shaped not only by model capability and environment design, but also by the harness that mediates agent–environment interaction. Existing harnesses are largely manually engineered, making them difficult to scale as trajectories grow longer and interactions become more complex. In this work, we ask whether harness engineering can be formulated as an end-to-end learnable generation problem. We introduce HarnessBridge, a lightweight learnable harness policy that parameterizes the agent–environment interface as a bidirectional projection. HarnessBridge learns two bidirectional projections: observation projection, which distills raw trajectories into compact, decision-relevant states, and action projection, which converts proposed actions into executable transitions or trajectory-grounded rejections. We train HarnessBridge on a harness supervision dataset via unified instruction tuning. On Terminal-Bench 2.0 and SWE-bench Verified, HarnessBridge matches or surpasses strong specialized harnesses while substantially reducing token usage and trajectory length, and generalizes from smaller generators to larger commercial models. Our code is released at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/HarnessBridge-6CDC.

We present one of the preliminary NLP works under the challenging setup of Learning from Label Proportions (LLP), where the data is provided in an aggregate form called bags and only the proportion of samples in each class as the ground truth. This setup is inline with the desired characteristics of training models under Privacy settings and Weakly supervision. By characterizing some irregularities of the most widely used baseline technique DLLP, we propose a novel formulation that is also robust. This is accompanied with a learnability result that provides a generalization bound under LLP. Combining this formulation with a self-supervised objective, our method achieves better results as compared to the baselines in almost 87% of the experimental configurations which include large scale models for both long and short range texts across multiple metrics.

Fake news has become a hotly debated topic in journalism. In this paper, we present our entry to the 2017 Fake News Challenge which models the detection of fake news as a stance classification task that finished in 11th place on the leader board. Our entry is an ensemble system of classifiers developed by students in the context of their coursework. We show how we used the stacking ensemble method for this purpose and obtained improvements in classification accuracy exceeding each of the individual models’ performance on the development data. Finally, we discuss aspects of the experimental setup of the challenge.