
Active Learning Grew a Second Lever
A 34-author survey led by Yu Xia at UC San Diego — with collaborators across Adobe Research and nine other labs — was accepted to ACL 2025, and it’s worth
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A 34-author survey led by Yu Xia at UC San Diego — with collaborators across Adobe Research and nine other labs — was accepted to ACL 2025, and it’s worth

There’s a quiet result from Cheng et al. (Renmin University and Microsoft Research, 2026) that I keep coming back to. They gave large language models access to a minimal sandbox — essentially a code interpreter with a file system — and watched what happened. No additional training. No new data.
