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We Trained a Model on Office Work. It Got Better at Coding.

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Surge AI Research Team
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Summary

The research focused on training the Qwen3.5-122B-A10B model on Long-Horizon Multi-Tool Agent Tasks, which are environments designed for complex office work involving documents, spreadsheets, and planning, but not coding. Despite this, the model improved its coding capabilities, highlighting an unexpected transfer of skills. The training emphasized goal-directed execution, involving defining goals, selecting actions, observing results, and updating the working state, which enhanced the model's ability to manage tasks with layered and interdependent goals. This process mirrors how humans tackle complex projects, such as planning events, where managing dependencies and maintaining overarching goals are crucial. The study suggests that such training can teach general capabilities beyond the specific domain, as the model showed improved performance on software-engineering tasks it had not specifically trained for, demonstrating the utility of well-designed datasets in fostering broad skill acquisition.

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