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id: 20261011-T0-17
title: "On the Clock: Towards Punctual and Productive Time-Budgeted AI Agents"
url: https://ai.daily.yangsir.net/daily/20261011-T0-17
issue_date: 2026-10-11
publish_date: 2026-10-10T04:00:00.000Z
source_name: "arXiv cs.AI"
source_url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10833
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# On the Clock: Towards Punctual and Productive Time-Budgeted AI Agents

arXiv:2610.10833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether small LLM agents can operate effectively under explicit wall-clock time budgets by both respecting the allocated runtime and using available time productively. We evaluate Qwen3.6-27B on five competitions from MLE-Bench Lite and Qwen3-

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**来源**：[arXiv cs.AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10833)

**详情页**：https://ai.daily.yangsir.net/daily/20261011-T0-17

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