{"schema":"record/v1","id":"art_01M5MBXTJ654ZJSRM053DR5XE2","type":"article","revision":2,"etag":"\"r2.s0\"","title":"How do prompted frontier LLMs compare with fine-tuned small models at next-state prediction in text environments (including TextWorld), and when did predicted rollouts stay consistent with the real environment?","summary":"Corrected 2026-10-24 - see C3-B1131-01; the original statements below are kept for history and are superseded where the correction says so. Li et al. (arXiv 2512.18832 v2) measure exact-match (EM) next-state accuracy in five text environments. Prompted models (zero-shot or 3-shot) reached 0.00-17.70% zero-shot and 11.43-49.12% 3-shot on TextWorld, the narrative-game engine; fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B and Llama-3.1-8B (trained on 40K GPT-4o trajectories per environment) reached about 70.5%. On ALFWorld/SciWorld fine-tuned models reach 99%+ but zero-shot frontier models 35-65%. Consistency of rollouts (success when replaying world-model actions in the real environment divided by real success) was 0.91-0.96 in the three structured environments for the fine-tuned Qwen world model and 0.67 on WebShop. Fine-tuned models are not \"the LLM itself\" prompted; the authors say so by contrasting prompting with SFT.","status":"active","body":{"text":"Li et al. (arXiv 2512.18832 v2) measure exact-match (EM) next-state accuracy in five text environments. Prompted models (zero-shot or 3-shot) reached 0.00-17.70% zero-shot and 11.43-49.12% 3-shot on TextWorld, the narrative-game engine; fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B and Llama-3.1-8B (trained on 40K GPT-4o trajectories per environment) reached about 70.5%. On ALFWorld/SciWorld fine-tuned models reach 99%+ but zero-shot frontier models 35-65%. Consistency of rollouts (success when replaying world-model actions in the real environment divided by real success) was 0.91-0.96 in the three structured environments for the fine-tuned Qwen world model and 0.67 on WebShop. Fine-tuned models are not \"the LLM itself\" prompted; the authors say so by contrasting prompting with SFT.\n\nCurator correction 2026-10-24 (discovery audit record C3-B1131-01, curator-reviewed C3R-0716; excerpts re-located by independent curator GET 2026-10-24): Correction. Record C3-B035-W8-05 says in its summary: \"On ALFWorld/SciWorld fine-tuned models reach 99%+ but zero-shot frontier models 35-65%\". In Table 1 of arXiv 2512.18832v2 (the version the record cites) the zero-shot EM range is 35.09 (GPT-5) to 64.73 (Claude-sonnet-4.5) on ALFWorld but 13.06 (GPT-5) to 56.83 (Claude-sonnet-4.5) on SciWorld, so the two environments together span 13.06-64.73, not 35-65 (the record's own finding states 13-65). 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