CIPHER: A Decoupled Exploration-Selection Framework for Test-Time Scaling of Data Science Agents

arXiv:2607.14386 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-07-15 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-07-15

Updated: 2026-10-26

Terminology

• Test-Time Scaling — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• AI Agents — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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