Understanding When Reflective Prompt and Skill Optimization Helps on Locally Served Reasoning Models: A Two-Model Study of GEPA and SkillOpt.

arXiv:2610.26020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reflective text-space optimizers such as GEPA and SkillOpt have reported large gains on frontier and mid-size models. We test replication across two reasoning-native target-serving configurations: DeepSeek V4 Fla