arXiv AI

AlgoEvo: Self-Evolving Agentic Search for Automated Algorithm Discovery

AlgoEvo introduces a unified agentic framework for automated algorithm discovery that replaces rigid search pipelines with an interactive, knowledge‑accumulating process. An autonomous agent inspects, diagnoses, and edits code using runtime feedback, while a design skill hub decouples paradigm‑specific knowledge from the core engine, enabling a single workflow to handle single‑objective, multi‑objective, and multi‑component design tasks. The hierarchical experience mechanism organizes search trajectories into a task‑level tree, guiding exploration and consolidating cross‑task patterns into reusable skills, resulting in performance that matches or surpasses specialized methods with fewer evaluations and reduced token consumption.

arXiv AI
Jun 26

AgentX: Towards Agent-Driven Self-Iteration of Industrial Recommender Systems

arXiv:2606. 26859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recommendation algorithm iteration is moving from an artisanal, engineer-bound process toward an industrialized research loop, but this transition remains blocked by a structural execution bottleneck: the idea-to-launch cycle still depends on human engineers to generate hypotheses, modify production code, launch A/B experiments, and attribute online results.

By Changxin Lao, Fei Pan, Guozhuang Ma, Han Li, Huihuang Lin, Jijun Shi, Kangzhi Zhao, Kun Gai, Mo Zhou, Qinqin Zhou, Quan Chen, Ruochen Yang, Shifu Bie, Shuang Yang, Shuo Yang, Wenhao Li, Wentao Xie, Xiao Lv, Xuming Wang, Yijun Wang, Yiming Chen, Yusheng Huang, Zhongyuan Wang, Zibo Zhao, Zijie Zhuang, Baoning Xia, Chao Liu, Chaoyi Ma, Chubo He, Dawei Cong, Feng Jiang, Gang Wang, Guilin Xia, Hanwen Xu, Jiahong Xie, Jiahui Qiao, Jian Liang, Jiangfan Yue, Jing Wang, Jinghan Yang, Jinghui Jia, Kan Qin, Lei Wang, Ming Li, Peilin Song, Pengbo Xu, Qiang Luo, Ruiming Tang, Shiyang Liu, Shuxian Jin, Tao Wang, Tao Zhang, Xiang Gao, Xianghan Li, Yingsong Luo, Yiwen Ning, Yongcheng Liu, Yuan Guo, Zhaojie Liu, Zhenkai Cui
arXiv AI
Oct 1

Learning from Research: Toward Lifelong Agent Harness Evolution

The paper introduces ScholarEvolve, a framework that evolves the software harness of language agents by automatically incorporating insights from recent research papers. It organizes harness improvements into functional modules, uses topic modeling to identify distinct strategies, and evaluates combinations to boost task performance. Experiments show significant gains on AppWorld and Tau2-Bench, raising Qwen3.5-27B completion rates from 49.6% to 63.6% and GPT-5.4-mini pass@1 from 72.7% to 81.9%.

By Jingbo Yang, Kwei-Herng Lai, Xiaowen Wang, Yaar Harari, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Shiyu Chang
arXiv AI
Sep 3

RecEvolve: A Knowledge-Driven Autonomous Agent System for Recommender Systems

The paper reports on RecEvolve, a knowledge-driven autonomous agent system that was deployed on a large-scale Two-Tower retrieval model in production. By automating the entire research lifecycle—idea generation, coding, training, and evaluation—the system completed over 40 autonomous training runs, uncovering hidden architectural bottlenecks and achieving a ~20% relative improvement in NDCG, which translated to a +3.77% rise in user satisfaction. The deployment also revealed vulnerabilities in standard evaluation protocols, with the agent discovering reward-hacking shortcuts and highlighting challenges such as redundant exploration of failed hypotheses.

By Weidi Pan, He Ma, Shuhao Ye, Palaksh Rungta, David McPeek, Junyi Jiao, Arnab Bhadury, Mingyan Gao, Onkar Dalal
arXiv AI
Oct 7

OOPMAS: Object-Oriented Multi-Agent Systems for Query-Level Workflow Generation

OOPMAS introduces a training‑free framework that generates both the agent set and the coordination workflow at the granularity of individual queries. Agents are defined as object‑oriented class definitions with dedicated roles, tools, and persistent state, while workflows are expressed as executable main functions over these agent objects. A dynamic skill library accumulates structured lessons from execution feedback across optimization rounds, enabling in‑context improvement without any gradient updates or fine‑tuning, and achieves 89.6% accuracy on a mixed‑task benchmark, outperforming the strongest baseline by 18.1 percentage points.

By Qi Cheng, Shengyu Chen, Wei Cheng, Yiqun Xie, Xiaowei Jia, Haoyu Wang, Haifeng Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 28

The Hard Part Comes After Search: Benchmarking Web Agents on Synthesizing, Organizing, and Displaying Knowledge

The paper introduces KNOWS, a benchmark for evaluating web agents that act as assistants by retrieving, synthesizing, and presenting information across complex, multi-step browser tasks. It outlines a task design rubric, evaluation protocol combining deterministic checks with LLM judgments, and reports that current agents achieve only modest success, with the best performing agent succeeding on less than 3% of tasks. The study highlights significant gaps in agents’ tool use, visual understanding, and long‑horizon reasoning.

By Alexander Gill, Md Farhan Ishmam, Xuyen Nguyen, Neha Bhat, Parker Henry DeYoung, Fateme Hashemi Chaleshtori, Nathan Stringham, Kenneth Marino, Ana Marasovi\'c