arXiv AI
Jul 28
Efficiency Matters in Autonomous Research
arXiv:2607. 24647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-driven autonomous research (AR) systems are becoming increasingly effective across a broad range of tasks.
Don't Gamble, GAMBLe: An Analytical Framework for AI-Driven Research Systems
arXiv:2606. 02863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-Driven Research Systems (ADRS) -- systems coupling LLMs with automated evaluation to discover algorithms, proofs, and designs -- are being optimized and adopted across domains, but the tools to analyze them have not kept pace.
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arXiv AI
Jul 21
Automated Discovery Has No Universally Superior Harness
arXiv:2607. 18235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous discovery systems such as OpenEvolve and TTT-Discover are often used as general-purpose harnesses.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30
Evolution Fine-Tuning: Learning to Discover Across 371 Optimization Tasks
arXiv:2606. 29082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Would experience designing faster GPU kernels also help close in on a long-standing open mathematical conjecture?
arXiv AI
Aug 25
The Greatness of Science Cannot Be Planned: Agentic Auto-Research is Fuzz Testing
The article argues that agentic auto‑research should be guided by dense, intermediate signals of epistemic progress rather than by sparse final benchmarks. It compares this approach to fuzz testing, where coverage provides continuous feedback that directs input mutation. The authors propose controlled experiments to test whether such signals improve discovery efficiency and reduce false positives, and demonstrate in a simulated physics setting that an AI agent using feedback‑driven search uncovers a hidden law while optimization‑driven baselines fail.
arXiv AI
Aug 10
The Optimizer Is the Agent: Reasoning-Driven Search across Prompts, Programs, and ML Workflows
arXiv:2608. 06714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent systems for optimizing prompts, programs, and ML workflows typically rely on explicit outer-loop controllers such as evolutionary search, bandits, or textual-gradient methods.
arXiv AI
Aug 11
Janus: An Algorithm-Evaluator Co-Evolution Framework for LLM-Driven Discovery under Expensive Evaluation Budgets
arXiv:2608. 08189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-driven program discovery relies on rapid evaluator feedback, but many scientific and engineering tasks require high-fidelity simulations, hardware execution, or physical experiments, making each evaluation expensive.
arXiv AI
Aug 10
CEDAR: Agent-Orchestrated Tree Search for Goal-Directed Optimization of Complex Systems
arXiv:2608. 06871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex systems, core objects of study in artificial life, model diverse phenomena through nonlinear, feedback-driven interactions that produce emergent behavior, with applications from population dynamics and biology to economic policy and strategic decision-making.
arXiv AI
Sep 7
OR-Agent: Bridging Evolutionary Search and Structured Research for Automated Heuristic Design
OR-Agent is a multi‑agent research framework that automates heuristic design for optimization problems by structuring heuristic search as a tree‑based workflow with explicit hypothesis generation and systematic backtracking. It introduces a hierarchical, optimization‑inspired reflection system that uses short‑term reflections as verbal gradients, long‑term reflections as verbal momentum, and memory compression as semantic weight decay to guide research dynamics. Experiments on classical combinatorial optimization tasks and simulation‑based cooperative driving scenarios show that OR‑Agent outperforms strong evolutionary search baselines, with all code and data publicly available.
arXiv AI
Aug 5
OR-Agent: Bridging Evolutionary Search and Structured Research for Automated Algorithm Discovery
arXiv:2602. 13769v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automating heuristic design in complex, experiment-driven domains requires more than iterative mutation of solution algorithms.
arXiv AI
Sep 10
Agentic ML Exploration (A-MLE) for Ads Ranking
arXiv:2609.08248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern industrial ads ranking stacks are increasingly bottlenecked not by model capacity or training compute, but by the throughput of human ML iterati...
arXiv AI
Aug 26
Exploit More, Explore Smarter for Budget-Constrained Agentic Search
The paper introduces ExTS, a tree‑search policy designed for budget‑constrained agentic search where evaluation and generation costs are high. ExTS treats expansion as a value‑of‑information decision, combining discriminative reward shaping, a stochastic virtual child, and quality‑conditioned branching to allocate budget more effectively. Experiments on prompt optimization, code generation, molecular structure elucidation, and agentic workflow optimization show ExTS matching or surpassing task‑specific baselines with an average gain of +5.5% using a single configuration, and the authors also present pilot‑run diagnostics to guide adaptation to different problem structures.
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Aug 7
The Optimizer Is the Agent: Reasoning-Driven Search across Prompts, Programs, and ML Workflows
Recent systems for optimizing prompts, programs, and ML workflows typically rely on explicit outer-loop controllers such as evolutionary search, bandits, or textual-gradient methods. We ask a fundamentally different question: how much of this search policy can be internalized by a single tool-using agent?