arXiv AI

DiscoGen: Procedural Generation of Algorithm Discovery Tasks in Machine Learning

arXiv:2603. 17863v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automating the development of machine learning algorithms has the potential to unlock new breakthroughs.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

AdaExplore: Failure-Driven Adaptation and Diversity-Preserving Search for Efficient Kernel Generation

arXiv:2604.16625v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent large language model (LLM) agents have shown promise in using execution feedback for test-time adaptation. However, robust self-improv...

By Weihua Du, Jingming Zhuo, Yixin Dong, Andre Wang He, Weiwei Sun, Zeyu Zheng, Manupa Karunaratne, Ivan Fox, Tim Dettmers, Tianqi Chen, Yiming Yang, Sean Welleck
arXiv AI
Jul 9

Cost-Effective Agent Harnesses for Abstract Reasoning and Generalization on ARC-AGI-1

arXiv:2607. 06764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress on ARC-AGI-1 from disclosed architectures has come broadly from two regimes: heavy test-time compute over frontier models (evolutionary search, exhaustive sampling, extended chain-of-thought), or benchmark-specific training in which small models are fine-tuned on ARC data, often with task-specialized architectures.

By Kabir Moghe, Peter Chin
arXiv AI
Oct 9

Generative Adversarial Loops

Generative Adversarial Loops (GAL) is a framework that alternates between a discriminator generating adversarial data to expose weaknesses in current AI systems and a generator discovering algorithms to overcome those weaknesses. Applied to tasks such as KV compression, sparse video generation, sparse attention, and context extension, GAL’s discriminator identifies shortcomings in state‑of‑the‑art techniques, while the generator produces new algorithms that improve performance on both adversarial and established benchmarks. The study demonstrates significant gains, for example boosting CompactorPress on KV compression from 0.35 to 0.97 on the discriminator dataset and improving Dual Chunk Attention from 0.20 to 0.90.

By Kislay Aditya Oj, Nidhi Jain, Sri Surya Varma Datla, Priyanka Jayaswal, Kumar Krishna Agrawal, Aditya Desai
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Can Generalist Agents Automate Data Curation?

arXiv:2606. 04261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Curating training data is among the most consequential yet labor-intensive parts of modern AI development: practitioners iteratively propose, implement, evaluate, and revise data policies against noisy benchmark feedback.

By Feiyang Kang, Hanze Li, Adam Nguyen, Mahavir Dabas, Jiaqi W. Ma, Frederic Sala, Dawn Song, Ruoxi Jia
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Strategy Accumulation and Guided Execution for Automated LLM Fine-Tuning

The paper introduces Strategy Accumulation and Guided Execution (SAGE), a two-stage framework that makes automated fine-tuning of large language models cumulative. In the first stage, a multi-agent pipeline uses Monte Carlo Tree Search to explore training strategies while a Distillation Agent records task-specific insights and cross-task confidence scores into a structured repository. In the second stage, SAGE retrieves relevant experience from this repository to guide training on new tasks, achieving a 12.4‑percentage‑point improvement over a baseline pipeline without accumulated experience on nine unseen tasks.

By Haoran Zhao, Wei Du, Dingwen Yang, Jixuan Huang, Junlin Shang, Lingyong Fang, Ya Guo, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv AI
Jul 8

KernelEvolve: Scaling Agentic Kernel Coding for Heterogeneous AI Accelerators at Meta

arXiv:2512. 23236v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Making deep learning recommendation model (DLRM) training and inference fast and efficient is important.

By Gang Liao, Hongsen Qin, Ying Wang, Alicia Golden, Michael Kuchnik, Yavuz Yetim, Jia Jiunn Ang, Chunli Fu, Yihan He, Samuel Hsia, Zewei Jiang, Dianshi Li, Uladzimir Pashkevich, Varna Puvvada, Feng Shi, Matt Steiner, Ruichao Xiao, Liyuan Li, Nathan Yan, Xiayu Yu, Zhou Fang, Roman Levenstein, Kunming Ho, Haishan Zhu, Alec Hammond, Richard Li, Ajit Mathews, Kaustubh Gondkar, Abdul Zainul-Abedin, Ketan Singh, Hongtao Yu, Wenyuan Chi, Barney Huang, Sean Zhang, Noah Weller, Zach Marine, Wyatt Cook, Carole-Jean Wu, Gaoxiang Liu
arXiv AI
Sep 15

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.

By Junhao Qiu, Qinglong Hu, Xialiang Tong, Mingxuan Yuan, Liyong Lin, Qingfu Zhang