arXiv:2610.36660v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-improving AI systems can revise the designs that govern their own behavior. Yet existing approaches center improvement on selected parent agents a...
By Shuo Yan, Ningning Hou, Haoyu He, Haochen Pei, Shang Gao
arXiv:2610.29784v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Most contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) systems are released with frozen parameters and improve through external updates, whereas an ideal syste...
By Zhipeng Chen, Yunsen Liang, Yanxi Chen, Hongkang Zhao, Lingyun Feng, Ruiyang Ren, Guoxin Chen, Jia Deng, Feng Chang, Chuan Hao, Ran Tao, Jian Yang, Ji-Rong Wen, Bryan Dai, Wayne Xin Zhao
arXiv:2606. 26294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-improving agents are state-of-the-art (SOTA) on agentic coding benchmarks and have recently been extended to general domains.
By Alex Iacob, Andrej Jovanovi\'c, William F. Shen, Daniel Burkhardt, Meghdad Kurmanji, Nurbek Tastan, Lorenzo Sani, Niccol\`o Alberto Elia Venanzi, Ambroise Odonnat, Zeyu Cao, Bill Marino, Xinchi Qiu, Nicholas D. Lane
arXiv:2608. 07545v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An LLM agent's capability depends not only on model weights but on its harness: prompts, tools, skills, and control flow.
By Yifan Zhang, Yutong Dai, Juntao Tan, Luyu Yang, Rishi Mullur, Thai Hoang, Zhiyuan Hu, James Zhu, Phil Mui, Silvio Savarese, Ran Xu, Zeyuan Chen
FREEEVOLVE automates the optimization loop used by agent evolvers, allowing the system to decide what to test, how much evidence to gather, which candidates to pursue, and when to stop, all within specified resource limits. By treating these decisions as an editable evolution skill and improving them through meta‑evolution, the method learns a capability that replaces hand‑crafted search loops. Experiments on several benchmarks show that FREEEVOLVE improves primary metrics by an average of 13.6 points and that meta‑evolved skills add further gains, indicating transferability across environments.
By Lecheng Kong, Like Hui, Nikos Kanakaris, Prithwish Jana, Sahika Genc, Narayanan Sadagopan
The paper introduces Successive Scale Racing (SSR), a framework that improves agentic harness evolution by adaptively selecting optimal evidence combinations during each evolution round. SSR constructs diverse evidence sets based on task quality and coverage, then efficiently races candidate harnesses under a limited compute budget. Across three benchmarks, SSR outperforms baselines, steadily raising pass rates as the task pool expands from 40 to 200 while cutting validation executions by 60%.
By Jingzhe Liu, Jiliang Tang, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Clark Mingxuan Ju
The paper introduces Agent S4, an autonomous system that learns to design and refine user interfaces for computer‑use agents by observing task execution without explicit success labels. By evolving a repository of interfaces through population‑based selection on unseen validation tasks, Agent S4 achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on OSWorld V2 and significant gains on ScienceBoard, outperforming large commercial models at lower cost. The work demonstrates that interface design can be treated as an agent capability, enabling continuous improvement beyond fixed, hand‑crafted interfaces.
By Saaket Agashe, Yuzhe Yang, Gonzalo Gonzalez-Pumariega, Bhuvan Chandra Koduru, Chih-Lun Li, Jiachen Yang, Ang Li, Xin Eric Wang
arXiv:2610.20431v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) in scientific research aims to improve agents' research capabilities through their own experimental experience. Scie...
By Qianru Meng, Xi Zhang, Konstantinos Papakostas, Congfeng Cao, Wenxiang Hu, Tianyi Lu, Xiao Zhang, Lun Zhou, Zaiqiao Meng, Zhaochun Ren, Xiaohui Yan, Yougang Lyu
arXiv:2610.36826v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Autonomous agents increasingly depend on harnesses that govern interaction, memory, tools, and execution around large language models (LLMs). While rec...
By Hao Chen, Yukun Yan, Ziyu Han, Ye He, Chuanzhe Guo, Shangzhan Li, Qi Shi, Qingfu Zhu, Maosong Sun, Wanxiang Che
arXiv:2610.22984v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Experience-driven self-evolution offers a promising path for large language model (LLM) agents to continually improve through interaction. Yet existing...
By Weixiang Zhao, Yichen Zhang, Yanyan Zhao, Jinming Bai, Bin Liang, Ruifeng Xu, Bing Qin, Ting Liu
arXiv:2608. 09629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving agents are usually built around prescribed optimization pipelines: the framework decides how to gather evidence, revise a persistent artifact, select candidates, and stop.
By Hui Xue, Fan Yang
arXiv:2609.24663v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-evolving agents convert interaction feedback into persistent artifacts, such as memories or skills, which in turn guide subsequent decisions. As t...
By Hongqiang Lin, Chao Liu, Xiaofan Bai, Xuan Jin, Yuhong Li, Nenggan Zheng, Xipeng Cao