arXiv AI
Jun 4
The Meta-Agent Challenge: Are Current Agents Capable of Autonomous Agent Development?
arXiv:2606. 04455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current AI benchmarks evaluate agents on task execution within human-designed workflows.
From 0-to-1 to 1-to-N: Reproducible Engineering Evidence for MetaAI Recursive Self-Design
arXiv:2606. 09663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-design refers to AI-assisted modification of the mechanisms by which an AI system is built, evaluated, and improved.
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arXiv AI
Jun 26
The Red Queen G\"odel Machine: Co-Evolving Agents and Their Evaluators
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.
arXiv AI
Jun 29
Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution
arXiv:2606. 28279v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present HORIZON, a self-evolving agent framework that treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27
Teaching LLMs to Self-Evolve: Cultivating Core Meta-Skills with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607. 21971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling through iterative self-evolution with environment feedback, as demonstrated by AlphaEvolve, shows remarkable performance gains.
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.
arXiv AI
Jul 9
Recursive Self-Improvement in AI: From Bounded Self-Refinement to Autonomous Research Loops
arXiv:2607. 07663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems increasingly participate in their own improvement: revising their outputs, adapting their own harnesses during deployment, training on data they generate, and, increasingly, conducting AI research itself.
arXiv AI
Aug 11
Argus: A General-Purpose Agentic Reasoning Runtime for Long-Horizon Tasks
arXiv:2608. 05144v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon reasoning requires an agentic runtime that can persist when evidence supports its current approach and pivot when measurements reveal failure, hidden constraints, or a misspecified objective.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
APEX: Adaptive Principle EXtraction A Three-Layer Self-Evolution Framework for Production AI Agents
arXiv:2606. 15363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improvement in AI agents has emerged as a key research frontier: systems that modify their own prompts, workflows, and decision rules based on accumulated operational experience.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8
Recursive Self-Improvement in AI: From Bounded Self-Refinement to Autonomous Research Loops
AI systems increasingly participate in their own improvement: revising their outputs, adapting their own harnesses during deployment, training on data they generate, and, increasingly, conducting AI research itself. This literature is described under a vocabulary ("self-refine," "self-reward," "self-play," "self-evolve") that conflates fundamentally different ambitions.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
MetaSkill-Evolve: Recursive Self-Improvement of LLM Agents via Two-Timescale Meta-Skill Evolution
arXiv:2607. 05297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent LLM agents tackle increasingly long-horizon, open-ended tasks, and external skills, reusable procedural knowledge supplied to the agent, further extend this capability.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4
Can LLM design high-quality experiments? A Comprehensive and Systematic Benchmark on Autonomous Experimental Design
AI for Research (AI4Research) leverages AI to automate and improve scientific workflows. While experimental design is a critical stage of the research process, prior work has focused primarily on code implementation and execution, overlooking the importance of this stage, and no benchmark exists to evaluate AI's ability to conduct systematic experiment design.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
Recursive Self-Evolving Agents via Held-Out Selection
arXiv:2606. 28374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly improved without weight updates by evolving a natural-language artifact, such as reflections, workflows, playbooks, cheatsheets, or optimized prompts, that conditions a frozen policy.