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
Sep 25
When Search Becomes Memory: Accelerating Robot Design Discovery with Self-Evolving Skills
The paper introduces Auto‑Robotist, a self‑evolving large language model (LLM) agent that transforms evolutionary robot design search traces into an explicit natural‑language skill library. Each skill records a structural archetype, evidence‑grounded rules, and supporting designs, enabling the agent to retrieve and condition LLM edits during search while still using a genetic algorithm for exploration. Experiments on seven EvoGym tasks show that Auto‑Robotist outperforms standard genetic algorithms, especially when transferring learned skills to larger design spaces.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11
The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement
The paper discusses recursive self‑improvement (RSI) for AI, describing how systems can use experience and feedback to make lasting enhancements to both their abilities and their future improvement processes. It introduces the Headroom‑Closed Index (HCI) to expose limitations in current large language models and outlines a development roadmap for RSI, progressing from autonomy in execution to full recursive meta‑improvement. The authors analyze RSI in various contexts such as scientific discovery, embodied intelligence, and software engineering, noting differing requirements and development speeds, and they connect RSI research to practical industry applications while highlighting key challenges to achieving genuine RSI.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10
MetaRSI / RSI2: A Meta-Recursive Self-Improving System for Recursive Self-Improving Systems Themselves
arXiv:2609.06396v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) lets a system improve the model-building machinery from its own failures, so every later model inherits the gain. Yet...
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 Machine Learning
Sep 23
Recursive self-improvement of AI research agents
The paper introduces AIDE^2, an AI research agent that recursively improves its own code by proposing, benchmarking, and selecting modifications. Over an eight‑day autonomous run, it achieved seven successive improvements—including new search policies and memory mechanisms—that transferred to four held‑out benchmarks in machine learning, algorithm engineering, and weather forecasting. The agent’s best version matched or outperformed a top human‑engineered production research agent and also reduced reward‑hacking rates, despite never optimizing for that metric.
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 AI
Aug 20
SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments
SPADE (Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments) is a reinforcement‑learning framework where a single large language model acts as both an Environment Designer—creating executable, long‑horizon training environments—and a Reasoning Agent—learning to act within those environments. The framework uses a regret signal based on the difference between rewarded performance with and without privileged hints to guide the Designer toward environments that are challenging yet solvable. Experiments show that, when scaled to 30‑billion‑parameter models, SPADE outperforms fixed‑environment baselines by significant margins across math, science, code, and reasoning benchmarks, and improves tool‑use performance on BFCL‑v4 and ACEBench‑Agent. whyItMatters":"By making environment design a learnable component, SPADE enables continuous self‑improvement and demonstrates that adaptive, self‑generated training environments can substantially boost language‑model performance across diverse tasks."
arXiv AI
Sep 2
Compositional Machine Design as Program Synthesis with LLMs
arXiv:2510.14980v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong abilities in writing and revising programs, yet many program-synthesis benchmarks still evaluate pro...
arXiv AI
Sep 25
iCoder-27B: Recursive AI-Led Development of Frontier Industrial Coding Model
The paper introduces iCoder-27B, a 27‑billion‑parameter model for RTL design and GPU kernel optimization that is developed through a recursive AI‑led process with minimal human input. Human experts provide high‑level objectives and reusable research skills, while the agent autonomously selects experiments, diagnoses outcomes, and refines training strategies, coordinating SFT, self‑distillation, and reinforcement learning. iCoder outperforms GPT‑5.5 and Claude‑Opus‑4.8 on several benchmarks, demonstrating the feasibility of building frontier‑competitive models with largely automated development.
arXiv AI
6d ago
Evolutionary Safety of Recursive Self-Improving AI: Taxonomy, Risk Discovery, and Evaluation
The paper introduces the concept of Evolutionary Safety for recursive self-improving AI, focusing on how safety properties evolve as an AI system and its successors change. It identifies key risks such as intent drift, error accumulation, and safety-property erosion, and presents a taxonomy covering agent state, model state, evaluation, environment, and update mechanisms. The authors propose methods for discovering and evaluating evolutionary risks, and outline governance principles for modification, selection, authorization, provenance, and recovery, while highlighting open problems for maintaining safety in persistent, adaptive, and recursively self-improving systems.
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago
RSIGame: Autonomous Agentic Game Development with Recursive Self-improvement
arXiv:2609.39045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models have made automatic game generation increasingly feasible, yet reliably improving generated games beyond a pla...