arXiv:2604. 17708v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automating operations research (OR) with large language models (LLMs) remains limited by hand-crafted reasoning--execution workflows.
By Jiahao Huang, Peilan Xu, Xiaoya Nan, Wenjian Luo
arXiv:2602. 13769v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automating heuristic design in complex, experiment-driven domains requires more than iterative mutation of solution algorithms.
By Qi Liu, Ruochen Hao, Can Li, Wanjing Ma
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.
By Yingtao Tian
arXiv:2608. 10504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As coding agents increasingly handle implementation, the central challenge shifts from building individual agents to building an infrastructure that systematically improves them.
By Jung Hwan Lee, Kyu Ho Lee, Gwang Hoon Yoo
arXiv:2607. 10127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evolutionary program search guided by Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for automated scientific discovery.
By Xuanzhou Chen, Taoli Cheng
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.
By Junbo Li, Boyi Liu, Canwen Xu, Yite Wang, Yuxiong He, Zhangyang Wang, Qiang Liu, Zhewei Yao
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?
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.
By Ya-Chuan Chen, Tien-Jen Lai, Hsiang-Wei Hu
arXiv:2606. 14202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD) by enabling heuristic generation through reasoning and code synthesis.
By Zishang Qiu, Xinan Chen, Rong Qu, Ruibin Bai
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.
By Shujin Wu, Cheng Qian, Xiusi Chen, Heng Ji
arXiv:2607. 09025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is shifting scientific discovery from task-specific workflows towards autonomous systems that organize exploration with experimental and human feedback in open-ended candidate spaces.
By Chao Wang, Lingling Li, Fang Liu, Licheng Jiao
arXiv:2606. 04465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: System prompt optimization improves agent behavior without modifying the underlying model, yielding human-readable, model-agnostic instructions.
By Wangcheng Tao, Han Wu, Weng-Fai Wong