arXiv AI By Wenhao Zhou, Jiajun Song, Haitao Wang, Zipeng Qiu, Yingqi Peng, Ruida Xu, Jiale Li, Wenshuang Li, Shusheng Xu, Wei Dong, Hao Dai, Tongkai Yang, Yi Gao, Binhang Yuan

AReaL-RSI: Adaptive Scaling and Coordination of Recursive Self-Improvement

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arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 15

Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting

arXiv:2610.20563v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated research with LLM agents has shown promising results in various domains. Through iterative refinement and scored verifiers, LLM agents are...

By Shangyin Tan, Ben Zhou, Lakshya A Agrawal, Jialin Zhang, Yilin Chen, Qiuyang Mang, Donghyun Lee, Dennis Jacob, Koushik Sen, Alex Dimakis, Matei Zaharia
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

RSIGym: A Flexible Environment for Recursive Self-Improvement

RSIGym is a new agent-native research environment built on Everything as a Service (EaaS) that exposes training, inference, rollout, evaluation, and sandbox execution through reusable services. It supports shared budget and permission controls for Data, Harness, and Joint improvement tracks, allowing agents to investigate individual interventions and jointly optimize data, training settings, and execution harnesses within the same environment. Using RSIGym, the Opus 5 model achieved the highest RSI-Index of 0.4809 across five benchmarks, improving performance on software engineering, terminal interaction, mathematics, scientific reasoning, and skill-based tasks.

By Fanqing Meng, Lingxiao Du, Haocheng Lu, Qiguang Chen, Ziqi Zhao, Zijian Wu, Jiayuan Zhuo, Mengkang Hu, Michael Qizhe Shieh
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 22

Building AI Research Teams for Autonomous Discovery of Linear Attention Architectures

The paper proposes a framework for building autonomous AI research teams that can discover linear attention architectures. By assembling agents with diverse disciplinary expertise, private research histories, shared experimental evidence, and adaptive allocation of research opportunities, the team can balance exploration and exploitation under limited experimental budgets. Experiments show that this design outperforms GDN2 at 1.3B scale on language modeling, common‑sense reasoning, and retrieval tasks, and that removing any single component weakens discovery.

By Yujian Liu, Li An, Zelin He, Jacob Helwig, Jiabao Ji, Rohit Jain, Siyu Zhu, Shiyu Chang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Oct 5

Evolving in Thought Space: Training a Small Model at Test Time Unlocks Better Discoveries

The paper introduces Guidance‑TTT, a method that separates strategic planning from execution in test‑time training for large language models. A small guidance model is trained at test time to propose high‑level changes, while a frozen, larger execution model implements these changes, reducing the cost of maintaining gradients and optimizer states. Guidance‑TTT achieves strong results across four domains—combinatorial optimization, heuristic programming, machine learning, and GPU kernel optimization—outperforming prior work and matching state‑of‑the‑art leaderboard scores.

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.

By Dhruv Srikanth, Bingchen Zhao, Dixing Xu, Yuxiang Wu, Zhengyao Jiang