arXiv Computation and Language By Tong Zheng, Xidong Wu, Zheng Zhang, Zhankui He, Chaoyi Zhang, Benjamin Coleman, Ruoqiao Wei, Di Bai, Haolin Liu, Rui Liu, Xue Wang, Yue Zhuan, Wang-Cheng Kang, Renkai Xiang, Heng Huang, Xinwu Cheng, Yunsong Guo

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

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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
arXiv AI
6d ago

ExplorationBench: Measuring AI Systems' Exploration in Verifiable Alien Worlds

ExplorationBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate AI systems’ ability to conduct scientific exploration in verifiable alien worlds. It comprises two sandbox environments—AlienCode and AlienLogic—each containing discovery targets, tasks, flawed manuals, and tool‑call schemas that force systems to formulate hypotheses, design experiments, and iterate on results. Ten AI systems were tested, revealing that while the best performers can learn and apply unfamiliar rules, their progress varies across exploration trajectories and can even regress with continued exploration.

By Ming Zhang, Zhenghao Xiang, Peizhong Gao, Yujiong Shen, Yuhui Wang, Zhonghan Yue, Shihan Dou, Zhangyue Yin, Junjie Ye, Shichun Liu, Weihuang Zheng, Jiahao Chen, Jiayi Chen, Hongzhang Liu, Jiaqi Shao, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Suncong Zheng, Maxm Pan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
6d ago

ExplorationBench: Measuring AI Systems' Exploration in Verifiable Alien Worlds

ExplorationBench is a benchmark designed to evaluate AI systems’ ability to conduct scientific exploration in verifiable alien worlds, where rules are executable and can be precisely checked. It consists of two sandboxes—AlienCode and AlienLogic—each offering discovery targets, tasks, flawed manuals, environmental feedback, and tool‑call schemas. The benchmark tests whether systems can generate new hypotheses, design experiments, and iterate on results, rather than merely recalling pre‑trained knowledge, and finds that top performers can acquire and apply unfamiliar rules, though performance varies across exploration trajectories.

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."

By Bo Liu, Simon Yu, Yiding Jiang, Ao Qu, Andrew Zhao, Zichen Liu, Junsu Kim, Zijian Zhou, Seungone Kim, Tongzheng Ren, Mickel Liu, Hanfei Yu, Zhaorun Chen, Weiyan Shi, Paul Pu Liang, Luke Zettlemoyer, Yejin Choi, Natasha Jaques