arXiv AI
Oct 23

GuideEvolve: Self-Evolving Agent Framework with Expert Guidance and 3Ts Mechanisms

GuideEvolve is a self‑evolving agent framework that uses expert guidance and three autonomous regulatory mechanisms—Think Fast and Slow, Throwback, and Termination by choice—to address limitations in existing self‑evolving agents. The framework introduces a task‑specific expert‑evaluation‑driven evolutionary pipeline and integrates the 3Ts mechanisms for cognitive optimization, performance recovery, and adaptive termination. Empirical results on MGSM and MMLU show comparable accuracy to state‑of‑the‑art models, reduced variance, a 100% evolution success rate, and about 50% fewer optimization iterations.

By Meihong Jia, Yasemin Timar, Jonathan Taws
arXiv AI
Sep 2

HarnessEvolve: Learning from Reference Trajectories for Reliable Agent Self-Evolution

HarnessEvolve is a self‑evolving framework that improves agent harnesses—prompts, skills, tools, and execution logic—by learning from reference trajectories. It separates execution, evaluation, optimization, and gating into independent modules, addressing credit assignment failure, shortcut learning, and catastrophic forgetting. The approach uses reference trajectories to extract error signals, applies quality and performance gates to candidate updates, and validates updates on held‑out data, consistently outperforming state‑of‑the‑art baselines across diverse benchmarks.

By Wen Jiang, Mingmin Chu, Yimeng Tian, Qianxin Zhang, Haofei Yang, Rui Yang, Yang Liu, Tao Lv, Fangming Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

FreeEvolve: Learning to Evolve Beyond Fixed Loops

FREEEVOLVE automates the optimization loop used by agent evolvers, allowing the system to decide what to test, how much evidence to gather, which candidates to pursue, and when to stop, all within specified resource limits. By treating these decisions as an editable evolution skill and improving them through meta‑evolution, the method learns a capability that replaces hand‑crafted search loops. Experiments on several benchmarks show that FREEEVOLVE improves primary metrics by an average of 13.6 points and that meta‑evolved skills add further gains, indicating transferability across environments.

By Lecheng Kong, Like Hui, Nikos Kanakaris, Prithwish Jana, Sahika Genc, Narayanan Sadagopan