arXiv AI By Changzhi Liu, Yilun Liu, Sikuan Yan, Volker Tresp, Yunpu Ma

Mendel G\"odel Machine: Recursive Self-Improving Coding Agents via Comparative Evolution

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arXiv:2608. 07645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving coding agents that iteratively rewrite their own source code have demonstrated impressive performance on coding tasks.

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