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arXiv AI By Yikang Yang, Zhengxin Yang, Luzhou Peng, Minghao Luo, Yanqi Kan, Wanling Gao, Jianfeng Zhan

When AI Designs AI: Innovation or Imitation?

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The paper investigates whether large language model (LLM) agents can design AI methods that outperform or differ from human-designed approaches. By mapping both human- and agent-designed methods into task‑specific algorithmic design spaces, the authors evaluate performance and algorithmic differences across multiple modalities. Results show that while agents occasionally match or exceed human state‑of‑the‑art performance, 96.8% of their designs fall within human‑derived spaces, often recombining or exactly matching existing human algorithms.

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