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Gemini models propose code changes
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8 picked from 129 candidates · 31 sources read · 70 loops indexed

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    Loop of the dayPaperarXiv23 Oct 2026Research automation

    SplatLab: Autonomous Scientific Discovery for 3DGS Research

    The loop: SplatLab autonomously reproduces baselines and proposes extensions for 3D Gaussian Splatting. It then uses an internal Elo tournament to score candidates on measured GPU PSNR, feeding verbal gradient feedback back into its own generation process to refine its research outputs.

    SplatLab demonstrates a fully autonomous research loop in a highly active computer vision subfield, using an internal Elo tournament to rigorously select and refine its own proposed extensions.

    loop fit 10/10Seemandhar Jain, Manmohan Chandrakervia arXiv
    SplatLab: Autonomous Scientific Discovery for 3DGS Research
  2. 02
    PaperarXiv22 Oct 2026Kernels and compilers

    CANNBot-CAKE: Collaborative Agentic Kernel Evolution for Ascend NPU

    The loop: The CAKE agent generates and evolves AscendC kernels for NPUs using a self-evolving architecture and reviewed knowledge reuse. This improves the performance of the custom operators it runs on, accelerating the hardware stack that supports the agent's own future workloads.

    loop fit 9/10Deng Pan, Xue-Jian Gao et al.via arXiv
    CANNBot-CAKE: Collaborative Agentic Kernel Evolution for Ascend NPU
  3. 03
    Articlerecursive.com21 Oct 2026Training data

    Introducing Flint

    The loop: The Eureka Machine AI system generated the training data and optimized the quantization and inference stack for the Flint model. Flint is then deployed for local agentic coding, providing an open-weights tool to further automate AI development.

    loop fit 9/10via Awesome-AI4AI
    Introducing Flint
  4. 04
    Blog postAnthropic19 Oct 2026Interpretability and oversight

    Red-Teaming Auto Mode: Improving Blocking Classifiers Against Malign Coding Agents

    The loop: An AI red-teaming process is used to probe and identify vulnerabilities in the Auto Mode blocking classifier. The classifier is then updated based on these findings, improving its ability to safely oversee and constrain the actions of autonomous coding agents.

    loop fit 7/10via Anthropic Alignment
    Red-Teaming Auto Mode: Improving Blocking Classifiers Against Malign Coding Agents
  5. 05
    ModelHugging Face22 Oct 2026Self-reward and self-play

    Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox

    The loop: ThinkingBox automates the conversion of database grading outcomes into reinforcement learning rewards. These rewards are then fed back into the post-training pipeline to improve the performance of the agents executing the database tasks.

    loop fit 7/10via Hugging Face
    Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox
  6. 06
    PaperarXiv22 Oct 2026Training data

    LongZero: Enhancing Long-Context Reasoning in LLMs from Zero Data

    The loop: The LongZero model synthesizes complex questions, answers, and supporting evidence into a compact structured form before expanding them into a long multi-document context. It then uses this self-generated data for reinforcement learning, improving its own long-context reasoning capabilities without external data.

    loop fit 9/10Zhennan Wan, Jianfei Chenvia arXiv
    LongZero: Enhancing Long-Context Reasoning in LLMs from Zero Data
  7. 07
    PaperarXiv23 Oct 2026Tools and harness

    Can LLMs Improve Their Own Harness? A Controlled Study on ARC-AGI-3

    The loop: A frontier model constructs a complete task harness for the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark and acts through it on development games. It then revises the entire codebase based on its performance, improving the orchestration of its own calls, memory, and tool use for future interactive tasks.

    loop fit 9/10Jens Lehmann, Sahar Vahdativia arXiv
    Can LLMs Improve Their Own Harness? A Controlled Study on ARC-AGI-3
  8. 08
    PaperarXivAI R&D evals

    SWE Refactor Bench: Can Coding Agents Complete a Long-Horizon, Whole-Repository Stack Migration?

    The loop: Coding agents are evaluated on their ability to complete long-horizon, whole-repository stack migrations. This benchmark provides a direct measurement of AI performance on complex software engineering tasks, guiding the development of agents that can refactor and maintain their own codebases.

    loop fit 8/10via Awesome-AI4AI
    SWE Refactor Bench: Can Coding Agents Complete a Long-Horizon, Whole-Repository Stack Migration?
AlphaEvolve
ProjectGoogle DeepMind
AlphaEvolve
  1. Gemini models propose code changes
  2. Evaluators keep best scoring versions
  3. Finds better Gemini training kernels
  4. Lowers cost to train next Gemini models
  5. repeat
Kernels and compilersGoogle DeepMind · 2025
Darwin Gödel Machine
PaperarXiv
Darwin Gödel Machine
  1. Coding agent edits its own code
  2. Scored child agents enter the archive
  3. Archived agents make later self modifications
  4. repeat
Self-modifying agentsUBC, Vector Institute, Sakana AI · 2025
AlphaChip
ProjectGoogle DeepMind
AlphaChip
  1. RL agent lays out TPU blocks
  2. Better layouts make AI hardware cheaper
  3. Agent pre-trains on earlier chip generations
  4. repeat
Hardware and chipsGoogle DeepMind, Google Research · 2020
autoresearch
Mini-projectGitHub
autoresearch
  1. Coding agent edits LLM training script
  2. Runs a 5-minute training job
  3. Keeps change if validation improves
  4. Changes transferred to larger models
  5. repeat
Research automationAndrej Karpathy · 2026
ScholarEvolve
PaperarXiv
ScholarEvolve
  1. Research agent writes harness mutation blueprints
  2. Coding agent implements harness module changes
  3. Winning harness becomes the new champion
  4. New champion harness runs further generations
  5. repeat
Tools and harnessYang et al. (UC Santa Barbara, Microsoft) · 2026
Nemotron-4 340B
PaperarXiv
Nemotron-4 340B
  1. Aligned model generates training data
  2. Reward model judges and filters it
  3. Data trains next intermediate instruct model
  4. Next model generates better alignment data
  5. repeat
Training dataNVIDIA · 2024
Self-Rewarding LMs
PaperarXiv
Self-Rewarding LMs
  1. Model generates candidate responses to prompts
  2. Model scores them itself as a judge
  3. Scores become preference pairs for DPO
  4. Trained model becomes next generator and judge
  5. repeat
Self-reward and self-playMeta, NYU (Yuan et al.) · 2024
Claude Code
ProjectAnthropic
Claude Code
  1. Claude Code writes its own code changes
  2. Changes become next Claude Code versions
  3. Release becomes harness for next development round
  4. repeat
Self-modifying agentsAnthropic · 2025
KernelEvolve
ProjectarXiv
KernelEvolve
  1. LLM agents write and benchmark kernels
  2. Kernels speed up AI model training
  3. Session data post-trains smaller kernel models
  4. repeat
Kernels and compilersMeta · 2025
PostTrainBench
BenchmarkarXiv
PostTrainBench
  1. Coding agent writes fine-tuning code
  2. Agent post-trains a base LLM
  3. Trained model scored on target benchmark
  4. One turn of model training another
  5. repeat
AI R&D evalsELLIS Institute Tubingen, MPI-IS, University of Tubingen, Thoughtful Lab (Rank et al.) · 2026
Self-training learned optimizers
FoundationarXiv
Self-training learned optimizers
  1. Learned optimizers update other learned optimizers
  2. Training keeps best performing optimizer parameters
  3. Better optimizers train each other faster
  4. repeat
Architecture and optimizer searchMetz et al. (Google Research, Brain Team) · 2021
CoT monitoring
PaperarXiv
CoT monitoring
  1. LLM reads reasoning model thoughts
  2. LLM flags reward hacking behavior
  3. Signal feeds back into training reward
  4. Trains more aligned capable agents
  5. repeat
Interpretability and oversightOpenAI (Baker et al.) · 2025

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