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  1. 01
    Loop of the dayPaperarXiv7 Oct 2026Training data

    AdvSim2Real: Training Web Agents Against Adaptive Prompt Injection in a Web World Model

    The loop: A web world model co-evolves a task curriculum and an injection adversary to train a web agent. The resulting training data improves the agent's robustness and capability, allowing it to handle more difficult tasks and stronger adversaries in the next iteration.

    Co-evolving a task curriculum and an adversary inside a simulated web environment creates a robust training loop that hardens agents against adaptive prompt injections.

    loop fit 10/10Sarim Hashmi, Mukul Ranjan, Kshitij Mishra, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Praneeth...via arXiv
    AdvSim2Real: Training Web Agents Against Adaptive Prompt Injection in a Web World Model
  2. 02
    PaperarXiv6 Oct 2026Architecture and optimizer search

    RLDiscover: LLM-Driven Co-Evolution of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

    The loop: The RLDiscover framework progressively co-evolves the components of model-free deep reinforcement learning algorithms. The discovered algorithms improve the learning efficiency of the agents that use them, providing better fitness signals for the framework to discover even stronger algorithms.

    loop fit 9/10Haoran Li, Zengle Ge et al.via arXiv
    RLDiscover: LLM-Driven Co-Evolution of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
  3. 03
    PaperarXiv8 Oct 2026Tools and harness

    Harness Evolution Hits a Ceiling: When Weight Training Should Begin

    The loop: A self-evolving harness loop repairs process failures to generate successful execution trajectories for an LLM agent. These trajectories are then used to train the model's weights, internalizing the gains and making the model better under the original harness.

    loop fit 9/10Yuan Tian, Bing Hu et al.via arXiv
    Harness Evolution Hits a Ceiling: When Weight Training Should Begin
  4. 04
    PaperarXiv6 Oct 2026Self-modifying agents

    Learning from Revision Consequences: Hindsight Meta-Experience Distillation for Self-Improving Agents

    The loop: A self-improving agent constructs meta-experience by re-executing incumbent and revised meta-skills from the same restored discovery state. This hindsight distillation improves the agent's meta-skills, making it better at discovering and refining future task-skills.

    loop fit 9/10Qianhan Feng, Zhongzhen Huang et al.via arXiv
    Learning from Revision Consequences: Hindsight Meta-Experience Distillation for Self-Improving Agents
  5. 05
    PaperarXiv8 Oct 2026Training data

    SynCo: Data Synthesis Co-Training for Self-Evolving LLMs via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    The loop: A Synthesizer agent constructs training tasks based on a Reasoner agent's current capabilities, and the Reasoner learns from the resulting experience. The outcomes of the Reasoner's rollouts provide complementary rewards that jointly optimize both agents, making the Synthesizer better at generating informative tasks.

    loop fit 9/10Wei Yang, Shawn Li et al.via arXiv
    SynCo: Data Synthesis Co-Training for Self-Evolving LLMs via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  6. 06
    PaperarXiv9 Oct 2026Self-reward and self-play

    The Red Queen Gödel Machine: Co-Evolving Agents and Their Evaluators

    The loop: A coder agent and a reviewer agent co-evolve under non-stationary utilities. The reviewer grades patches to guide the coder's search, while the coder's output helps the reviewer refine its grading rubric, making both better at their respective tasks.

    loop fit 10/10Alex Iacob, Andrej Jovanovi\'c, William F. Shen, Daniel Burkhardt, Meghdad...via arXiv
    The Red Queen Gödel Machine: Co-Evolving Agents and Their Evaluators
  7. 07
    PaperarXiv7 Oct 2026Kernels and compilers

    KernelOPT: Dispatch-Aware Agentic Search for GPU Kernel Optimization

    The loop: A multi-agent system profiles and optimizes generated Triton sub-kernels within compiled models. This improves the execution efficiency of the models and allows the agents to verify the re-stitched model end-to-end.

    loop fit 9/10Aheli Poddar, Sanskar Prasad, Arindam Samanta, Subha Chakraborty, Vishal...via arXiv
    KernelOPT: Dispatch-Aware Agentic Search for GPU Kernel Optimization
  8. 08
    PaperarXiv8 Oct 2026Research automation

    Language Models as AI Research World Models

    The loop: Language models act as Research World Models to predict the outcomes of candidate AI research experiments. This improves the selection of future interventions and generates new experimental data to further train the world model.

    loop fit 9/10Zijun Wang, Zewen Liu et al.via arXiv
    Language Models as AI Research World Models
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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