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- 01Loop of the day28 Oct 2026Kernels and compilers
A Case Study of a Multi-Agent Kernel-Optimization Loop That Learns a New AI Accelerator
The loop: An LLM agent loop builds a target knowledge base of DSL documentation and microbenchmarks to autonomously optimize decode kernels, which run the models that power the agent.
An LLM agent loop autonomously learns a new AI accelerator's DSL to optimize the very decode kernels that will run its successors.

- 0228 Oct 2026Training data
A-RSI: Adaptive Task Refresh for Zero-Data Multimodal Self-Improvement
The loop: A-RSI monitors its own training logs to decide when to refresh a task pool with model-authored programs, enabling continuous multimodal self-improvement without external data.

- 0330 Oct 2026Research automation
Intelligence Report: SNSのAI分析からみる米中間選挙
The loop: Sakana Marlin uses multiple AI agents to parallelize hypothesis search and evaluate each other, improving the accuracy and depth of the research reports it generates.

- 0428 Oct 2026Tools and harness
Masked Erosion: How Acceptance Gates Lose Redundant Safeguards in Self-Improving Agents
The loop: An AI agent edits its own harness prompts and rules, using an automated gate to measure and retain improvements to its own operating environment.

- 0527 Oct 2026Hardware and chips
Auto repair for Together GPU Clusters: from GPU fault to healthy node
The loop: The auto repair system detects and fixes GPU and fabric faults, which maintains the availability of the hardware used to train and run the system's successors.
loop fit 6/10via Together AI
- 0628 Oct 2026Self-reward and self-play
SCOPE: Selective Critical-Step On-Policy Self-Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
The loop: The SCOPE policy analyzes its own trajectories to generate step-specific hindsight skills, distilling their guidance back into itself at selected error steps.

- 0728 Oct 2026Research automation
Build, Don't Play: Self-Improving LLM Research Agents Develop a Hearthstone Battlegrounds AI That Rivals Top Players
The loop: AutoTavern uses LLM research agents to build a game simulator and policy from live feedback, which improves their shared research memory and process, making the agents better at researching the game.

- 0824 Oct 2026Tools and harness
When the Critic Falls Behind: Co-Evolving Rubrics and Harnesses for Continual Agent Self-Improvement
The loop: RuHarness discovers behavioral criteria from execution trajectories to update its own harness, which improves the supervision used to guide the agent's future execution.

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- Gemini models propose code changes
- Evaluators keep best scoring versions
- Finds better Gemini training kernels
- Lowers cost to train next Gemini models
- repeat

- Coding agent edits its own code
- Scored child agents enter the archive
- Archived agents make later self modifications
- repeat

- RL agent lays out TPU blocks
- Better layouts make AI hardware cheaper
- Agent pre-trains on earlier chip generations
- repeat

- Coding agent edits LLM training script
- Runs a 5-minute training job
- Keeps change if validation improves
- Changes transferred to larger models
- repeat

- Research agent writes harness mutation blueprints
- Coding agent implements harness module changes
- Winning harness becomes the new champion
- New champion harness runs further generations
- repeat

- Aligned model generates training data
- Reward model judges and filters it
- Data trains next intermediate instruct model
- Next model generates better alignment data
- repeat

- Model generates candidate responses to prompts
- Model scores them itself as a judge
- Scores become preference pairs for DPO
- Trained model becomes next generator and judge
- repeat

- Claude Code writes its own code changes
- Changes become next Claude Code versions
- Release becomes harness for next development round
- repeat

- LLM agents write and benchmark kernels
- Kernels speed up AI model training
- Session data post-trains smaller kernel models
- repeat

- Coding agent writes fine-tuning code
- Agent post-trains a base LLM
- Trained model scored on target benchmark
- One turn of model training another
- repeat

- Learned optimizers update other learned optimizers
- Training keeps best performing optimizer parameters
- Better optimizers train each other faster
- repeat

- LLM reads reasoning model thoughts
- LLM flags reward hacking behavior
- Signal feeds back into training reward
- Trains more aligned capable agents
- repeat
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