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AlphaEvolve
Project · Google DeepMind
Gemini models propose code changes
From the labalphaBell Qwen Open27B post-training research, with capability tradeoffs measured.Explore the model → From the labModel ObservatoryMeasured Flint and Qwen traces with published decoder maps.Open the lab tool → From the labMiniMax Video BudgetVisualize sampled frames, two-frame groups and vision placeholders.Try the inspector → From the labMOSS Blind Layout CheckCompare exact text and placement in two local images.Try the blind check → From the labAgent Request Evidence LadderSee what a trace proves about an agent's request and its outcome.Explore the cases →

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12 picked from 92 candidates · 31 sources read · 76 loops indexed

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    Loop of the dayNewsAlignment Forum8 Nov 2026Research automation

    Ajeya: AI is dramatically accelerating AI research right now

    The loop: Anthropic's AI systems automate AI R&D, which accelerates capabilities progress, leading to better successor models that are even better at automating AI R&D.

    Anthropic's internal report suggests the company has crossed its 'dramatic acceleration' threshold, marking a major milestone in AI automating its own R&D.

    loop fit 10/10Zach Stein-Perlmanvia Alignment Forum
    Ajeya: AI is dramatically accelerating AI research right now
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    PaperarXiv6 Nov 2026Tools and harness

    Flex-RSI: Benchmarking Recursive Self-Improvement of Frontier Agents

    The loop: An improver agent revises its own harness and executor based on task feedback, which improves the agent's ability to solve vision and robotics tasks in subsequent rounds.

    loop fit 9/10Jingdong Zhang, Jionghao Wang et al.via arXiv
    Flex-RSI: Benchmarking Recursive Self-Improvement of Frontier Agents
  3. 03
    ProjectGitHub4 Nov 2026Tools and harness

    meat-daemon-404/dsh-plugin-immune

    The loop: A coding agent converts its own failed tool calls into immunity rules, which improves the agent's future performance by preventing repeated mistakes.

    loop fit 7/10meat-daemon-404via GitHub
    meat-daemon-404/dsh-plugin-immune
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    Blog postAnthropic6 Nov 2026Self-modifying agents

    The components of agent memory

    The loop: Claude uses a dreaming mechanism to organize memory and correct mistakes, which improves its internal state, which makes the model better at learning from experience.

    loop fit 7/10via Anthropic
    The components of agent memory
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    PaperarXiv9 Nov 2026Research automation

    ReproBridge: Building Reproducibility into ML Research Artifacts

    The loop: The ReproBridge agent constructs reproducible research artifacts, which improves the ability of successor agents to reproduce and build on ML research.

    loop fit 9/10Pranjal Srivastavavia arXiv
    ReproBridge: Building Reproducibility into ML Research Artifacts
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    PaperarXiv6 Nov 2026Kernels and compilers

    MorphSched: Workload-Aware Adaptive Scheduler Generation for Linux

    The loop: MorphSched uses an LLM to synthesize Linux schedulers, which improves system performance, and uses that performance feedback to refine its generation strategy.

    loop fit 9/10Baolin Chong, Dongfang Xu et al.via arXiv
    MorphSched: Workload-Aware Adaptive Scheduler Generation for Linux
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    PaperarXiv6 Nov 2026Self-modifying agents

    Test-Time Learning with an Evolving Library

    The loop: EvoLib extracts knowledge abstractions from its own inference trajectories to build a shared library, which improves the model's performance on subsequent problem instances.

    loop fit 9/10Yuhao Tan, Hanyun Jiang et al.via arXiv
    Test-Time Learning with an Evolving Library
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    PaperarXiv9 Nov 2026Tools and harness

    meat-daemon-404/dsh-plugin-immune

    The loop: A coding agent converts its own failed tool calls into immunity rules, which are injected to prevent repeated mistakes, improving its future performance.

    loop fit 7/10Jianuo Shen, Pengyi Xu, Bo Zhangvia arXiv
    meat-daemon-404/dsh-plugin-immune
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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