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AlphaEvolve
Project · Google DeepMind
Gemini models propose code changes
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8 picked from 125 candidates · 31 sources read · 72 loops indexed

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    Loop of the dayPaperarXiv26 Oct 2026Research automation

    Infinity Machine: a self-improving AI agent for research

    The loop: An AI agent modifies its own harness, prompts, and meta agent to solve and verify open scientific problems. These modifications pass through a kernel-enforced gate and are directly used by the agent to conduct further autonomous research.

    Infinity Machine demonstrates a closed loop where an agent autonomously edits its own harness and meta-agent to achieve state-of-the-art results in quantum information.

    loop fit 10/10Harish Santhanalakshmi Ganesanvia arXiv
    Infinity Machine: a self-improving AI agent for research
  2. 02
    PaperarXiv25 Oct 2026AI R&D evals

    ParetoRSI-Gym: Can AI Agents Improve Language Models Across Multiple Domains?

    The loop: An agent searches for and curates training data to post-train its own successor across multiple domains. The resulting model is evaluated on generalization benchmarks, and the results guide the agent in the next round of data selection.

    loop fit 9/10Haojin Wang, Yangzhen Wu et al.via arXiv
    ParetoRSI-Gym: Can AI Agents Improve Language Models Across Multiple Domains?
  3. 03
    Blog postNVIDIA26 Oct 2026Hardware and chips

    How NVIDIA Minerva Turns Telemetry Chaos Into Peak GPU Yield

    The loop: AI models analyze telemetry to optimize GPU yield and cluster resiliency in AI factories. This optimization improves the hardware infrastructure that trains and runs those same AI models.

    loop fit 7/10Elizabeth Goodmanvia NVIDIA Technical Blog
    How NVIDIA Minerva Turns Telemetry Chaos Into Peak GPU Yield
  4. 04
    PaperarXiv22 Oct 2026Tools and harness

    Reproducible Evaluation as the Substrate for Safe Prompt Compression in Production Agents

    The loop: An offline evaluation harness drives GEPA-based prompt optimization for a production conversational agent. The resulting compressed prompt is deployed back to the agent, shrinking its prompt surface while maintaining or improving task correctness.

    loop fit 9/10Prabal Vashisht, Zheng Hu et al.via arXiv
    Reproducible Evaluation as the Substrate for Safe Prompt Compression in Production Agents
  5. 05
    Blog postOpenAI26 Oct 2026Tools and harness

    How Ultrafast cut incident investigation from hours to minutes at OpenAI

    The loop: Codex Ultrafast helps engineers investigate incidents and refactor code. This accelerates the development and security analysis of the underlying AI systems, including Codex itself.

    loop fit 6/10via OpenAI
    How Ultrafast cut incident investigation from hours to minutes at OpenAI
  6. 06
    PaperarXiv23 Oct 2026Training data

    On-Policy Self-Training: Data-Free Self-Improvement in Large Language Models

    The loop: A foundation model synthesizes its own curriculum of queries and privileged reasoning traces guided only by high-level topic descriptions. These synthetic traces are used for on-policy self-distillation, improving the model's performance across multiple domains.

    loop fit 9/10Leon Sick, Lukas Hoyer et al.via arXiv
    On-Policy Self-Training: Data-Free Self-Improvement in Large Language Models
  7. 07
    PaperarXivTools and harness

    Harness Evolution as Learning: Approximation, Generalization, and Optimization Limits of Self-Improving Personal Agents

    The loop: Personal agents evolve their own harnesses to optimize performance on tasks. The evolved harness is then deployed as the runtime environment for the agents, improving their execution of future tasks.

    loop fit 8/10via Awesome-AI4AI
    Harness Evolution as Learning: Approximation, Generalization, and Optimization Limits of Self-Improving Personal Agents
  8. 08
    PaperarXivResearch automation

    Agon: An Autonomous Large-Scale Omnidisciplinary Research System Built on Prompt Economy

    The loop: An autonomous system automates large-scale omnidisciplinary research tasks using a prompt economy. This automation improves the efficiency of the research process, which is then used to develop better AI systems.

    loop fit 7/10via Awesome-AI4AI
    Agon: An Autonomous Large-Scale Omnidisciplinary Research System Built on Prompt Economy
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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