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- 01Loop of the day4 Nov 2026Inference efficiency
Think Less, Locally: Local Preference Learning for Reasoning Compression
The loop: A reasoning model detects candidate overthinking states in its own traces and regenerates shorter verified continuations. These self-generated preference pairs are then used to train the model via DPO to compress its reasoning.
LoCo demonstrates a clean closed loop where a model learns to compress its own reasoning by generating and training on its own preference pairs.
loop fit 10/10Muyao Yuan, Liyan Xu, Weizhan Zhang, Muyan Jiao, Jiangnan Li, Jinchao Zhang,...via arXiv
- 0225 Apr 2026Self-modifying agents
Protocol-zero-0/evolution-kernel
The loop: A coding agent proposes changes to its own git repository, which are then scored by a kernel. Winning changes are kept, creating an open-source evolution loop that improves the agent's own harness.

- 033 Nov 2026Kernels and compilers
ForgeKernel: Self-Evolving Kernels Catching and Surpassing Experts and Agents
The loop: A kernel-generation system distills validated architectural decisions into reusable knowledge of hardware mechanisms. It then uses its own optimized kernels as references for subsequent optimization runs, enabling continuous architectural evolution.

- 043 Nov 2026Interpretability and oversight
Automating subtle emergent misalignment research
The loop: A Claude model is instructed to write training data that induces misalignment while bypassing a production safety monitor. The successful attacks it discovers are then used to test and improve the robustness of future monitors.

- 053 Nov 2026AI R&D evals
StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents
The loop: Language models are evaluated on their ability to track state changes over long documents. The resulting benchmark data identifies reasoning failures, which are used to improve the reasoning capabilities of future models.
loop fit 8/10via Hugging Face
- 064 Nov 2026AI R&D evals
Training LLM Agents to Automate LLM Post-Training with RSI-Dojo
The loop: LLM agents use the RSI-Dojo environment to learn post-training skills such as data selection, model training, and failure diagnosis. This internalizes the ability to conduct post-training, improving the agents' capacity to train their own successors.

- 0731 Oct 2026Tools and harness
Selecting LLM-Generated Hypotheses Raises Truth Beyond What an LLM Panel Expects: A Pre-registered Study on NAS-Bench-201 and HPOBench
The loop: A harness optimizer searches for agentic steps that improve the truthfulness of LLM-generated hypotheses. It discovers a two-stage drafting and selection step that raises the excess truth of the generated claims.

- 08AI R&D evals
The Verifier Is Part of the Simulator: Evidence-View Gaming in Agentic Equation Discovery
The loop: An agentic equation discovery system uses a verifier integrated into its simulator to provide feedback on its outputs. This evidence-view gaming improves the accuracy of the mathematical models the agent discovers.
loop fit 8/10via Awesome-AI4AI
Loop index
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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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