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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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7 picked from 136 candidates · 31 sources read · 76 loops indexed

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    Loop of the dayPaperarXiv11 Nov 2026Training data

    One Byte, One Token: Byteifying a 27B Hybrid-Attention LLM with Self-Generated Data

    The loop: A 27B subword model generates on-policy dialogue and behavioral supervision data, which is used to train its conversion into a pure byte-level model, making its successor capable of byte-level processing.

    A 27B model generates its own training data to convert itself into a pure byte-level model, demonstrating how models can bootstrap their own architectural transformations.

    loop fit 9/10Liwei Zhang, ZhiMing Tongvia arXiv
    One Byte, One Token: Byteifying a 27B Hybrid-Attention LLM with Self-Generated Data
  2. 02
    PaperarXiv7 Nov 2026Training data

    No Second Run: Does RSI Stop at Frontier Pre-training?

    The loop: The system decomposes frontier pre-training into smaller loops that repair broken steps, which improves the data pipelines and infrastructure, making the resulting foundation model better.

    loop fit 9/10Xiaojie Cai, Jiayi Chen et al.via arXiv
    No Second Run: Does RSI Stop at Frontier Pre-training?
  3. 03
    ProjectGitHub8 Nov 2026Tools and harness

    TokenRhythm/InfraRSI

    The loop: The InfraRSI agentic harness co-optimizes launch knobs and code patches for distributed training, which improves the training infrastructure, making the system more efficient at running its own optimization tasks.

    loop fit 8/10TokenRhythmvia GitHub
    TokenRhythm/InfraRSI
  4. 04
    Blog postAnthropic7 Nov 2026Training data

    Diluting Poisoned Fine-Tuning Data Can Strengthen Its Effect

    The loop: A model analyzes the effects of poisoned fine-tuning data, which improves data filtering strategies, which makes future models more robust against data poisoning.

    loop fit 8/10via Anthropic Alignment
    Diluting Poisoned Fine-Tuning Data Can Strengthen Its Effect
  5. 05
    PaperarXiv10 Nov 2026Self-modifying agents

    When Should Agents Remember? Falsification-Gated Self-Evolution for LLM Agents

    The loop: An LLM agent generates structured hypotheses from its experiences and tests them through a falsification-gated process, which improves its persistent memory, making the agent more successful and safer at future tasks.

    loop fit 9/10Runxuan Tang, Haoyu Gao et al.via arXiv
    When Should Agents Remember? Falsification-Gated Self-Evolution for LLM Agents
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    ProjectGitHub5 Nov 2026Research automation

    zou-group/BVSR

    The loop: The BVSR framework applies evolutionary principles to the generation and selection of creative research ideas, which improves the AI scientists, making them better at autonomous scientific discovery.

    loop fit 7/10zou-groupvia GitHub
    zou-group/BVSR
  7. 07
    PaperarXiv11 Nov 2026Tools and harness

    Compile-Gated Lean Proof Refactoring with Enterprise Agent Practices: A Model per Step under a US$3 Cap, Followed by Programmatic Rewrite Rules

    The loop: Vexorium-Agent records its proof attempts and converts learned patterns into compiler-checked programmatic rewrite rules, which improves its own harness, making the agent more effective at solving future Lean proofs.

    loop fit 9/10Bobber Chengvia arXiv
    Compile-Gated Lean Proof Refactoring with Enterprise Agent Practices: A Model per Step under a US$3 Cap, Followed by Programmatic Rewrite Rules
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    PaperarXiv9 Nov 2026Research automation

    Where is all the AI safety research uplift?

    The loop: Frontier AI models perform research and engineering tasks to accelerate capability progress. This increased development velocity directly speeds up the creation of successor models, which are in turn more capable at research and engineering.

    loop fit 9/10Yifan Zhang, Hengxuan Lou, Xinkui Zhao, Rengrong Xiong, Naibo Wang, Chang Liu,...via arXiv
    Where is all the AI safety research uplift?
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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