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Agentic evolution has emerged as a powerful paradigm for improving programs, workflows, and scientific solutions by iteratively generating candidates, evaluating them, and using feedback to guide future search. However, existing methods are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jiayi Zhang , Yongfeng Gu , Jianhao Ruan , Maojia Song , Yiran Peng , Zhiguang Han , Jinyu Xiang , Zhitao Wang , Caiyin Yang , Yixi Ouyang , Bang Liu , Chenglin Wu , Yuyu Luo

Self-evolving memory systems are unprecedentedly reshaping the evolutionary paradigm of large language model (LLM)-based agents. Prior work has predominantly relied on manually engineered memory architectures to store trajectories, distill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Guibin Zhang , Haotian Ren , Chong Zhan , Zhenhong Zhou , Junhao Wang , He Zhu , Wangchunshu Zhou , Shuicheng Yan

As Large Language Models (LLMs) move from curated training sets into open-ended real-world environments, a fundamental limitation emerges: static training cannot keep pace with continual deployment environment change. Scaling training-time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Minhua Lin , Hanqing Lu , Zhan Shi , Bing He , Rui Mao , Zhiwei Zhang , Zongyu Wu , Xianfeng Tang , Hui Liu , Zhenwei Dai , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang , Benoit Dumoulin , Jian Pei

Self-evolving agents offer a promising path toward scalable autonomy. However, in this work, we show that in competitive environments, self-evolution can instead give rise to a serious and previously underexplored risk: the spontaneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zonghao Ying , Haowen Dai , Tianyuan Zhang , Yisong Xiao , Quanchen Zou , Aishan Liu , Jian Yang , Yaodong Yang , Xianglong Liu

Evaluating instruction-guided image edits requires rewards that reflect subtle human preferences, yet current reward models typically depend on large-scale preference annotation and additional model training. This creates a data-efficiency…

This study proposes a multi-agent language framework that enables continual strategy evolution without fine-tuning the language model's parameters. The core idea is to liberate the latent vectors of abstract concepts from traditional static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenlong Tang

Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to significantly enhance human productivity by reasoning, using tools, and executing complex tasks in diverse environments. However, current approaches to…

Recent advancements in state-of-the-art (SOTA) Large Language Model (LLM) agents, especially in multi-turn dialogue tasks, have been primarily driven by supervised fine-tuning and high-quality human feedback. However, as base LLM models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Barrett Martin Lattimer , Varun Gangal , Ryan McDonald , Yi Yang

We propose Speech Enhancement based on Drifting Models (DriftSE), a novel generative framework that formulates denoising as an equilibrium problem. Rather than relying on iterative sampling, DriftSE natively achieves one-step inference by…

LLM-driven evolutionary systems have shown promise for automated science discovery, yet existing approaches such as AlphaEvolve rely on full-code histories that are context-inefficient and potentially provide weak evolutionary guidance. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jiachen Jiang , Tianyu Ding , Zhihui Zhu

Harnesses are now central to coding-agent performance, mediating how models interact with tools and execution environments. Yet harness engineering remains a manual craft, because automating it faces a heterogeneous action space across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jiahang Lin , Shichun Liu , Chengjun Pan , Lizhi Lin , Shihan Dou , Zhiheng Xi , Xuanjing Huang , Hang Yan , Zhenhua Han , Tao Gui , Yu-Gang Jiang

While large language model--powered agents can self-evolve by accumulating experience or by dynamically creating new assets (i.e., tools or expert agents), existing frameworks typically treat these two evolutionary processes in isolation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zihao Cheng , Zeming Liu , Yingyu Shan , Xinyi Wang , Xiangrong Zhu , Yunpu Ma , Hongru Wang , Yuhang Guo , Wei Lin , Yunhong Wang

LLM-based evolution has emerged as a promising way to improve agents by refining non-parametric artifacts, but its wall-clock cost remains a major bottleneck. We identify that this cost comes from synchronized stage execution and imbalance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhengding Hu , Mingge Lu , Zhen Wang , Jixuan Ruan , Chang Chen , Zaifeng Pan , Yue Guan , Ruiyi Wang , Zhongkai Yu , Chao Zhang , Yufei Ding

Self-evolving agents present a promising path toward continual adaptation by distilling task interactions into reusable knowledge artifacts. In practice, this paradigm remains hindered by two coupled bottlenecks: data inefficiency, where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Feng Xiong , Zengbin Wang , Yong Wang , Xuecai Hu , Jinghan He , Liang Lin , Yuan Liu , Xiangxiang Chu

LLM agents are shaped not only by their language models, but also by the runtime harness that mediates observation, tool use, action execution, feedback interpretation, and trajectory control. While existing agent adaptation methods mainly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tianshi Xu , Huifeng Wen , Meng Li

AI agents are increasingly deployed in production, yet their security evaluations remain bottlenecked by manual red-teaming or static benchmarks that fail to model adaptive, multi-turn adversaries. We propose NAAMSE, an evolutionary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kunal Pai , Parth Shah , Harshil Patel

Achieving truly adaptive embodied intelligence requires agents that learn not just by imitating static demonstrations, but by continuously improving through environmental interaction, which is akin to how humans master skills through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Zechen Bai , Chen Gao , Mike Zheng Shou

Large language models have become drivers of evolutionary search, but most systems rely on a fixed, prompt-elicited policy to sample next candidates. This limits adaptation in practical engineering and research tasks, where evaluations are…

Large language models hold promise as scientific assistants, yet existing agents either rely solely on algorithm evolution or on deep research in isolation, both of which face critical limitations. Pure algorithm evolution, as in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Gang Liu , Yihan Zhu , Jie Chen , Meng Jiang

Designing effective reward functions is crucial to training reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. However, this design is non-trivial, even for domain experts, due to the subjective nature of certain tasks that are hard to quantify…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Rishi Hazra , Alkis Sygkounas , Andreas Persson , Amy Loutfi , Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires
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