Models can build their own agent software, but improvements generalize unreliably

Across 27 independently developed agent harnesses, two autonomous revisions produced a small, uncertain average gain on games withheld from adaptation.

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Jens Lehmann · Sahar Vahdati

Amazon · Technische Universität Dresden · Universität Hannover · TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library

Research Digest··2 min read
Jens Lehmann and Sahar Vahdati tested whether language models could improve the software that controls their own interaction with unfamiliar games, without human code edits.

The authors studied ARC-AGI-3, an interactive benchmark where agents must explore unfamiliar environments and discover their objectives.

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