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20192026
most citedThe AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery

114 citations · 231 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.AI2026

Towards End-to-End Automation of AI Research

Yutaro Yamada, Robert Tjarko Lange, Cong Lu +5

The automation of science is a long-standing ambition in the field of AI. While the community has made significant progress in automating individual components of the scientific pr…

cs.CL2026★ 18 cited

OpenAI GPT-5 System Card

Aaditya Singh, Adam Fry, Adam Perelman +483

This is the system card published alongside the OpenAI GPT-5 launch, August 2025. GPT-5 is a unified system with a smart and fast model that answers most questions, a deeper reason…

cs.CL2025

gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card

OpenAI, :, Sandhini Agarwal +124

We present gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, two open-weight reasoning models that push the frontier of accuracy and inference cost. The models use an efficient mixture-of-expert trans…

cs.AI2025★ 30 cited

The AI Scientist-v2: Workshop-Level Automated Scientific Discovery via Agentic Tree Search

Yutaro Yamada, Robert Tjarko Lange, Cong Lu +5

AI is increasingly playing a pivotal role in transforming how scientific discoveries are made. We introduce The AI Scientist-v2, an end-to-end agentic system capable of producing t…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models

Akarsh Kumar, Chris Lu, Louis Kirsch +4

With the recent Nobel Prize awarded for radical advances in protein discovery, foundation models (FMs) for exploring large combinatorial spaces promise to revolutionize many scient…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Kinetix: Investigating the Training of General Agents through Open-Ended Physics-Based Control Tasks

Michael Matthews, Michael Beukman, Chris Lu +1

While large models trained with self-supervised learning on offline datasets have shown remarkable capabilities in text and image domains, achieving the same generalisation for age…

cs.AI2024

JaxLife: An Open-Ended Agentic Simulator

Chris Lu, Michael Beukman, Michael Matthews +1

Human intelligence emerged through the process of natural selection and evolution on Earth. We investigate what it would take to re-create this process in silico. While past work h…

cs.AI2024★ 114 cited

The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery

Chris Lu, Cong Lu, Robert Tjarko Lange +3

One of the grand challenges of artificial general intelligence is developing agents capable of conducting scientific research and discovering new knowledge. While frontier models h…

cs.AI2024

Artificial Generational Intelligence: Cultural Accumulation in Reinforcement Learning

Jonathan Cook, Chris Lu, Edward Hughes +2

Cultural accumulation drives the open-ended and diverse progress in capabilities spanning human history. It builds an expanding body of knowledge and skills by combining individual…

cs.GT2024

The Danger Of Arrogance: Welfare Equilibra As A Solution To Stackelberg Self-Play In Non-Coincidental Games

Jake Levi, Chris Lu, Timon Willi +2

The increasing prevalence of multi-agent learning systems in society necessitates understanding how to learn effective and safe policies in general-sum multi-agent environments aga…

cs.LG2024

Analysing the Sample Complexity of Opponent Shaping

Kitty Fung, Qizhen Zhang, Chris Lu +3

Learning in general-sum games often yields collectively sub-optimal results. Addressing this, opponent shaping (OS) methods actively guide the learning processes of other agents, e…

cs.LG2024

Recurrent Reinforcement Learning with Memoroids

Steven Morad, Chris Lu, Ryan Kortvelesy +3

Memory models such as Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Transformers address Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) by mapping trajectories to latent Markov sta…

stat.ML2024

Learning mirror maps in policy mirror descent

Carlo Alfano, Sebastian Towers, Silvia Sapora +2

Policy Mirror Descent (PMD) is a popular framework in reinforcement learning, serving as a unifying perspective that encompasses numerous algorithms. These algorithms are derived t…

cs.LG2023

Leading the Pack: N-player Opponent Shaping

Alexandra Souly, Timon Willi, Akbir Khan +4

Reinforcement learning solutions have great success in the 2-player general sum setting. In this setting, the paradigm of Opponent Shaping (OS), in which agents account for the lea…

cs.AI2023

Scaling Opponent Shaping to High Dimensional Games

Akbir Khan, Timon Willi, Newton Kwan +5

In multi-agent settings with mixed incentives, methods developed for zero-sum games have been shown to lead to detrimental outcomes. To address this issue, opponent shaping (OS) me…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Proximal Learning With Opponent-Learning Awareness

Stephen Zhao, Chris Lu, Roger Baker Grosse +1

Learning With Opponent-Learning Awareness (LOLA) (Foerster et al. [2018a]) is a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm that typically learns reciprocity-based cooperation in…

cs.AI2021★ 3 cited

Centralized Model and Exploration Policy for Multi-Agent RL

Qizhen Zhang, Chris Lu, Animesh Garg +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) in partially observable, fully cooperative multi-agent settings (Dec-POMDPs) can in principle be used to address many real-world challenges such as cont…

cs.LG2019★ 63 cited

Learning to Control Self-Assembling Morphologies: A Study of Generalization via Modularity

Deepak Pathak, Chris Lu, Trevor Darrell +2

Contemporary sensorimotor learning approaches typically start with an existing complex agent (e.g., a robotic arm), which they learn to control. In contrast, this paper investigate…