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

30 citations · 55 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 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.AI2026

Learning to Continually Learn via Meta-learning Agentic Memory Designs

Yiming Xiong, Shengran Hu, Jeff Clune

The statelessness of foundation models bottlenecks agentic systems' ability to continually learn, a core capability for long-horizon reasoning and adaptation. To address this limit…

cs.AI2025★ 6 cited

Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents

Jenny Zhang, Shengran Hu, Cong Lu +2

Today's AI systems have human-designed, fixed architectures and cannot autonomously and continuously improve themselves. The advance of AI could itself be automated. If done safely…

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.LG2025★ 1 cited

Automated Capability Discovery via Foundation Model Self-Exploration

Cong Lu, Shengran Hu, Jeff Clune

Foundation models have become general-purpose assistants, exhibiting diverse capabilities across numerous domains through training on web-scale data. It remains challenging to prec…

cs.AI2024★ 8 cited

Automated Design of Agentic Systems

Shengran Hu, Cong Lu, Jeff Clune

Researchers are investing substantial effort in developing powerful general-purpose agents, wherein Foundation Models are used as modules within agentic systems (e.g. Chain-of-Thou…

cs.LG2024

Intelligent Go-Explore: Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Foundation Models

Cong Lu, Shengran Hu, Jeff Clune

Go-Explore is a powerful family of algorithms designed to solve hard-exploration problems built on the principle of archiving discovered states, and iteratively returning to and ex…

cs.AI2023★ 9 cited

Thought Cloning: Learning to Think while Acting by Imitating Human Thinking

Shengran Hu, Jeff Clune

Language is often considered a key aspect of human thinking, providing us with exceptional abilities to generalize, explore, plan, replan, and adapt to new situations. However, Rei…

cs.LG2021

Accelerating Multi-Objective Neural Architecture Search by Random-Weight Evaluation

Shengran Hu, Ran Cheng, Cheng He +3

For the goal of automated design of high-performance deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methodology is becoming increasingly important for…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

Multi-objective Neural Architecture Search with Almost No Training

Shengran Hu, Ran Cheng, Cheng He +1

In the recent past, neural architecture search (NAS) has attracted increasing attention from both academia and industries. Despite the steady stream of impressive empirical results…