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AI Finds A Way
Aaron Dharna, Cong Lu, Ryan Sullivan +3
Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms frequently learn creative and unexpected solutions, surprising even expert researchers who develop and study them. They often astonish pract…
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…
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…
SIMA 2: A Generalist Embodied Agent for Virtual Worlds
SIMA team, Adrian Bolton, Alexander Lerchner +63
We introduce SIMA 2, a generalist embodied agent that understands and acts in a wide variety of 3D virtual worlds. Built upon a Gemini foundation model, SIMA 2 represents a signifi…
Foundation Model Self-Play: Open-Ended Strategy Innovation via Foundation Models
Aaron Dharna, Cong Lu, Jeff Clune
Multi-agent interactions have long fueled innovation, from natural predator-prey dynamics to the space race. Self-play (SP) algorithms try to harness these dynamics by pitting agen…
How Weight Resampling and Optimizers Shape the Dynamics of Continual Learning and Forgetting in Neural Networks
Lapo Frati, Neil Traft, Jeff Clune +1
Recent work in continual learning has highlighted the beneficial effect of resampling weights in the last layer of a neural network (``zapping"). Although empirical results demonst…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
First-Explore, then Exploit: Meta-Learning to Solve Hard Exploration-Exploitation Trade-Offs
Ben Norman, Jeff Clune
Standard reinforcement learning (RL) agents never intelligently explore like a human (i.e. taking into account complex domain priors and adapting quickly based on previous explorat…