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

114 citations · 159 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.AI2025

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…

cs.LG2025

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…

cs.LG2025

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…

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…