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  1. A Society of Researchers: Designing Institutions for Populations of Autonomous Research Agents

    Oct 7, 2026Ali Asaria, Deep Gandhi, Tony SalomoneAutonomous Research AgentsMulti-Agent Systems

    Transformer Lab Canada

  2. When Algorithmic Exploration Becomes Cheap: A Case Study of Agentic Research in EDA

    Oct 7, 2026Keren Zhu, Yu Deng, Xiaoyu Hao +6AI-Assisted Scientific ResearchAutonomous Research Agents

    College of Integrated Circuits and Micro-Nano Electronics Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  3. Stateless Language Agents: Scaling Long-Horizon Automated Research

    Oct 6, 2026Qizheng Zhang, Changxiu Ji, Isaac Sun +15Software Engineering AgentsLLM Agent Orchestration

    Stanford University

  4. Fork-and-Flush: Escaping Idea Basins in Autoresearch Agents

    Oct 5, 2026Ziyang Cai, Christos Ziakas, Vasilis Kontonis +5Local SearchLong-Horizon Agent Tasks

    Microsoft Research

  5. YouRA: A Persistent-State Architecture for Evidence-Traceable Autonomous Research Agents

    Oct 1, 2026Yoonkyu Woo, Woojin Lee, Jin-Xia HuangAI Agent ReliabilityAI Agents for Scientific Discovery

    Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Republic of Korea · Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

  6. ConflictGuide: AutoResearch Improves When Competing Behaviors Are Made Visible

    Sep 30, 2026Binqian Xu, Qiran Zou, Xiangbo Shu +1Large Language Model-Guided OptimizationSelf-Improving Agents

    National University of Singapore · Nanjing University of Science and Technology

  7. RankEvolve: A Reliable Multi-Agent Auto-Research Harness for Evolving Ranking Models

    Sep 30, 2026Zheng Chen, Linfeng Liu, Hong Li +1Learning to RankLLM Agent Orchestration

    Meta

  8. Experimental Experience Modeling for Autonomous Research

    Sep 30, 2026Wenda Wei, Yingchen Zhang, Ruqing Zhang +3AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryAutonomous Experimentation

    State Key Laboratory of AI Safety · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  9. Autoresearch in Mixed-Integer Linear and Nonlinear Programming

    Sep 30, 2026Yuwei Gu, Yaoxin Wu, Tong Guo +2Automated Algorithm DiscoveryMixed-Integer Linear Programming

    Chengdu University of Information Technology · Eindhoven University of Technology · Nanyang University of Technology +2

  10. AIM: Agentic Idea Management for Automated Research

    Sep 29, 2026Hyeong Kyu Choi, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Jiefeng Chen +7Large Language Model-Guided OptimizationLarge Language Model-Guided Scientific Discovery

    Google Cloud AI Research · University of Wisconsin-Madison

  11. RSI-Master: Structuring Experiments to Guide Autonomous Model Improvement

    Sep 28, 2026Yaxin Du, Xiyuan Yang, Zhifan Zhou +10Language Model Post-TrainingSelf-Improving Agents

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Waterloo

  12. From Search to Research: Exploring Search Scaling in Autonomous Quantitative Factor Mining

    Sep 28, 2026Kangcheng Deng, Hui Cai, Jiacheng Lu +6Inference-Time ScalingAutonomous Research Agents

    StepFun · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · University of California, Los Angeles +1

  13. Collaborative Principle Evolution via Evidence Transfer for Scientific Discovery

    Sep 28, 2026Yingming Pu, Hongyu Chen, Tao LinMulti-Agent CollaborationMulti-Agent Systems

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

  14. Research-Native by Construction: Minimal Nodes, Re-verifiable Workflows, and Compounding Memory for Long-Horizon Scientific Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Di Wang, Yu Liu, Bing Cui +5Runtime Enforcement for AI AgentsScientific Reproducibility

    IdeaHorizon Team

  15. PEAR: Progressive Evidence-Based AutoResearch for Industrial Search Systems

    Sep 28, 2026Yifan Wang, Shipeng Zhu, Fei Xiong +6Information RetrievalSequential Hypothesis Testing

    Global E-Commerce Agentic Search Team

  16. EverMine: Dissecting the Self-Evolution of Research Capabilities in Long-Horizon Alpha Research

    Sep 27, 2026Siyuan Li, Jiangfeng Zhang, Rui Yao +3Quantitative FinanceLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Singapore Management University

  17. ASCEND: Personal AI Agents for Autonomous Scientific Computing Across HPC Clusters and GPU Workstations

    Sep 26, 2026J. Paul Liu, Uthpala Herath, Andrew PetersenAI for ScienceHigh-Performance Computing

    AI Hub for Science, College of Sciences, NC State University, Raleigh, NC · Research Computing and Support Services, Office of Information Technology, Duke University, Durham, NC · Office of Information Technology, NC State University, Raleigh, NC

  18. Advancing Model Research in AgentX: Long-Horizon Autonomy for Industrial Recommender Systems

    Sep 24, 2026Shuang Yang, Zijie Zhuang, Changxin Lao +20AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

  19. LabFactory: Building and Evaluating Executable AI Labs

    Sep 23, 2026Jinge Wu, Hongjian Zhou, Mingde Zeng +6AI-Assisted Scientific ResearchAI Agent Evaluation

    University of Oxford

  20. Reward Hacking Challenges Oversight of Autonomous Research Agents

    Sep 23, 2026Yue Huang, Zhangchen Xu, Yuchen Ma +12Reward HackingAI Agent Auditing

    Bake AI · University of Notre Dame · University of Washington +6

  21. Recursive self-improvement of AI research agents

    Sep 22, 2026Dhruv Srikanth, Bingchen Zhao, Dixing Xu +2LLM Agent Self-ImprovementRecursive Self-Improvement

    Weco AI

  22. SoL-Pi: Recursively Scaling Auto-Research Loops for Efficient Agent Harness

    Sep 17, 2026Haozhe Liu, Tian Ye, Sensen Gao +11Agent Harness OptimizationLLM Agent Workflow Optimization

    NVIDIA · NTU · MIT

  23. VideoResearcher: Self-Improving Tool Design for Long-Video Understanding

    Sep 17, 2026Dingqiang Ye, Dongdi Zhao, Kaishen Wang +11Tool-Using Vision-Language AgentsLong-Video Understanding

    Johns Hopkins University

  24. ScientistTwo: Pioneering the Human Knowledge Frontier with Autonomous AI

    Sep 17, 2026Jaehyun Nam, Jinsung Yoon, Yanzhou Pan +4Scientific Hypothesis GenerationMulti-Agent Systems

    Google Cloud AI Research · University of Waterloo

  25. Evidence-Grounded Agentic Formulation Development in an Autonomous Laboratory

    Sep 16, 2026Michael M. Craig, Riley J. Hickman, Yingshan Ma +3Autonomous ExperimentationAutonomous Research Agents

    Intrepid Labs, Toronto, Canada

  26. Agora: Git as Shared Memory for Collective AutoResearch

    Sep 16, 2026Yifan Zhang, Yunheng Zou, Shaokun Zhang +5AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryMulti-Agent Collaboration

    NVIDIA

  27. PrimeScientist: Strategic Allocation of Research Effort in Autonomous Research

    Sep 15, 2026Xinle Yu, Fan Bai, Kaiser Sun +5AI for ScienceAutonomous Research Agents

    UC San Diego · Johns Hopkins University

  28. ScienceBuddy: Recursive-in-Recursive Self-Improvement for Interactive Scientific Agents

    Sep 15, 2026Shuhan Xue, Jianyuan Zhong, Ziyuan Nan +10Continual Learning for LLM AgentsAI-Assisted Scientific Research

  29. Stellar Colosseum: A Many-Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Research in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

    Sep 14, 2026Honghao Lin, David P. Woodruff, Yuan Deng +3Inference-Time SearchAutomated Theorem Proving

    1Google Research. · 2Carnegie Mellon University.

  30. Atria Dawn: The Dawn of Agentic Superintelligence

    Sep 14, 2026Honglin Guo, Tao Gui, Kun Cai +140AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryAI Agent Benchmarks