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  1. A-JIT: Agentic Just-In-Time Software Construction

    Sep 9, 2026Mark Marron, Earl T. BarrSelf-EvolutionLifecycle

  2. Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents

    Sep 8, 2026Yuxing Lu, Yicheng Chen, Shanchan Wu +1Hierarchical Graph MemoryLarge Language Model Agents

  3. Experience Funnel: A State-Policy Alternating Loop for Self-Evolving Agents

    Sep 8, 2026Wenbo Gao, Zhaomou Song, Zhiyuan Ji +7Self-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  4. Safe Harness Self-Evolution: A Theoretical Analysis of Feasibility and Limits

    Sep 8, 2026Qianshu Cai, Yonggang Zhang, Jun Nie +6Self-EvolutionAgent Harness

  5. Dalek: A Constructive Agent Machine

    Sep 3, 2026Wanpeng XieSelf-EvolutionAutomation and Machines

  6. ARISE-RL: Agentic Rubric-Grounded Iterative Self-Evolution with Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 1, 2026Fanrui Zhang, Ruixue Ding, Qiang Zhang +13Agentic Reinforcement LearningRubric-Based Reinforcement Learning

  7. HarnessEvolve: Learning from Reference Trajectories for Reliable Agent Self-Evolution

    Sep 1, 2026Wen Jiang, Mingmin Chu, Yimeng Tian +6Self-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  8. StudyBench: Can Self-Evolution Squeeze Textbooks for Olympiad Capability?

    Sep 1, 2026Yinghao Chen, Zixi Chen, Bingxiang He +7Self-EvolutionOlympiad-Level Problem

  9. DiagEvo: Diagnosis-Guided Self-Evolution via Hierarchical Error Memory

    Sep 1, 2026Xincheng Wei, Yifan Ding, Yoshua Li +5Self-EvolutionMathematical Reasoning Benchmarks

  10. Aspire: Can Models Self-Evolve from Vague Goals?

    Aug 31, 2026Yuhao Wu, Jingyuan Zhang, Jiajun Shi +18Self-EvolutionObjectives

  11. FIRE-VLA: Failure-Informed Self-Evolution for Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving

    Aug 13, 2026Hao DouDiffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsVision-Language-Action

  12. Beyond Handcrafted Security: Towards Self-Evolving Defense for LLM Agents

    Aug 13, 2026Jiajun Ruan, Peiyang Li, Yukun Chen +2Defense MechanismRuntime Enforcement

  13. Dual-Loop Self-Evolution via Verifiable Emotion Feedback for Multi-Turn Empathetic Dialogue

    Aug 11, 2026Yi Wei, Shuo Jiang, Huaixia Dou +5EmpathySelf-Evolution

  14. MEGA: Self-Evolving Agent Optimization Infrastructure via Wisdom Graph

    Aug 11, 2026Jung Hwan Lee, Kyu Ho Lee, Gwang Hoon YooSelf-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  15. Co-Evolution in Agentic Systems: Toward Self-Directed Evolution Beyond Human Design

    Aug 10, 2026Qing Zong, Jiayu Liu, Junhao Shen +9Co-EvolutionSelf-Evolution

  16. OpenLoopEvolve: A Verifiable Self-Evolution Framework for Loop Policies in Long-Horizon Complex Tasks

    Aug 10, 2026Siqi Wang, Xinlin Li, Zhenglin Li +1Self-Evolving AgentsLong-Horizon Agents

  17. Beyond the Capability Boundary: Zeroth-Order Optimization for Self-Evolving LLM Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Bingzhen Liu, Xiaomeng Fan, Yuwei Wu +4Self-EvolutionLarge Language Model Agents

  18. Tree-of-Experience: Hierarchical Experience Management for Self-Evolving Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Zihao Deng, Yining Zhu, Leiming Wang +6Self-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  19. When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents

    Aug 6, 2026Linfang Shang, Ming Xu, Yiding Sun +4Skill EvolutionSelf-Evolving Agents

  20. Argus: A General-Purpose Agentic Reasoning Runtime for Long-Horizon Tasks

    Aug 5, 2026Boxiu Li, Zimo Wen, Yijia Fan +24Agentic ReasoningLong-Horizon

  21. GDPevo: Evaluating Agent Self-Evolution on Real Business Tasks

    Aug 4, 2026Leijun Zhou, Zhihao Liu, Xiang Qu +9Self-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  22. Learning What to Remember and What to Internalize in LLM Self-Evolution via Adaptive Memory-Parameter Coordination

    Aug 2, 2026Tianyun Ji, Zhenya Huang, Jiayu Liu +3Self-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  23. DarwinX: Evolving Agent Harnesses Through Natural Selection

    Jul 31, 2026Yifan Zhang, Yutong Dai, Juntao Tan +9Self-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  24. Code Is the Body: Agent-Owned Software Bodies for Recursive Evolution and Descent

    Jul 30, 2026Roy Zhao, Zhenyu ZhaoSelf-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  25. Rethinking Self-Evolution: A Constrained Exploration-Exploitation Process for Mitigating Skill Overfitting

    Jul 29, 2026Hongqiang Lin, Chao Liu, Xiaofan Bai +4Skill EvolutionAgent Skill Libraries

  26. Specula: Scaling formal specifications for autonomous model checking of system code

    Jul 28, 2026Qian Cheng, Saad Mohammad Rafid Pial, Ruize Tang +6Probabilistic Model CheckingSpecification

  27. Skill Self-Play: Pushing the Frontier of LLM Capability with Co-Evolving Skills

    Jul 24, 2026Siyuan Huang, Pengyu Cheng, Haotian Liu +10Skill EvolutionSelf-Evolution

  28. Teaching LLMs to Self-Evolve: Cultivating Core Meta-Skills with Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 24, 2026Shujin Wu, Cheng Qian, Xiusi Chen +1Self-EvolutionSkill Evolution

  29. Audio-Zero: Label-Free Self-Evolution for Fine-Grained Audio Reasoning

    Jul 22, 2026Siqian Tong, Xuan Li, Chaozhuo Li +5Audio ReasoningAudio Generation and Processing

  30. Verifiable Self-Evolution for Open-Ended Dialogue Skills via Future-Feedback Prediction

    Jul 21, 2026ChaoJin Zhao, Xuan JiangSkill EvolutionSelf-Evolution

  31. SEED: Self-Evolving On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 16, 2026Jinyang Wu, Shuo Yang, Zhengxi Lu +8Agentic Reinforcement LearningUnsupervised On-Policy Self-Distillation

  32. Critic Experience Bank: Self-Evolving Step-Level Confidence Estimation for LLM Agents

    Jul 14, 2026Yaopei Zeng, Congchao Wang, JianHang Chen +3Large Language Model AgentsConfidence Estimation

  33. The Path to Self-Evolving Clinical Systems: Scaling Medical Agents from Assistance to Autonomy

    Jul 13, 2026Chunzheng Zhu, Lei Tian, Bohan Tan +15Self-EvolutionRate Scaling

  34. QwenPaw-Data: Bridging Facts, Methodology, and Execution for Autonomous Enterprise Data Analytics

    Jul 13, 2026Tianjing Zeng, Yuntao Hong, Zhongjun Ding +17Data Science AgentsSelf-Evolution

  35. LOGOS: A Living Logic for AI Agent Teams That Evolve With Humans

    Jul 12, 2026Yuma Ichikawa, Yamato Arai, Kosaku Kimura +2Multi-Agent Artificial Intelligence SystemsHuman-In-The-Loop

  36. AutoPersonas: A Multi-Timescale Loop Engine for Open-Ended Persona Evolution

    Jul 9, 2026Mengchen LiPersonasSelf-Evolution

  37. DeepSearch-World: Self-Distillation for Deep Search Agents in a Verifiable Environment

    Jul 8, 2026Xinyu Geng, Xuanhua He, Sixiang Chen +7Search AgentsSelf-Improving Agents

  38. EvoAgentBench: Benchmarking Agent Self-Evolution via Ability Transfer

    Jul 6, 2026Xingze Gao, Chuanrui Hu, Hongda Chen +9Self-Evolving AgentsAgentic Benchmarks

  39. Harness-Aware Self-Evolving: Co-Evolving Model Weights, Harness, and Task Solutions

    Jul 4, 2026Haochen Luo, Yi Huang, Sichun Luo +5Agent HarnessSelf-Evolution

  40. Neuron-Aware Data Selection for Annotation-Free LLM Self-Distillation

    Jul 2, 2026Zhuowei Chen, Xiang Lorraine LiUnsupervised On-Policy Self-DistillationSelf-Evolution

  41. Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution

    Jun 26, 2026Cunxi Yu, Chenhui Deng, Nathaniel Pinckney +1Self-Evolving AgentsRepository-Level Code Understanding

  42. AgentX: Towards Agent-Driven Self-Iteration of Industrial Recommender Systems

    Jun 25, 2026Changxin Lao, Fei Pan, Guozhuang Ma +59Decentralized Multi-Agent SystemSelf-Evolution

  43. On the Necessity of a Liquid Substrate for Mesh Intelligence

    Jun 25, 2026Hongwei XuLow-Latency SystemsSelf-Evolution

  44. Autonomous Video Generation with Counterfactual Controllability for Self-Evolving World Models

    Jun 23, 2026Xin Wang, Wenxuan Liu, Tongtong Feng +1Controllable High-Quality Human Video GenerationCinematic Video Generation

  45. Self-Evolution for Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents via Divergence-Point Preference Learning

    Jun 22, 2026Jiaqiang TangSelf-EvolutionInference-Time

  46. When Rules Learn: A Self-Evolving Agent for Legal Case Retrieval

    Jun 15, 2026Mingxu Tao, Jiawei Hu, Xian Zhou +5Llm-Based Statutory Question AnsweringSelf-Evolution

  47. APEX: Adaptive Principle EXtraction A Three-Layer Self-Evolution Framework for Production AI Agents

    Jun 13, 2026Ya-Chuan Chen, Tien-Jen Lai, Hsiang-Wei HuSelf-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  48. Self-Explainability in Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Systems: Status and Research Directions

    Jun 8, 2026Tom Beyer, Svea Wisy, Sven TomfordeExplainable Artificial IntelligenceSystematic Review

  49. Experience Makes Skillful: Enabling Generalizable Medical Agent Reasoning via Self-Evolving Skill Memory

    Jun 8, 2026Haoran Sun, Wenjie Li, Yujie Zhang +8Agent MemoryReuse

  50. INFUSER: Influence-Guided Self-Evolution Improves Reasoning

    Jun 8, 2026Siyu Chen, Miao Lu, Beining Wu +7Self-EvolutionIterative Co-Training

  51. Bridging Expert Knowledge and Automated Feature Engineering via Self-Evolution

    Jun 7, 2026Varun Khurana, Vijval Ekbote, Vashu Chauhan +3Feature EngineeringFeature Extraction

  52. PACT: Self-Evolving Physical Safety Alignment for Diffusion Policies in Embodied Manipulation

    Jun 7, 2026Lingxuan Wu, Zijian Zhu, Lizhong Wang +5Diffusion PoliciesSafety Constraints

  53. Self-Evolving Scientific Agent Designs Physically Reasoned White-Box Fluid Control

    Jun 7, 2026Boai Sun, Wenjin Guo, Zongmin Yu +1Generalizable Robot ControlAgentic Control

  54. PACE: Anytime-Valid Acceptance Tests for Self-Evolving Agents

    Jun 6, 2026Zayx ShawnSelf-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  55. OpenSkill: Open-World Self-Evolution for LLM Agents

    Jun 4, 2026Zhiling Yan, Dingjie Song, Hanrong Zhang +8Self-EvolutionLarge Language Model Agents

  56. MLEvolve: A Self-Evolving Framework for Automated Machine Learning Algorithm Discovery

    Jun 4, 2026Shangheng Du, Xiangchao Yan, Jinxin Shi +11Self-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  57. Towards Healthy Evolution: Exploring the Role and Mechanisms of Human-Agent Interaction in Self-Evolving Systems

    Jun 4, 2026Dianxing Shi, Bowen Wang, Junqi He +2Self-Evolving AgentsSelf-Evolution

  58. VASO: Formally Verifiable Self-Evolving Skills for Physical AI Agents

    Jun 3, 2026Yunhao Yang, Neel P. Bhatt, Kevin Wang +3Skill EvolutionHuman-To-Robot Transfer

  59. SkillPyramid: A Hierarchical Skill Consolidation Framework for Self-Evolving Agents

    Jun 2, 2026Yuan Xiong, Ziqi Miao, Qian Chen +5Unsupervised Skill DiscoverySelf-Evolving Agents

  60. SAGE: A Quantitative Evaluation of Socialized Evolution in Agent Ecosystems

    Jun 2, 2026Linyue Pan, Yaoming Zhu, Lin Qiu +2Self-Evolving AgentsSelf-Improving Agents