AI4AI-Bench Shows Recursive Self-Improvement Remains Very Hard

Researchers from Tsinghua and MosaicML released AI4AI-Bench, testing whether LLM agents can redesign AI training algorithms rather than just tune hyperparameters across 10 real research repos. Results show recursive self-improvement remains extremely difficult, with most agents failing to improve algorithms.

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