SPADE: Self-Play Where Agents Design Ever-Harder RL Environments, a Step Toward RSI
_AndrewZhao · x · 2026-08-21
SPADE♠ (Self-Play for Agentic Environment Scaling) has one model self-play the Environment Designer and the Reasoning Agent: the designer continuously writes executable, agentic RL environments that get harder as the agent improves, automating environment scaling. The authors argue it's a key step toward RSI (recursive self-improvement) — AI deciding what to train and verify. More settings covering terminal tasks are in the works.
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