AI Research Preference Models: Using Compute to Decide What Experiments to Run
anirudhg9119 · x · 2026-09-01
Paper "AI Research Preference Models" addresses the selection problem for AI research agents with limited compute budgets.
Key Details:
- Problem: Agents can propose more candidates than they can afford to evaluate. Progress depends on allocation strategy.
- Method: Introduces RPMs to predict promising candidates without running all.
- Inference-only: Reasons over plans, code, and history.
- Agentic: Runs small-scale pilot experiments.
- Results: Integrated into AIRA-dojo and evaluated on AIRS-Bench, scores increased from 0.684 to 0.711 and 0.729 respectively.
- Insight: In expensive-search domains, intelligence involves knowing what not to run. Selection quality scales with compute.
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