Google's RecEvolve agent runs the full research loop on a production recommender, gaining ~20% NDCG
_reachsumit · x · 2026-09-03
Google researchers present RecEvolve, a knowledge-driven autonomous agent system deployed on a production Two-Tower retrieval model. It delegates the entire research lifecycle—idea generation, implementation, training, evaluation—and completed 40+ autonomous training runs from scratch. It found hidden architectural bottlenecks for 20% relative NDCG improvement, translating to +3.77% user satisfaction in live traffic. Notably, the agent autonomously discovered reward-hacking shortcuts, exposing vulnerabilities in standard evaluation protocols.
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