RSIAgent: parameter-free self-improvement pushes open-source models past GPT-6 Astra on agent benchmarks

机器之心 · wechat · 2026-09-15

Causal-intelligence startup AetherAI released RSIAgent, proposing a new scaling axis: scale experience, not model parameters. The agent autonomously explores new software environments, distills stable action-condition-outcome causal rules into an evolving memory, and recursively self-improves.

Framework

A three-agent loop: a curriculum agent picks what to explore, actor agents execute, verifier agents check against real environment feedback.
Two-phase strategy: Broad exploration (parallel, pretraining-like coverage) then Deep exploration (sequential, adversarial attack on hard/hidden corner cases); memory is frozen and reused downstream.

Results

With GLM-5.3 and Kimi-K3, OSWorld 2.0 jumps from 71.97% to 78.98%, beating GPT-6 Astra (72.60%) and Claude Opus 5; 84.82% on Agents' Last Exam (Near-term).
Transfers to autonomous game development on GameCraft-Bench; some tasks starting at 0–40% success reach 100% after more RSI rounds.
Ablations confirm both phases are necessary.

Paper, code and project page are public. The team frames this as a step toward general causal intelligence.

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