Stanford CS329A publishes 9-lecture course on self-improving AI agents
le_james94 · x · 2026-09-16
- Stanford Online published the Autumn 2025 course CS329A "Self-Improving AI Agents" on YouTube, taught by Azalia Mirhoseini and Aakanksha Chowdhery (former tech lead of Google's 540B PaLM).
- Topics: self-improvement techniques (Constitutional AI, verifiers, test-time compute scaling, search + LLMs, RL train-time scaling), tool/code/memory augmentation, multi-step reasoning and planning, and agentic evaluation frameworks.
- Applications include coding agents, STEM research assistants, and autonomous robotics; the full paper reading list is public on the course site.
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