New paper 'Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting': making AutoResearch agents forget to escape idea basins
rbhar90 · x · 2026-10-16
Autoresearch coding agents can run for days on a problem but often stall early, fixated on old ideas. The paper 'Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting' introduces a simple context-management trick: force agents to forget everything except the best solution so far, letting them escape their idea basins and produce more novel solutions. Related to recent 'Fork and Flush' and 'Idea-basins' work.
Related event: Berkeley Paper: Teaching AI Research Agents to Forget Boosts Discovery(3 posts)→
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