提出自演化AI代理的统一框架,解决静态模型无法适应动态环境的问题。
A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents: A New Paradigm Bridging Foundation Models and Lifelong Agentic Systems
- 构建四组件反馈循环框架:输入、代理系统、环境、优化器
- 系统梳理不同组件的自演化技术,覆盖生物医学等专业领域
- 聚焦评估与安全,为长期自主系统提供可靠基础
大语言模型的发展催生了能解决复杂现实任务的AI代理。然而,现有代理系统多依赖人工配置且部署后保持静态,难以适应动态环境。为此,研究者探索了基于交互数据与环境反馈自动增强代理系统的演化技术,奠定了自演化AI代理的基础,使静态基础模型与需持续适应的长期代理系统实现融合。本文综述现有自演化代理系统技术,提出统一概念框架,抽象出系统输入、代理系统、环境与优化器四大核心组件,作为理解与比较不同策略的基础。基于此框架,系统梳理针对代理系统各组件的演化方法,并考察生物医学、编程、金融等领域的专用演化策略,其优化目标与领域约束紧密耦合。此外,专门讨论评估、安全与伦理问题,确保自演化代理的有效性与可靠性。本综述旨在为研究者与实践者提供系统认知,推动更自主、适应性强、可持续的代理系统发展。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances in large language models have sparked growing interest in AI agents capable of solving complex, real-world tasks. However, most existing agent systems rely on manually crafted configurations that remain static after deployment, limiting their ability to adapt to dynamic and evolving environments. To this end, recent research has explored agent evolution techniques that aim to automatically enhance agent systems based on interaction data and environmental feedback. This emerging direction lays the foundation for self-evolving AI agents, which bridge the static capabilities of foundation models with the continuous adaptability required by lifelong agentic systems. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of existing techniques for self-evolving agentic systems. Specifically, we first introduce a unified conceptual framework that abstracts the feedback loop underlying the design of self-evolving agentic systems. The framework highlights four key components: System Inputs, Agent System, Environment, and Optimisers, serving as a foundation for understanding and comparing different strategies. Based on this framework, we systematically review a wide range of self-evolving techniques that target different components of the agent system. We also investigate domain-specific evolution strategies developed for specialised fields such as biomedicine, programming, and finance, where optimisation objectives are tightly coupled with domain constraints. In addition, we provide a dedicated discussion on the evaluation, safety, and ethical considerations for self-evolving agentic systems, which are critical to ensuring their effectiveness and reliability. This survey aims to provide researchers and practitioners with a systematic understanding of self-evolving AI agents, laying the foundation for the development of more adaptive, autonomous, and lifelong agentic systems.
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