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CORAL: Towards Autonomous Multi-Agent Evolution for Open-Ended Discovery

- 用持续交互的多智能体与共享记忆替代固定规则探索
- 10项任务达成新最优,提升率比基线高3-10倍,评估次数更少
- 适合研究自主智能体、开放域发现与算法优化的开发者
基于大语言模型的演化是实现开放域发现的有前景方法,但现有方法仍依赖固定启发式和硬编码探索规则,限制了智能体的自主性。本文提出CORAL,首个面向开放域问题的自主多智能体演化框架。CORAL通过持久共享记忆、异步多智能体执行和心跳干预机制,使智能体能够持续探索、反思与协作。同时提供隔离工作区、评估器分离、资源管理及会话健康监控等实用保障。在数学、算法与系统优化等多样任务上评估,CORAL在10项任务中达到新基准,相比固定演化基线,提升率提高3-10倍,且所需评估次数显著减少。在Anthropic的内核工程任务中,四个协同进化的智能体将最佳得分从1363周期提升至1103周期。机制分析表明,性能提升源于知识复用与多智能体探索通信。结果表明,更高自主性与多智能体演化能显著增强开放域发现能力。代码已开源:https://github.com/Human-Agent-Society/CORAL。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language model (LLM)-based evolution is a promising approach for open-ended discovery, where progress requires sustained search and knowledge accumulation. Existing methods still rely heavily on fixed heuristics and hard-coded exploration rules, which limit the autonomy of LLM agents. We present CORAL, the first framework for autonomous multi-agent evolution on open-ended problems. CORAL replaces rigid control with long-running agents that explore, reflect, and collaborate through shared persistent memory, asynchronous multi-agent execution, and heartbeat-based interventions. It also provides practical safeguards, including isolated workspaces, evaluator separation, resource management, and agent session and health management. Evaluated on diverse mathematical, algorithmic, and systems optimization tasks, CORAL sets new state-of-the-art results on 10 tasks, achieving 3-10 times higher improvement rates with far fewer evaluations than fixed evolutionary search baselines across tasks. On Anthropic's kernel engineering task, four co-evolving agents improve the best known score from 1363 to 1103 cycles. Mechanistic analyses further show how these gains arise from knowledge reuse and multi-agent exploration and communication. Together, these results suggest that greater agent autonomy and multi-agent evolution can substantially improve open-ended discovery. Code is available at https://github.com/Human-Agent-Society/CORAL.
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