arXiv:2604.23472cs.AI2026-04被引 5

让任务智能体和优化智能体相互进化,自动提升性能。

Escher-Loop: Mutual Evolution by Closed-Loop Self-Referential Optimization

  • 构建闭环系统,任务与优化智能体互为演化驱动力。
  • 在数学优化任务中超越静态基线,达到最高峰值性能。
  • 适合研究自进化系统与人工智能自主优化的学者。

当前自主智能体虽表现优异,但主要依赖人工编写的工作流和手工设计启发式规则,限制了其在开放环境中的持续改进能力。为此,我们提出 Escher-Loop,一个完全闭环的框架,实现两类种群的相互进化:解决具体问题的任务智能体,以及递归优化任务智能体与自身结构的优化器智能体。为维持这一自指演化过程,我们设计了一种动态评估机制,将新生成任务智能体的实测得分作为相对胜负信号,用于更新优化器得分,从而无需额外开销即可利用任务智能体的演化过程驱动优化器的评估与优化。在数学优化问题上的实证表明,Escher-Loop 能有效突破静态基线的性能瓶颈,在匹配计算资源下所有评测任务均取得最高绝对峰值性能。值得注意的是,优化器智能体能动态调整策略以适应高性能任务智能体的变化需求,解释了系统持续进步及后期表现卓越的原因。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

While recent autonomous agents demonstrate impressive capabilities, they predominantly rely on manually scripted workflows and handcrafted heuristics, inherently limiting their potential for open-ended improvement. To address this, we propose Escher-Loop, a fully closed-loop framework that operationalizes the mutual evolution of two distinct populations: Task Agents that solve concrete problems, and Optimizer Agents that recursively refine both the task agents and themselves. To sustain this self-referential evolution, we propose a dynamic benchmarking mechanism that seamlessly reuses the empirical scores of newly generated task agents as relative win-loss signals to update optimizers' scores. This mechanism leverages the evolution of task agents as an inherent signal to drive the evaluation and refinement of optimizers without additional overhead. Empirical evaluations on mathematical optimization problems demonstrate that Escher-Loop effectively pushes past the performance ceilings of static baselines, achieving the highest absolute peak performance across all evaluated tasks under matched compute. Remarkably, we observe that the optimizer agents dynamically adapt their strategies to match the shifting demands of high-performing task agents, which explains the system's continuous improvement and superior late-stage performance.

自进化闭环优化智能体演化

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