arXiv:2605.13821cs.AIcs.LG2026-05被引 8

让程序进化过程可自我修正,提升长期搜索效率。

Harnessing Agentic Evolution

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  • 用元编辑框架动态调整进化规则,而非直接生成新方案。
  • 在多个基准上比最强基线提升26%,优化任务表现领先。
  • 适合需要长期迭代的自动化编程与科学发现场景。

智能体演化通过迭代生成、评估和反馈引导,已成为改进程序、工作流和科学解决方案的强大范式。然而现有方法要么是固定设计的模块化流程(僵硬但可组合),要么是灵活整合反馈的通用智能体(易在长周期中漂移)。两者虽积累了丰富的演化证据(候选方案、反馈、轨迹、失败记录),却缺乏稳定接口来组织这些信息并修正驱动未来演化的机制。为此,本文将智能体演化建模为交互环境,把累积的演化上下文作为过程级状态。提出AEvo框架,其中元智能体观察该状态,不直接生成下一候选,而是编辑控制未来演化的流程或智能体上下文。这一统一接口使AEvo能同时指导基于流程和基于智能体的演化,让积累的证据可被有效利用于长周期搜索。在智能体与推理基准上的实证评估显示,AEvo优于五种演化基线,在相同迭代预算下,三个开放优化任务中也超越四种基线,达到当前最优性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Agentic evolution has emerged as a powerful paradigm for improving programs, workflows, and scientific solutions by iteratively generating candidates, evaluating them, and using feedback to guide future search. However, existing methods are typically instantiated either as fixed hand-designed procedures that are modular but rigid, or as general-purpose agents that flexibly integrate feedback but can drift in long-horizon evolution. Both forms accumulate rich evidence over time, including candidates, feedback, traces, and failures, yet lack a stable interface for organizing this evidence and revising the mechanism that drives future evolution. We address this limitation by formulating agentic evolution as an interactive environment, where the accumulated evolution context serves as a process-level state. We introduce AEvo, a harnessed meta-editing framework in which a meta-agent observes this state and acts not by directly proposing the next candidate, but by editing the procedure or agent context that controls future evolution. This unified interface enables AEvo to steer both procedure-based and agent-based evolution, making accumulated evidence actionable for long-horizon search. Empirical evaluations on agentic and reasoning benchmarks show that AEvo outperforms five evolution baselines, achieving a 26 relative improvement over the strongest baseline. Across three open-ended optimization tasks, AEvo further outperforms four evolution baselines and achieves state-of-the-art performance under the same iteration budget.

智能体演化元编辑自动化搜索长期优化

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