通过工程化智能体环境,实现低成本自主科学发现。
EurekAgent: Agent Environment Engineering is All You Need For Autonomous Scientific Discovery

- 设计四维环境工程:权限、成果、预算与人机协同
- 在数学等任务上刷新纪录,圆排列成本低于11美元
- 适合追求自动化科研的团队和研究环境构建者
基于大模型的智能体在自动化科学发现中展现出巨大潜力。给定可优化指标与执行环境,它们能自主提出、验证并迭代科学解决方案,结果已超越人类设计方法。随着模型能力提升,自主科学发现的瓶颈正从设定智能体流程转向环境设计——即资源、约束与接口如何塑造智能体行为。本文提出EurekAgent,一种面向指标驱动的自主科学发现环境工程系统。该系统从四个维度进行环境工程:权限工程实现受限执行与隔离评估;成果工程支持文件系统与Git协作;预算工程实现探索过程中的预算感知;人机协同工程便于人工监督与干预。EurekAgent在多个数学、内核工程和机器学习任务上达到新SOTA,包括仅用不到11美元总API成本发现26个圆的最优排列。代码与结果已开源,呼吁将环境工程作为可靠自主科研智能体的核心研究方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
LLM-based agents have shown increasing potential in automating scientific discovery. Given an optimizable metric and an execution environment, they can propose, validate, and iterate scientific solutions, and have produced results that outperform human-designed approaches. As model capabilities continue to improve, we argue that the bottleneck for autonomous scientific discovery is shifting from prescribing agent workflows to designing agent environments: the resources, constraints, and interfaces that shape agent behavior. We frame this as environment engineering: building environments that amplify productive behaviors, such as open-ended exploration, systematic artifact management, and inter-agent collaboration, while suppressing harmful behaviors, such as reward hacking and high-friction human oversight. We present EurekAgent, an environment-engineered agent system for metric-driven autonomous scientific discovery. EurekAgent engineers the environment along four dimensions: permissions engineering for bounded agent execution and isolated evaluation; artifact engineering for filesystem and Git-based collaboration; budget engineering for budget-aware exploration; and human-in-the-loop engineering for easy human supervision and intervention. EurekAgent sets new state-of-the-art results on multiple mathematics, kernel engineering, and machine learning tasks, including new state-of-the-art 26-circle packing results discovered with less than $11 in total API cost. We open-source our code and results, and call for environment engineering as a core research direction for developing reliable autonomous research agents.
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