arXiv:2608.13951cs.AI2026-08被引 3

让智能体的代码与运行框架共同进化,实现自我提升。

HELIX: Model-Harness Co-evolution for Recursive Self-Improvement

  • 将智能体系统拆解为可追踪的组件,显式控制运行框架演化
  • 一轮演化使任务覆盖率提升4.0%,互补行为多发现58.0%有效案例
  • 适合研究自进化系统、智能体架构设计的开发者

提升智能体能力通常聚焦于模型优化,但智能体通过运行时框架(harness)协调上下文、工具、控制流和终止逻辑,该框架既决定模型能做什么,也影响其学习轨迹。为此提出模型-框架协同进化机制:为固定模型构建框架,基于验证后的子轨迹更新模型,再根据模型能力变化重构框架。我们提出HELIX,一种可溯源的框架演化底层架构,将智能体系统分解为类型端口、可复用原子、配方、产品壳和运行策略。它使干预操作显式可审计,同时保留轨迹、测试结果和来源信息。框架演化兼具双重作用:提升固定模型执行效果,并生成匹配的成功、失败、近似成功及替代方案数据以供后续模型改进。在代码修复任务中,65个候选框架组合使任务覆盖率提升4.0%;完整组合暴露最多58.0%额外验证覆盖。200个子轨迹生成438条经验证的SFT、评论、过滤和偏好记录,经重复运行与SWE-bench评估验证。结果表明,框架、模型与数据构成反馈闭环:框架演化拓展当前能力并生成下一阶段模型的学习信号,模型更新又驱动新一轮框架演化。HELIX提供了可审计接口以研究此递归过程。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Scaling agent capability has largely focused on improving the model, yet an interactive agent acts through a runtime harness that mediates context, tools, control flow, and stopping. The harness shapes both what a model can accomplish and the trajectories from which it learns. This coupling motivates model-harness co-evolution for recursive self-improvement: build harnesses for a fixed model, update the model from verified sibling trajectories, and rebuild the harnesses as model capabilities change. Realizing this loop requires a controlled way to evolve harnesses while preserving intervention identity and effect. We present HELIX, a source-traceable substrate for harness evolution. HELIX decomposes agent systems into typed ports, reusable atoms, recipes, product shells, and runtime policies. It makes interventions explicit and auditable while retaining trajectories, test outcomes, and provenance. Harness evolution thus serves two linked roles: improving fixed-model execution and producing matched successes, regressions, near misses, and alternative solutions as data for subsequent model improvement. We evaluate HELIX in one evolution round on code repair. A 65-candidate portfolio discovers a fixed harness that improves task coverage by 4.0% over Pi, while the full portfolio exposes up to 58.0% more verified coverage through complementary sibling behavior. Selected candidates are assessed with repeated runs and the SWE-bench evaluator. A 200-slot sibling slice yields 438 verified SFT, critic, filter, and preference records. These results show how harness, model, and data form a feedback system: harness evolution expands current capability and creates learning signal for the next model; model updates motivate the next round of harness evolution. HELIX provides an auditable interface for studying this recursive process. Code is available at https://github.com/HKUDS/HELIX.

智能体自进化代码生成框架演化

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