AI Research Agents for Machine Learning: Search, Exploration, and Generalization in MLE-bench

NeurIPSSpotlight2025

Authors
Edan Toledo, Karen Hambardzumyan, Martin Josifoski, RISHI HAZRA, Nicolas Baldwin, Alexis Audran-Reiss, Michael Kuchnik, Despoina Magka, Minqi Jiang, Alisia Maria Lupidi, Andrei Lupu, Roberta Raileanu, Tatiana Shavrina, Kelvin Niu, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Michael Shvartsman, Shagun Sodhani, Alexander H Miller, Abhishek Charnalia, Derek Dunfield, Carole-Jean Wu, Pontus Stenetorp, Nicola Cancedda, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Yoram Bachrach
Venue
NeurIPS 2025
Track
Spotlight

TL;DR

AI research agents are demonstrating great potential to accelerate scientific progress by automating the design, implementation, and training of machine learning models…

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Topics

generalization exploration agent

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