SelfSearch: Reward-Free Search for Self-Improving Agents

arXiv:2609.37968 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/apache/maka

Terminology

• Benchmark — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative AI — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cross-Model Transfer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metacognition — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptive Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic System — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• Bilevel Autoresearch: Meta-Autoresearching Itself
• Group-Evolving Agents: Open-Ended Self-Improvement via Experience Sharing

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