Research Papers Rankings
Agent papers from the last 90 days — tool use, computer use, coding agents, multi-agent systems. Ranked by three independent signals: GitHub star velocity on the official implementation, citation count, and Hugging Face attention. Papers strong on only one signal are left out. Rebuilt every day.
FreeToken rethinks local inference around two realities of edge AI: agent workloads keep changing shape, and every machine's resource balance differs. It co-designs model layout, expert residency, CPU-GPU execution and memory management instead of committing to a fixed offloading strategy.
LingBot-World 2.0 upgrades the game world model to an unbounded interaction horizon with consistent output quality via a causal pretraining paradigm, distills a real-time variant fast enough to drive 720p video at 60 fps, and greatly expands the action set (attacking, archery, spell-casting, shooting) plus text-driven interactive elements.
Raven argues that hand-crafted agent harnesses are too domain-coupled to scale with long-horizon, cross-domain workloads. It treats each model–harness pair as a composable unit of intelligence: a Host Agent decomposes goals and coordinates specialized sub-agents, a host archive and EverOS retain experience across tasks, and Skill Forge turns that experience into reusable procedures — with theory on expanding reliable task coverage under one resource budget.
Prime Agent is an open harness for long-horizon coding agents built on the Recursive Language Model idea: a persistent IPython session does test-time computation, while histories, memories, skills and subagent specs carry over between runs.
Iteratively editing an agent's harness (prompts, control flow, tooling, memory) can look like self-improvement while quietly overfitting the training tasks. RRSI regularizes both ends of the loop: the proposer works under a temporally annealed budget and is steered toward unexplored trajectories, while the selector uses a critic to screen benchmark-specific proposals and a pruner to drop edits that are too small, too expensive, or no longer useful. The authors report gains of up to 14.1 points on the evolved split and up to 4.7 points on five held-out benchmarks, with a harness that uses 30% fewer policy tokens.
LLM-as-a-Verifier turns a language model into a verifier by computing expectations over its scoring-token logits instead of prompting for discrete judgments, yielding continuous feedback with no extra training. The authors report state-of-the-art results on benchmarks including Terminal-Bench V2 and SWE-Bench Verified, and ship a Claude Code extension that watches agents and supplies dense rewards for RL.
This survey decomposes a self-improving agent into a foundation model and an operational scaffold of prompts, memory, tools and control logic, then defines improvement as a self-induced update operator that converts experience into accumulated capability with minimal human input. It organizes the growing literature by update target and driving signal, from prompt and memory edits to weight-level self-modification.
Apodex 1.1 targets what the authors call working capability: it scales up the diversity and verifiability of executable file, search and code environments, while training agents to decompose long-horizon tasks, delegate parallel work and integrate asynchronous results.
ABot-World-0 is an action-conditioned video world model trained on multi-source data from AAA games, simulation engines and internet videos, controlled through raw keyboard input with reference-character memory for consistent third-person rollouts. The authors report streaming 720p at up to 16 FPS on one RTX 5090 with 1.2s action-to-first-frame latency, targeting real-time long-horizon closed-loop interaction.
Dream-RSI is a framework for letting coding agents improve their own exploration strategy instead of keeping a fixed one. It builds a replay simulator from the agent's past discovery trees, lets the exploration policy practice inside that simulator for cheap off-policy feedback, then redeploys the refined strategy online so new discoveries feed the next round. The authors report competitive or better discovery quality on algorithm engineering, math optimization, and GPU kernel tasks, with substantially lower discovery cost in several settings.
This harness maintains an explicit task state outside the agent's execution context and updates it only with facts independently verified from the environment, using a Manage-Execute-Audit loop so mistaken self-assessments do not snowball across many steps.
StateM bets on harness scaling rather than model weights: it organizes agent execution around durable states, phase-local context, checked transitions and versioned procedural practices that agents and users can inspect together, lifting Terminal-Bench 2.1 results well above the reference harness in the authors' experiments.
Ouroboros is a self-developing coding-agent harness whose tools, prompts, context assembly and even core implementation improve through reviewed commits that become its later runtime, with two evolution modes: recursive free evolution and experience-driven core evolution. The authors also report a 161-day live deployment across seven human communication surfaces, arguing safety guardrails must stay authoritative while the agent rewrites its own code.
EvoOntology tackles the agent-data gap: agents can see column names and file paths through generic tools, but not what the data actually means. It wraps an ontology (schema, content, and tool layers) as an MCP server the agent can query at runtime, uses a builder agent to construct it autonomously, and keeps refining it with attribution-guided edits that are only accepted after a paired evaluation against the backbone. The authors report consistent gains over strong baselines and hand-built semantic layers across three data-agent benchmarks and four LLM backbones.
WeMM-Embedding is a family of universal multimodal embedding models (2B, 4B and 9B) covering text, images, video, visual documents and arbitrarily interleaved inputs, with flexible output dimensions, trained by large-scale alignment followed by refinement with curated relevance supervision.
Agent papers from the last 90 days — tool use, computer use, coding agents, multi-agent systems. Ranked by three independent signals: GitHub star velocity on the official implementation, citation count, and Hugging Face attention. Papers strong on only one signal are left out. Rebuilt every day.
A dash means the signal was unavailable, not zero.