129Agents / MetacognitionarXiv:2603.19461
- Existing self-improving AI systems rely on fixed, hand-crafted meta-level mechanisms, which limits their ability to improve continuously and leads to an infinite regress problem.
- Existing self-improving frameworks often lack generalizability because their effectiveness is tied to domain-specific alignment between task-solving and self-modification skills.
- The challenge is to achieve truly open-ended, self-accelerating progress in which not only task-solving ability but also the improvement mechanism itself can be strengthened.
- It introduces Hyperagents, a self-referential agent that integrates a task-solving agent and a modifier-generating meta-agent into a single editable program.
- It extends the Darwin Gödel Machine, or DGM, framework into DGM-Hyperagents, or DGM-H, enabling metacognitive self-modification by allowing the meta-agent component inside the hyperagent to modify both the task agent and itself.
- It uses an open-ended population-based search process that stores improved hyperagents as stepping stones for future iterative refinement, across domains such as coding, paper review, and robotics.