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This arXiv preprint proposes a method in which a specialist foundation model and an LLM agent improve each other through alternating supervised training, on-policy reinforcement self-training, and evolutionary search over their interaction. The reported gains are on recommendation, protein function, and crystal stability tasks, but the abstract offers only high-level results, so the evidence needs to be checked against baselines and the full paper. Readers interested in self-improvement and domain-specialist AI should watch whether the approach holds up outside the three evaluated domains.
Heterogeneous Agentic Coevolution
arXiv:2610.16078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in self-improving LLM agents have demonstrated the potential of AI systems that drive their own intelligence. However, many domain-specific applications rely on specialized foundation models that possess strong domain expertise but remain dependent on human-designed improvements. Extending recursive self-improvement to these models presents a key challenge: as a specialist improves, the strategies used to advance it must also adapt. To address this challenge, we propose Heterogeneous Agentic CoEvolution (HACE), a framework that jointly evolves specialized foundation models and LLM agents through reciprocal learning. HACE improves the specialist through supervised learning while training the agent with on-policy reinforced self-training, guided by verified performance gains on the current specialist. The agent's exploration, in turn, informs subsequent specialist training, enabling both models to adapt to each other's progress. To sustain this reciprocal learning, HACE further employs evolutionary search to optimize their interaction harness, adapting how the models exchange information and select training experiences as their capabilities evolve. We evaluate HACE across three challenging domains: recommendation systems, protein function prediction in biology, and crystal stability prediction in material discovery. We show that HACE outperforms the evaluated self-improving methods on the primary task metrics across all three domains. These results shed light on heterogeneous coevolution as a universal approach to improving specialized foundation models through reciprocal interaction with a learning agent.
Abstract:Recent advances in self-improving LLM agents have demonstrated the potential of AI systems that drive their own intelligence. However, many domain-specific applications rely on specialized foundation models that possess strong domain expertise but remain dependent on human-designed improvements. Extending recursive self-improvement to these models presents a key challenge: as a specialist improves, the strategies used to advance it must also adapt. To address this challenge, we propose Heterogeneous Agentic CoEvolution (HACE), a framework that jointly evolves specialized foundation models and LLM agents through reciprocal learning. HACE improves the specialist through supervised learning while training the agent with on-policy reinforced self-training, guided by verified performance gains on the current specialist. The agent's exploration, in turn, informs subsequent specialist training, enabling both models to adapt to each other's progress. To sustain this reciprocal learning, HACE further employs evolutionary search to optimize their interaction harness, adapting how the models exchange information and select training experiences as their capabilities evolve. We evaluate HACE across three challenging domains: recommendation systems, protein function prediction in biology, and crystal stability prediction in material discovery. We show that HACE outperforms the evaluated self-improving methods on the primary task metrics across all three domains. These results shed light on heterogeneous coevolution as a universal approach to improving specialized foundation models through reciprocal interaction with a learning agent.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2610.16078 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2610.16078v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
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