Evolutionary coding agents achieve most benchmark gains through a small subset of edit types and by cycling previously deleted code lines rather than developing new algorithmic structures.
Group-Evolving Agents: Open-Ended Self-Improvement via Experience Sharing
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AgentGA optimizes agent seeds with genetic algorithms and parent-archive inheritance to improve autonomous code generation, beating a baseline on 15 of 16 Kaggle competitions.
ContractSkill converts draft web agent skills into explicit executable contracts that enable deterministic verification, fault localization, and minimal local repair, improving stability on benchmarks like VisualWebArena.
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What Do Evolutionary Coding Agents Evolve?
Evolutionary coding agents achieve most benchmark gains through a small subset of edit types and by cycling previously deleted code lines rather than developing new algorithmic structures.
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AgentGA: Evolving Code Solutions in Agent-Seed Space
AgentGA optimizes agent seeds with genetic algorithms and parent-archive inheritance to improve autonomous code generation, beating a baseline on 15 of 16 Kaggle competitions.
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ContractSkill: Repairable Contract-Based Skills for Multimodal Web Agents
ContractSkill converts draft web agent skills into explicit executable contracts that enable deterministic verification, fault localization, and minimal local repair, improving stability on benchmarks like VisualWebArena.
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