A Self-Improving Coding Agent
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| author | Robeyns, Maxime Szummer, Martin Aitchison, Laurence |
| author_facet | Robeyns, Maxime Szummer, Martin Aitchison, Laurence |
| contents | Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred interest in deploying LLM agents to undertake tasks in the world. LLMs are often deployed in agent systems: code that orchestrates LLM calls and provides them with tools. We demonstrate that an agent system, equipped with basic coding tools, can autonomously edit itself, and thereby improve its performance on benchmark tasks. We find performance gains from 17% to 53% on a random subset of SWE Bench Verified, with additional performance gains on LiveCodeBench, as well as synthetically generated agent benchmarks. Our work represents an advancement in the automated and open-ended design of agentic systems, and demonstrates a data-efficient, non gradient-based learning mechanism driven by LLM reflection and code updates. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | A Self-Improving Coding Agent Robeyns, Maxime Szummer, Martin Aitchison, Laurence Artificial Intelligence Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred interest in deploying LLM agents to undertake tasks in the world. LLMs are often deployed in agent systems: code that orchestrates LLM calls and provides them with tools. We demonstrate that an agent system, equipped with basic coding tools, can autonomously edit itself, and thereby improve its performance on benchmark tasks. We find performance gains from 17% to 53% on a random subset of SWE Bench Verified, with additional performance gains on LiveCodeBench, as well as synthetically generated agent benchmarks. Our work represents an advancement in the automated and open-ended design of agentic systems, and demonstrates a data-efficient, non gradient-based learning mechanism driven by LLM reflection and code updates. |
| title | A Self-Improving Coding Agent |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15228 |