Sep 1, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Can AI Build Itself? A Real‑World RSI Demo Shows iCoder‑27B Self‑Improvement

The article examines recursive self‑improvement (RSI) by detailing a joint research effort that used an AI agent to autonomously develop the 27‑billion‑parameter iCoder‑27B industrial coding model, presenting benchmark gains, failure analyses, and a nuanced view of RSI versus lossy self‑improvement.

AI-Led Model DevelopmentIndustrial CodingOPSD

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Can AI Build Itself? A Real‑World RSI Demo Shows iCoder‑27B Self‑Improvement

Machine Heart

Jul 9, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Can Your Self‑Distillation Model Do Without Reference Solutions? Introducing d‑OPSD for Diffusion LLMs

The paper presents d‑OPSD, the first on‑policy self‑distillation framework for diffusion large language models that eliminates reference solutions and extra teacher models, using only one‑tenth of RL steps while achieving equal or superior reasoning performance and markedly higher training efficiency, as demonstrated on multiple math‑reasoning benchmarks.

Diffusion Language ModelsOPSDSelf-Distillation

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Can Your Self‑Distillation Model Do Without Reference Solutions? Introducing d‑OPSD for Diffusion LLMs