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Oct 20, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

AI Agents Evolve by Reading Research: Microsoft & UCSB's ScholarEvolve

Microsoft and UCSB researchers introduce ScholarEvolve, a system where AI agents automatically read arXiv papers, implement new algorithms, and combine them to improve Agent Harness performance, boosting Qwen3.5-27B's AppWorld Challenge success from 49.6% to 63.6% without model retraining.