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Preprint: letting research agents forget (restart from the best result) beat letting them remember everything. Do you reset agents on purpose?

A preprint from UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Bespoke Labs (arXiv, Oct 14) tested teams of coding agents doing automated research on four tasks: heuristic programming, kernel optimization, and model training. What happened: more time, more agents, and more communication all plateaued as history piled…

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    Preprint: letting research agents forget (restart from the best result) beat letting them remember everything. Do you reset agents on purpose?

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