Video course · 9 chapters · 68 min · certificate
Self-Improving AI Agents: Open Problems & Future Directions
A research-level look at self-improving AI agents: recapping evolution, tool use and verifiers, then open problems in test-time scaling, meta-verification, multi-agent fine-tuning, self-proposed curricula, efficient inference and future research directions.
What you'll learn
- Recap the self-improvement paradigms for agents
- Explain the role of verifiers and rewards
- Describe test-time scaling and diversity
- Explain meta-verification and multi-agent fine-tuning
- Understand self-proposed tasks and curriculum learning
- Identify open problems in AI inference and efficiency
Chapters
9 chapters · 67:42-
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01Recap Members
Course recap
Self-improvement, evolutionary strategies, end-to-end workflows with tools, and agents as generalized LLMs.
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2:19
02Verifiers Members
Orchestration and verifiers
Building workflows means orchestrating LLMs and verifiers, since you need a reward.
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2:00
03Scaling Members
Test-time scaling and diversity
Improving with multiple samples and voting at test time, and using feedback at training time.
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5:20
04Verification Members
Meta-verification
DeepSeek Math V2's meta-verification: critiquing critiques using multiple agents.
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8:00
05Fine-tuning Members
Multi-agent fine-tuning
Fine-tuning multiple agents to keep diversity, tested on math with open-source models.
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2:13
06Results Members
Iterative proof improvement
Proof scores climbing over iterations, and best-of-32 selection.
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18:27
07Curriculum Members
Self-proposed tasks and curricula
Deciding what data or prompts to train on, including models that propose their own tasks.
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14:00
08Efficiency Members
Future inference and efficiency
How AI workloads, model sizes and accelerators will evolve.
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12:42
09Research Members
Open questions
Moving beyond single-turn chat: open research directions for agentic systems.