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Addresses karpathy#314. Instructs the agent to periodically review its own experiment history, identify repeated failure patterns, maintain a hypotheses blacklist, and refine its research strategy. Inspired by the HyperAgent framework (Meta FAIR, 2025) - the concept that the improvement mechanism itself should be improvable.
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Summary
Addresses #314. Adds a
## Meta-Researchsection toprogram.mdthat instructs the agent to periodically review its own experiment history and refine its research strategy.What this adds
Every 20 experiments, the agent:
results.tsvfor repeated failure patterns (same hypothesis type discarded 3+ times)hypotheses_blacklist.md(untracked, like results.tsv)What this does NOT change
Why
The current loop optimizes
train.pybut the research strategy inprogram.mdis static. After 50+ experiments, the agent may keep trying hypothesis classes that have been proven unproductive. A meta-research step lets the agent learn from its own experiment history and focus on productive directions.This is inspired by the HyperAgent framework (Zhang, Lehman, Clune - Meta FAIR, 2025) - the principle that the improvement mechanism itself should be subject to improvement. The outer eval loop stays fixed; the research strategy evolves.