arxivcs.AI2026-07-08
Recursive Self-Improvement in AI: From Bounded Self-Refinement to Autonomous Research Loops
Mingguang Chen, Licheng Wang, Bo Qu
AI systems increasingly participate in their own improvement: revising their outputs, adapting their own harnesses during deployment, training on data they generate, and, increasingly, conducting AI research itself. This literature is described under a vocabulary ("self-refine,"…