Source record

Published by arXiv cs.MA (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10468.

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The paper proposes organizing thousands of autonomous research agents under explicit institutional structures, including competitive compute allocation through proposals, independent review, and a human governor with no task assignment. In a 10,000-agent simulation aimed at improving language model pretraining, one lab reportedly reached similar quality with about 30% less compute, a result other labs have not yet confirmed.

Proposes explicit institutional design for large agent populations instead of ad-hoc organization. Six principles plus a 10,000-agent run make it more than a manifesto, though the headline efficiency result is still contested.

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