% References for "Self-Evolving Agents: Survey, Taxonomy, and How Self-Improving AI Agents Work"
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@misc{novikov2025alphaevolve,
  title         = {AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery},
  author        = {Novikov, Alexander and V{\~u}, Ng{\^a}n and Eisenberger, Marvin and Dupont, Emilien and Huang, Po-Sen and Wagner, Adam Zsolt and Shirobokov, Sergey and Kozlovskii, Borislav and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Mehrabian, Abbas and Kumar, M. Pawan and See, Abigail and Chaudhuri, Swarat and Holland, George and Davies, Alex and Nowozin, Sebastian and Kohli, Pushmeet and Balog, Matej},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2506.13131},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.AI},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131}
}

@misc{tang2026fars,
  title         = {FARS: A Fully Automated Research System Deployed at Scale},
  author        = {Tang, Qiong and Hu, Xiangkun and Liu, Xiangyang and Chen, Yiran and Shao, Yunfan},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2606.31651},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31651}
}

@misc{agrawal2025gepa,
  title         = {GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning},
  author        = {Agrawal, Lakshya A and Tan, Shangyin and Soylu, Dilara and Ziems, Noah and Khare, Rishi and Opsahl-Ong, Krista and Singhvi, Arnav and Shandilya, Herumb and Ryan, Michael J and Jiang, Meng and Potts, Christopher and Sen, Koushik and Dimakis, Alexandros G. and Stoica, Ion and Klein, Dan and Zaharia, Matei and Khattab, Omar},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2507.19457},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19457}
}

@misc{xu2026eevee,
  title         = {EEVEE: Towards Test-time Prompt Learning in the Real World for Self-Improving Agents},
  author        = {Xu, Weixian and Liu, Shilong and Wang, Mengdi},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2606.11182},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11182}
}

@misc{xiao2026uimem,
  title         = {UI-Mem: Self-Evolving Experience Memory for Online Reinforcement Learning in Mobile GUI Agents},
  author        = {Xiao, Han and Wang, Guozhi and Wang, Hao and Liu, Shilong and Chai, Yuxiang and Pan, Yue and Zhou, Yufeng and Chen, Xiaoxin and Wen, Yafei and Li, Hongsheng},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2602.05832},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05832}
}

@misc{qiu2025alita,
  title         = {Alita: Generalist Agent Enabling Scalable Agentic Reasoning with Minimal Predefinition and Maximal Self-Evolution},
  author        = {Qiu, Jiahao and Qi, Xuan and Zhang, Tongcheng and Juan, Xinzhe and Guo, Jiacheng and Lu, Yifu and Wang, Yimin and Yao, Zixin and Ren, Qihan and Jiang, Xun and Zhou, Xing and Liu, Dongrui and Yang, Ling and Wu, Yue and Huang, Kaixuan and Liu, Shilong and Wang, Hongru and Wang, Mengdi},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2505.20286},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20286}
}

@misc{wang2026boundaryrouter,
  title         = {Learning Agent Routing From Early Experience},
  author        = {Wang, Yimin and Qiu, Jiahao and Qi, Xuan and Juan, Xinzhe and Shi, Jingzhe and Zhao, Zelin and Wang, Hongru and Liu, Shilong and Wang, Mengdi},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2605.07180},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07180}
}

@misc{zhao2025absolutezero,
  title         = {Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data},
  author        = {Zhao, Andrew and Wu, Yiran and Yue, Yang and Wu, Tong and Xu, Quentin and Yue, Yang and Lin, Matthieu and Wang, Shenzhi and Wu, Qingyun and Zheng, Zilong and Huang, Gao},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2505.03335},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.LG},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335}
}

@misc{gao2025surveyselfevolving,
  title         = {A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence},
  author        = {Gao, Huan-ang and Geng, Jiayi and Hua, Wenyue and Hu, Mengkang and Juan, Xinzhe and Liu, Hongzhang and Liu, Shilong and Qiu, Jiahao and Qi, Xuan and Wu, Yiran and Wang, Hongru and Xiao, Han and Zhou, Yuhang and Zhang, Shaokun and Zhang, Jiayi and Xiang, Jinyu and Fang, Yixiong and Zhao, Qiwen and Liu, Dongrui and Ren, Qihan and Qian, Cheng and Wang, Zhenhailong and Hu, Minda and Wang, Huazheng and Wu, Qingyun and Ji, Heng and Wang, Mengdi},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2507.21046},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.AI},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21046}
}

@misc{fang2025comprehensivesurvey,
  title         = {A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents: A New Paradigm Bridging Foundation Models and Lifelong Agentic Systems},
  author        = {Fang, Jinyuan and Peng, Yanwen and Zhang, Xi and Wang, Yingxu and Yi, Xinhao and Zhang, Guibin and Xu, Yi and Wu, Bin and Liu, Siwei and Li, Zihao and Ren, Zhaochun and Aletras, Nikos and Wang, Xi and Zhou, Han and Meng, Zaiqiao},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2508.07407},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.AI},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07407}
}

@misc{ouyang2025reasoningbank,
  title         = {ReasoningBank: Scaling Agent Self-Evolving with Reasoning Memory},
  author        = {Ouyang, Siru and Yan, Jun and Hsu, I-Hung and Chen, Yanfei and Jiang, Ke and Wang, Zifeng and Han, Rujun and Le, Long T. and Daruki, Samira and Tang, Xiangru and Tirumalashetty, Vishy and Lee, George and Rofouei, Mahsan and Lin, Hangfei and Han, Jiawei and Lee, Chen-Yu and Pfister, Tomas},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2509.25140},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.AI},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25140}
}

@misc{zhang2025memgen,
  title         = {MemGen: Weaving Generative Latent Memory for Self-Evolving Agents},
  author        = {Zhang, Guibin and Fu, Muxin and Yan, Shuicheng},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2509.24704},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24704}
}

@misc{zhai2025agentevolver,
  title         = {AgentEvolver: Towards Efficient Self-Evolving Agent System},
  author        = {Zhai, Yunpeng and Tao, Shuchang and Chen, Cheng and Zou, Anni and Chen, Ziqian and Fu, Qingxu and Mai, Shinji and Yu, Li and Deng, Jiaji and Cao, Zouying and Liu, Zhaoyang and Ding, Bolin and Zhou, Jingren},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2511.10395},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.LG},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10395}
}