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Derek Dunfield

2 accepted papers

2025

AI Research Agents for Machine Learning: Search, Exploration, and Generalization in MLE-bench

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

AI research agents are demonstrating great potential to accelerate scientific progress by automating the design, implementation, and training of machine learning models. We focus on methods for improving agents' performance on MLE-bench, a challenging benchmark where agents compete in Kaggle competi…

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2025

The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements

NeurIPS 2025poster

Rapidly improving large language models (LLMs) have the potential to assist in scientific progress. One critical skill in this endeavor is the ability to faithfully reproduce existing work. To evaluate the capability of AI agents to reproduce complex code in an active research area, we introduce the…

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