Agora

Autonomous research loops let one coding agent improve a training setup unattended, but running several means each starts from scratch and duplicates the search. Agora, from NVIDIA's Jan Kautz and Yi Dong's group, makes the research record itself the shared memory: an append-only DAG stored in Git where every result, insight, hypothesis, verification, and report is an immutable commit whose parents say what it builds on, so any claim can be checked out and rerun. A derived index exposes the frontier, neglected branches, and each claim's verification status, and a diversity-aware selection rule keeps the collective from collapsing onto one line. The paper reports 13 agents over 12 days producing 165 verified claims.