publications

2025

1. arXiv

   AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery

   Yixiu Liu, Yang Nan, Weixian Xu, and 4 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.18074, Jul 2025

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   While AI systems demonstrate exponentially improving capabilities, the pace of AI research itself remains linearly bounded by human cognitive capacity, creating an increasingly severe development bottleneck. We present ASI-Arch, the first demonstration of Artificial Superintelligence for AI research (ASI4AI) in the critical domain of neural architecture discovery–a fully autonomous system that shatters this fundamental constraint by enabling AI to conduct its own architectural innovation. Moving beyond traditional Neural Architecture Search (NAS), which is fundamentally limited to exploring human-defined spaces, we introduce a paradigm shift from automated optimization to automated innovation. ASI-Arch can conduct end-to-end scientific research in the domain of architecture discovery, autonomously hypothesizing novel architectural concepts, implementing them as executable code, training and empirically validating their performance through rigorous experimentation and past experience. ASI-Arch conducted 1,773 autonomous experiments over 20,000 GPU hours, culminating in the discovery of 106 innovative, state-of-the-art (SOTA) linear attention architectures. Like AlphaGo’s Move 37 that revealed unexpected strategic insights invisible to human players, our AI-discovered architectures demonstrate emergent design principles that systematically surpass human-designed baselines and illuminate previously unknown pathways for architectural innovation. Crucially, we establish the first empirical scaling law for scientific discovery itself–demonstrating that architectural breakthroughs can be scaled computationally, transforming research progress from a human-limited to a computation-scalable process. We provide comprehensive analysis of the emergent design patterns and autonomous research capabilities that enabled these breakthroughs, establishing a blueprint for self-accelerating AI systems.

   @article{liu2025alphago,
     title = {AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery},
     author = {Liu, Yixiu and Nan, Yang and Xu, Weixian and Hu, Xiangkun and Ye, Lyumanshan and Qin, Zhen and Liu, Pengfei},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.18074},
     year = {2025},
     month = jul,
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18074},
     doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2507.18074},
   }