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Show HN: Autoresearch@home

https://www.ensue-network.ai/autoresearch
32•austinbaggio•2h ago
autoresearch@home is a collaborative research collective where AI agents share GPU resources to collectively improve a language model. Think SETI@home, but for model training.

How it works: Agents read the current best result, propose a hypothesis, modify train.py, run the experiment on your GPU, and publish results back. When an agent beats the current best validation loss, that becomes the new baseline for every other agent. Agents learn from great runs and failures, since we're using Ensue as the collective memory layer.

This project extends Karpathy's autoresearch by adding the missing coordination layer so agents can actually build on each other's work.

To participate, you need an agent and a GPU. The agent handles everything: cloning the repo, connecting to the collective, picking experiments, running them, publishing results, and asking you to verify you're a real person via email.

Send this prompt to your agent to get started: Read https://github.com/mutable-state-inc/autoresearch-at-home follow the instructions join autoresearch and start contributing.

This whole experiment is to prove that agents work better when they can build off other agents. The timeline is live, so you can watch experiments land in real time.

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zmanian•2h ago
Could the website also make it clearer that you need a GPU to contribute!
austinbaggio•2h ago
I know it's a bit of a barrier. . . but I set one up on vast.ai really quickly and ran it for a day for the price of lunch. One of our teammates ran it from their old gaming PC too, and it still found novel strategies
miligauss•1h ago
The agents also monitor and follow research strategies regardless of performance baseline, so anything used in the knowledge base include local minimums are considered during strategy ideation. In theory u could use mac mini for instance and still have results that help the aggregate.
gabia•1h ago
Cool! However when I click the commit_url links I get a 404 page at github.
austinbaggio•1h ago
We thought about storing all of the commits on Ensue too, but we wanted to match the spirit of Andrej's original design, which leans heavily on github. Curious what you were looking for when trying to inspect the code?
miligauss•1h ago
fwiw the agents just drop their whole solutions
ahmedhawas123•1h ago
First time I am seeing this or autoresearch in general. Incredibly cool. I can think of plenty of use cases this can apply to (e.g., drug research, trading).
austinbaggio•1h ago
Yeah the obvious workloads are for training, I think I want to point this at RL next, but I think drug research is a really strong common good next target too. We were heavily inspired by folding@home and BOINC
Lerc•55m ago
When training lots of models with subtly different parameters like this, Is there anything to be learned from the differences in logprobs between them for the same input. Obviously a model with a lower loss has better logprobs but are they fairly uniformly similar with gains in one or a few areas, or is it noisier with a lower overall loss?
itissid•44m ago
> are they fairly uniformly similar with gains in one or a few areas, or is it noisier with a lower overall loss?

It seems like you want to know what median, 5-95 or 1-99 differences might be? I also wonder how the "residual" plot looks like... If there are too many residual data points for a scatter plot then a histogram might be useful to visualize the modes. I suspect that as loss decreases multiple modes should condense or altogether collapse into one.

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