Open-source multi-agent framework where agents act as a decentralized research lab with a shared state, experiment log, forum and dead-end registry. Beats other agentic frameworks on BioML-bench's 24 biomedical ML tasks.
AutoScientists
Decentralized multi-agent LLM framework where agents self-organize into teams for long-running computational research.
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AutoScientists at a glance
- What is AutoScientists?
- AutoScientists is an agent. Decentralized multi-agent LLM framework where agents self-organize into teams for long-running computational research.
- Does AutoScientists work in the EU?
- Unverified. No explicit evidence found. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does AutoScientists cost?
- Open source. Described by a YouTube reviewer as open source; no pricing found. Running it requires LLM API and GPU compute costs.
- Where was AutoScientists shown?
- In 1 creator video by AI Search. Most recently by AI Search on 31 May 2026, at 27:41 in “Self-improving AI, Opus 4.8, Nvidia bangers, game-ready 3D models, juggling robots: AI NEWS”.
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AutoScientists is a research framework from Shanghua Gao, Ada Fang and Marinka Zitnik. It deploys several long-running LLM agents with no central orchestrator. The agents read a shared experimental state, form teams around research directions, and run experiments in parallel. The shared state holds the current champion program, an experiment log, a structured discussion forum, and per-team queues and dead-end registries that other teams can read.
The system alternates between a discussion phase and an execution phase. In discussion, agents critique and filter proposals before any experimental compute is committed. When a team stagnates, agents trigger re-discussion and may reorganize into new teams. Both successful and failed findings are shared across teams to reduce redundant exploration. Analyst agents handle proposal generation, knowledge-file maintenance and hypothesis tracking.
According to the project page, at matched experimental budgets it reaches a mean leaderboard percentile of 74.4% across the 24 BioML-Bench tasks, against 66.07% for autoresearch. On GPT (nanochat) training optimization it reaches a target validation bits-per-byte 1.9x faster than autoresearch. On ProteinGym it found a Kermut-based method that improves average Spearman correlation from 0.657 to 0.700 across 217 assays. These are the authors' own reported results. The system targets computational experiments with automatically gradable outcomes, not wet-lab work.
- No central orchestrator; agents self-organize into research teams
- Shared state with champion program, experiment log, forum, and per-team dead-end registries
- Discussion phase to critique proposals before committing compute
- Cross-team sharing of successful and failed findings
- Evaluated on BioML-Bench, GPT training optimization and ProteinGym
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