Agora’s Git-based shared memory for research agents
A post highlights an NVIDIA paper on a design meant to keep coding agents from repeating experiments and help them build on one another’s verified results.
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A post describing an NVIDIA paper says Agora records every result, hypothesis and verification as an immutable Git commit. Links show what each claim builds on, while an index tracks open branches and verified claims. The post reports that 13 LLM workers ran for nearly 12 days without assigned tasks or a central planner, making 1,703 contributions. Their task was to initialize a 119.6M-parameter hybrid model from 141 donor models without training data or gradient updates. The post reports an improvement from 3.39 to 1.899 bits per byte, closing 62% of the gap to a trained GPT-2 124M, and says all 165 independent reproductions succeeded.
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Agora’s Git-based shared memory for research agents
A post highlights an NVIDIA paper on a design meant to keep coding agents from repeating experiments and help them build on one another’s verified results.