ArticleTerry Chen, Yeyin (Eva) Zhu, Zhifan Ye, Jean-Francois Puget and Humphrey ShiResearch
These results illustrate that frontier long-horizon performance is driven by the overall agent system—including state management and error recovery—rather than base model capability alone.
By successfully applying identical agent mechanisms to both GPU kernel engineering and interactive rule discovery, NVIDIA shows that systematic iteration, hypothesis testing, and supervisory intervention can transfer cleanly across disparate problem domains.
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