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New agent DisCo distills 5,000+ ML skills from GitHub repos

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Researchers have developed DisCo, a novel skill-powered agent designed to enhance autonomous machine-learning research. DisCo distills operational knowledge from GitHub repositories and research papers into compact, reusable skills. This process has resulted in the AREX-Skill Library, containing over 5,000 verified skills derived from 1,000 ML repositories. When integrated with a GPT-5.5 backbone, DisCo demonstrated significant performance improvements on benchmarks like MLE-bench and PaperBench compared to agents without these distilled skills. AI

IMPACT Enhances autonomous ML research capabilities by providing agents with distilled operational knowledge, leading to significant performance gains.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a research paper detailing a new method and agent for distilling knowledge into reusable skills for ML research.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jianlyu Chen, Yuyang Hu, Hongjin Qian, Jiawei Liu, Wenqing Wei, Xiaolong Chen, Defu Lian, Zhicheng Dou, Chaozhuo Li, Qiwei Ye, Zheng Liu ·

    Repo-To-Skill: Distilling GitHub Repositories Into AI4AI Skills

    arXiv:2609.02749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents are beginning to carry out machine-learning (ML) research end to end. These agents combine a model backbone with a harness for planning, execution, memory, and verification, but this architecture still leaves domai…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Repo-To-Skill: Distilling GitHub Repositories Into AI4AI Skills

    Autonomous agents are beginning to carry out machine-learning (ML) research end to end. These agents combine a model backbone with a harness for planning, execution, memory, and verification, but this architecture still leaves domain-specific know-how outside the agent. We call t…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Repo-To-Skill: Distilling GitHub Repositories Into AI4AI Skills

    DisCo is a research agent that distills operational knowledge into reusable skills, significantly improving autonomous ML research performance across benchmarks.

  4. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Repo-To-Skill just turned 341 GitHub repos into reusable AI4AI skills — not a demo, a distillation pipeline. See how they traced each one. https:// huggingface.

    Repo-To-Skill just turned 341 GitHub repos into reusable AI4AI skills — not a demo, a distillation pipeline. See how they traced each one. https:// huggingface.co/papers/2609.027 49 # AI # MachineLearning # Research

    LINKS huggingface.co/…/2609.02749

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