Research Blog
Field notes from the closed loop.
Recursive self-improvement, scored on chips. Short notes from ARA Lab.
- Theoretical Foundation
Why Silicon is the Canonical Substrate for RSI
In open code and text, autonomous self-improvement loops degrade into model collapse. Silicon engineering provides deterministic, non-hackable ground truth.
- Architecture & Security
The In-Situ Flywheel: Turning Regressions into Weights
Semiconductor companies cannot route proprietary microarchitecture through public cloud APIs. Sovereign RSI infrastructure must operate entirely within the customer firewall.
- Measurements
What Training Changed, and What It Did Not
A fine-tuned 27B model passed hardware tasks the base model could not. Its circuits are still much larger than a strong agent's, and none of this was measured on a physical board.