Closing the Loop: An Autonomous AI Research Agent
Tim Sweeney
- When
- Wednesday, July 11:30 PM – 1:50 PM · 20 min
- Where
- Main StageSan Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
About this session
The holy grail of agentic AI tooling is the autoresearch loop: an agent that can sift through your experiments, create visualizations, propose a hypothesis, launch a training job, read the results, and try again autonomously. In this session, we'll show new autoresearch capabilities built directly into the W&B Models web and iOS apps. We will demo these live using a real-world fine-tuning project, covering everything from launching jobs and reading loss curves to surfacing outlier runs that consume researcher hours and recommending the next steps. Then you'll learn how the eval-driven development loop in W&B Weave makes agents like this trustworthy. You'll see how production traces become benchmarks, and how only the agents that beat the bar make it to production. Join us to learn the same loop we use to improve our own agentic features.
Speaker
Principal Engineer, Weights & Biases by CoreWeave
Tim Sweeney is a Principal Engineer at Weights & Biases by CoreWeave. His WF26 main-stage session, "Closing the Loop: An Autonomous AI Research Agent," focuses on autonomous AI research agents and the feedback loops behind them.
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