AutoLLMResearch: Training Research Agents for Automating LLM Experiment Configuration -- Learning from Cheap, Optimizing Expensive
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This paper introduces AutoLLMResearch, an agentic framework that automates the configuration of expensive LLM experiments by learning from low-fidelity environments and extrapolating to high-cost settings. It aims to reduce computational waste and reliance on expert intuition in scalable LLM research.
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Abstract
An agentic framework called AutoLLMResearch automates high-cost large language model experiment configurations by learning from multi-fidelity experimental environments and enabling efficient configuration identification through cross-fidelity extrapolation.
Effectively configuring scalable large language model (LLM) experiments, spanning architecture design, hyperparameter tuning, and beyond, is crucial for advancing LLM research, as poor configuration choices can waste substantial computational resources and prevent models from realizing their full potential. Prior automated methods are designed for low-cost settings where repeated trial and error is feasible, but scalable LLM experiments are too expensive for such extensive iteration. To our knowledge, no work has addressed the automation of high-cost LLM experiment configurations, leaving this problem labor-intensive and dependent on expert intuition. Motivated by this gap, we propose AutoLLMResearch, anagentic frameworkthat mimics how human researchers learn generalizable principles from low-fidelity experiments and extrapolate to efficiently identify promising configurations in expensive LLM settings. The core challenge is how to enable an agent to learn, through interaction with a multi-fidelity experimental environment that captures the structure of the LLM configuration landscape. To achieve this, we propose a systematic framework with two key components: 1)LLMConfig-Gym, amulti-fidelity environmentencompassing four critical LLM experiment tasks, supported by over one million GPU hours of verifiable experiment outcomes; 2) A structured training pipeline that formulates configuration research as a long-horizonMarkov Decision Processand accordingly incentivizescross-fidelity extrapolationreasoning. Extensive evaluation against diverse strong baselines on held-out experiments demonstrates the effectiveness, generalization, and interpretability of our framework, supporting its potential as a practical and general solution for scalable real-world LLM experiment automation.
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