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Summary

  • autoresearch/ — karpathy/autoresearch cloned as reference implementation: an autonomous ML research loop where an AI agent modifies train.py, trains a GPT for 5 minutes, records val_bpb, and keeps or resets the change
  • learnzy-autoresearch/ — Learnzy's hypothesis validation loop, modeled 1:1 on autoresearch but for scientific literature instead of ML training
  • Searches peer-reviewed literature (OpenAlex, 250M+ works) for evidence supporting the Focus Score hypothesis (HRV + Sleep → cognition → academic grades + mental health prediction)
  • Each run: GPT-4o proposes search queries → OpenAlex fetches papers → GPT-4o-mini extracts effect sizes → evidence_score computed → hypothesis.py committed if improved, reset if not
  • Runs autonomously on GitHub Actions every 10 minutes

Test plan

  • Run python sources.py locally — confirm OpenAlex returns papers and evidence_score prints
  • Run python agent.py locally with OPENAI_API_KEY set — confirm full loop completes in <5 min
  • Trigger workflow_dispatch on notebook-learnzy/learnzy-autoresearch — confirm Actions run clean
  • Check results.tsv after first run — confirm per-link scores are populated

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Adds two directories:

autoresearch/ — karpathy/autoresearch cloned as reference implementation.
An autonomous ML research loop where an AI agent modifies train.py,
trains a GPT for 5 minutes, records val_bpb, and keeps or resets the
change. Used as the architectural blueprint for learnzy-autoresearch.

learnzy-autoresearch/ — Learnzy's hypothesis validation loop, modeled
1:1 on autoresearch but for scientific literature instead of ML training:

  - sources.py  : fixed infrastructure — OpenAlex API client +
                  evaluate_evidence() metric (analog to prepare.py)
  - hypothesis.py: mutable search queries per hypothesis link
                  (analog to train.py, agent modifies this each run)
  - agent.py    : fixed orchestrator — one experiment per execution
  - program.md  : agent instructions (analog to program.md)
  - .github/workflows/research.yml: GitHub Actions cron loop (10 min)

The loop searches peer-reviewed literature (OpenAlex, 250M+ works)
for evidence supporting the Focus Score hypothesis:
  A: HRV → cognition
  B: Sleep → cognition
  C: Cognition → academic grades
  D1/D2/D3: Focus Score → depression / anxiety / insomnia

Each run: GPT-4o proposes new search queries → OpenAlex fetches papers
→ GPT-4o-mini extracts effect sizes and study quality → evidence_score
computed → hypothesis.py committed if improved, reset if not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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There is an issue in commit 5e969dc:
Add Learnzy hypothesis autoresearch loop

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Bug 1: Papers from OpenAlex were getting filtered to 0 after LLM
extraction because n defaulted to 0 and the min_sample_size=20 filter
removed everything when the OpenAI API call failed or returned n=0.
Fix: initialise n with cited_by_count//5 (proxy) so papers survive the
filter even if extraction doesn't produce an explicit sample size.
Add verbose pre/post-extraction counts and better API error logging.

Bug 2: ensure_branch() was switching to autoresearch/<date> branch,
causing 'tip of branch is behind' push failures on every second run.
Fix: remove branch switching entirely — commit directly to whatever
branch Actions checked out (main), same approach as autoresearch.

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There is an issue in commit 5e969dc:
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There is an issue in commit dcdeb64:
fix: papers dropping to 0 + push branch conflict

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