Alita: Generalist Agent With Self-Evolution

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This academic paper presents Alita, a novel generalist agent designed to enhance scalable agentic reasoning with a focus on minimal predefinition and maximal self-evolution. Unlike conventional agents that rely heavily on pre-designed tools and workflows, Alita utilizes a radically simple design with a core web agent and the ability to autonomously generate, refine, and reuse capabilities via Model Context Protocols (MCPs). The paper highlights Alita's superior performance on benchmarks like GAIA, Mathvista, and PathVQA compared to more complex systems, attributing this success to its self-evolving architecture and reduced dependence on extensive manual engineering. The research also demonstrates that Alita-generated MCPs can improve the performance of other agent frameworks and agents utilizing smaller language models.

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