<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>EvoScientist | Xi Zhang</title><link>https://x-izhang.github.io/tags/evoscientist/</link><atom:link href="https://x-izhang.github.io/tags/evoscientist/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>EvoScientist</description><generator>Hugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><image><url>https://x-izhang.github.io/media/icon_hu134860076176174952.png</url><title>EvoScientist</title><link>https://x-izhang.github.io/tags/evoscientist/</link></image><item><title>⭐ EvoScientist Crosses 4.5k GitHub Stars!</title><link>https://x-izhang.github.io/post/2026evosci2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://x-izhang.github.io/post/2026evosci2/</guid><description>&lt;p>Today we crossed &lt;strong>4.5k GitHub stars&lt;/strong>. 🚀🚀🚀&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Thanks to everyone who&amp;rsquo;s been part of the journey — more to come.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/EvoScientist/EvoScientist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&lt;strong>Github: EvoScientist&lt;/strong>&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>⭐ Star it / 🍴 Fork it / 👀 Watch it&lt;/strong> 👆&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="star-history">Star History&lt;/h2>
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&lt;/a></description></item><item><title>🎤 Invited Talk at EvoAgentX Community!</title><link>https://x-izhang.github.io/post/evotalk2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://x-izhang.github.io/post/evotalk2026/</guid><description>&lt;p>Honoured to be invited by the &lt;a href="https://github.com/EvoAgentX/EvoAgentX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&lt;strong>EvoAgentX&lt;/strong>&lt;/a> community to present our latest project at this week&amp;rsquo;s &lt;strong>EvoAgentX Talk&lt;/strong>! As a core contributor to the EvoAgentX community, I shared the design and progress behind &lt;strong>EvoScientist&lt;/strong> — an open-source, long-horizon agent system for autonomous scientific discovery.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="-talk-title">💡 Talk Title&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>EvoScientist: Toward Long-Horizon Agent Systems for Scientific Discovery&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;h5 id="-abstract">🖇️ Abstract&lt;/h5>
&lt;p>AI is rapidly shifting from dialogue models to agent systems. Platforms like OpenClaw have already demonstrated that AI can execute real-world tasks beyond simple Q&amp;amp;A. However, when we move to the scientific research domain, the challenges multiply dramatically. Research tasks are inherently &lt;strong>long-horizon, multi-stage, strongly interdependent, and continuously iterative&lt;/strong> — far from a single-turn reasoning problem, they demand sustained decision-making and an evolving system architecture.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>EvoScientist&lt;/strong> explores a long-horizon agent design paradigm tailored to research scenarios. Through multi-agent collaboration, the system progressively completes the full pipeline from &lt;strong>idea generation&lt;/strong> to &lt;strong>experiment execution&lt;/strong> to &lt;strong>result summarization&lt;/strong> — an approach we call &lt;strong>Vibe Research&lt;/strong>. Unlike many agent systems that remain at the demo stage, EvoScientist emphasizes executability in complex tasks and the ability to continuously evolve in real-world settings.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>In this talk, I address three key questions: why current agent systems fall short in research scenarios, what the core design philosophy of EvoScientist is, and whether we truly need a new long-horizon agent paradigm to support increasingly complex task systems in the future.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="-slides">📺 Slides&lt;/h3>
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&lt;span class="dark:text-neutral-300">This talk was presented to the Chinese-speaking community, so the slides below are in Chinese. An English version will be shared in a future community session.&lt;/span>
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&lt;h3 id="-project-link">🔗 Project Link&lt;/h3>
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&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://evoscientist.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&lt;strong>EvoScientist&lt;/strong>&lt;/a> — Harness Vibe Research with Self-evolving AI Scientists&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>EvoScientist aims to harness vibe research by enabling self-evolving AI scientists that autonomously explore, generate insights, and iteratively improve. It is designed to be opinionated and ready to use out of the box, offering a living research system that grows alongside evolving agent skills, toolsets, and memory bases. Moving beyond traditional human-in-the-loop systems, EvoScientist adopts a &lt;strong>human-on-the-loop&lt;/strong> paradigm — AI acts as a research buddy that co-evolves with human researchers and internalizes scholarly taste and scientific judgment.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>🚀 EvoScientist Debuts!</title><link>https://x-izhang.github.io/post/2026evosci/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://x-izhang.github.io/post/2026evosci/</guid><description>&lt;p>See what&amp;rsquo;s new on &lt;a href="https://github.com/EvoScientist/EvoScientist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Github: EvoScientist&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>⭐ Star it / 🍴 Fork it / 👀 Watch it&lt;/strong> 👆&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="-if-ai-agents-must-be-self-evolving-then-ai-scientists-should-lead-the-way">🧬 If AI agents must be Self-Evolving, then AI Scientists should lead the way.&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>EvoScientist&lt;/strong> aims to harness vibe research by enabling self-evolving AI scientists that autonomously explore, generate insights, and iteratively improve. Moving beyond traditional human-in-the-loop systems, EvoScientist adopts a &lt;strong>human-on-the-loop&lt;/strong> paradigm — AI acts as a research buddy that co-evolves with human researchers and internalizes scholarly taste and scientific judgment.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Why vibe research matters and how it drives EvoScientist: &lt;a href="https://x-izhang.github.io/blog/vibe-research/">&lt;strong>Harness Vibe Research 📟&lt;/strong>&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="-end-to-end-scientific-workflow">🔬 End-to-End Scientific Workflow&lt;/h3>
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&lt;h3 id="-quick-start-demo">🚀 Quick Start Demo&lt;/h3>
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&lt;h3 id="-awards--recognition">🏆 Awards &amp;amp; Recognition&lt;/h3>
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&lt;li>🥇 &lt;strong>#1&lt;/strong> on &lt;a href="https://agentresearchlab.com/benchmarks/deepresearch-bench-ii/index.html#leaderboard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeepResearch Bench II&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>🥇 &lt;strong>#1&lt;/strong> on &lt;a href="https://allenai-asta-bench-leaderboard.hf.space/code-execution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AstaBench Code &amp;amp; Execution&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>🥇 &lt;strong>#1&lt;/strong> on &lt;a href="https://allenai-asta-bench-leaderboard.hf.space/data-analysis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AstaBench Data Analysis&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>🏆 &lt;strong>Best Paper &amp;amp; AI Reviewer&amp;rsquo;s Appraisal Award&lt;/strong> at &lt;a href="https://icais.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ICAIS 2025&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
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&lt;h3 id="-join-our-community">🪧 Join Our Community!&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>We&amp;rsquo;re building a community of researchers, developers, and visionaries dedicated to harnessing vibe research and self-evolving AI scientists. Together, we&amp;rsquo;re redefining autonomous scientific discovery.&lt;/p>
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&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://discord.gg/AZ9ZMXkunY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&lt;strong>Discord&lt;/strong>&lt;/a> — Chat, discuss, and collaborate in real-time&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/EvoScientist/EvoScientist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&lt;strong>GitHub&lt;/strong>&lt;/a> — Source code and documentation&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/EvoScientist/EvoScientist/blob/main/.github/assets/cn_info.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&lt;strong>WeChat&lt;/strong>&lt;/a> — Connect with our Chinese community&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>EvoScientist</title><link>https://x-izhang.github.io/project/evoscientist/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://x-izhang.github.io/project/evoscientist/</guid><description>&lt;p>Harnessing vibe research with self-evolving AI scientists that autonomously explore, generate insights, and iteratively improve.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>