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AREX-2 is a 27B-parameter long-horizon agent model from the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI). It learns to improve a solution over multiple test-time rounds: propose, measure, reflect, and revise.
AREX-2 is trained on machine-learning and algorithmic-programming tasks with verifiable feedback, together with the existing AREX deep-research data. The learned self-improvement behavior transfers to deep research without adding new search trajectories.
AREX-2 is evaluated on algorithmic programming, machine-learning engineering, deep research, and general agentic reasoning. Results follow the protocols reported in the AREX-2 paper.
Frontier-CS is the 188-task Agent Track. MLE-Lite reports Any Medal averaged over three seeds.
HLE values marked * are from the full HLE set; unmarked values use the text-only subset.
Use a recent Transformers release with Qwen3.8 support.
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pip install -U torch transformers acceleratepython
import torchfrom transformers import AutoModelForMultimodalLM, AutoProcessor model_id = "BAAI/AREX-2"processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained( model_id, dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto") messages = [{ "role": "user", "content": "Propose a solution and explain how you would improve it over several rounds.",}]inputs = processor.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt",).to(model.device) with torch.inference_mode(): outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=1024)print(processor.decode( outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))AREX-2 is intended for research on long-horizon agents, iterative problem solving, machine-learning engineering, algorithmic coding, and tool-augmented deep research.
AREX-2 is released under the Apache License 2.0. Follow the terms and notices for the Qwen base model and any downstream data or tools.
bibtex
@misc{baai2026arex, title={AREX: Towards a Recursively Self-Improving Agent for Deep Research}, author={Lu, Shuqi and Li, Chaofan and Luo, Kun and Zhang, Zhang and Wang, Hui and Xiao, Hongwang and Xiong, Lei and Wang, Jiahao and Wang, Sen and Jiang, Xiyan and Li, Wanli and Hu, Yuyang and Qian, Hongjin and Yan, Bingyu and Xia, Ziyi and Shao, Yingxia and Liu, Kang and Dou, Zhicheng and He, Di and Li, Chaozhuo and Ye, Qiwei and Wang, Zhongyuan and Liu, Zheng}, year={2026}, eprint={2607.21461}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.AI}, url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21461}}import torchfrom transformers import AutoModelForMultimodalLM, AutoProcessor model_id = "BAAI/AREX-2"processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained( model_id, dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto") messages = [{ "role": "user", "content": "Propose a solution and explain how you would improve it over several rounds.",}]inputs = processor.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt",).to(model.device) with torch.inference_mode(): outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=1024)print(processor.decode( outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))@misc{baai2026arex, title={AREX: Towards a Recursively Self-Improving Agent for Deep Research}, author={Lu, Shuqi and Li, Chaofan and Luo, Kun and Zhang, Zhang and Wang, Hui and Xiao, Hongwang and Xiong, Lei and Wang, Jiahao and Wang, Sen and Jiang, Xiyan and Li, Wanli and Hu, Yuyang and Qian, Hongjin and Yan, Bingyu and Xia, Ziyi and Shao, Yingxia and Liu, Kang and Dou, Zhicheng and He, Di and Li, Chaozhuo and Ye, Qiwei and Wang, Zhongyuan and Liu, Zheng}, year={2026}, eprint={2607.21461}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.AI}, url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21461}}