--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "3f1c442082110b47379142107ae6111d2167b0e8921defaff7723e0a20166375" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/3f1c4420?lang=en" title: "Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-10-04T12:40:37.000Z" category: "Research" topics: ["google","agent"] source_urls: ["https://the-decoder.com/google-researchers-find-a-way-to-keep-self-improving-ai-agents-from-memorizing-their-tests/"] summary: "Self-improving AI agents tend to memorize their test tasks, so their gains shrink or disappear on new ones. RRSI, a new method from Google researchers, reins in this effect and lifts scores on unseen benchmarks by up to 4.7 points while using about 30 percent fewer tokens than an unregularized version. The article Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests appeared first on The Decoder ." --- # Google researchers find a way to keep self\-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-10-04T12:40:37.000Z **Category:** Research **Topics:** google, agent ## Summary Self\-improving AI agents tend to memorize their test tasks, so their gains shrink or disappear on new ones\. RRSI, a new method from Google researchers, reins in this effect and lifts scores on unseen benchmarks by up to 4\.7 points while using about 30 percent fewer tokens than an unregularized version\. The article Google researchers find a way to keep self\-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests appeared first on The Decoder \. ## Sources - [Story source]()