For the first article of the The Next Horizon of System Intelligence series, we invite the ADRS team from Berkeley to share their recent work which has raised very active discussions in the community.

AI is no longer just tuning systems as a “black box.” It’s now rewriting their core algorithms by treating the system as a “white box” and discovering solutions that can outperform human experts in a few hours. This new approach, which we term AI-Driven Research for Systems (ADRS), can automate some of the most tedious parts of research.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06189 Code: https://github.com/UCB-ADRS/ADRS X: https://x.com/ai4research_ucb Join our Slack and Discord