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June 26, 2026

Autodata: An Agentic Data Scientist to Create High-Quality Synthetic Data

Authors
Ilia Kulikov, Chenxi Whitehouse, Tianhao Wu, Yixin Nie, et al.
Venue
arXiv 2606.25996
Link
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Tags
agentssynthetic-dataself-instructmeta-optimization

Core idea

Agentic Self-Instruct: an inner loop where agents build datasets by sampling, reasoning, and self-feedback; an outer meta-optimizer improves the agent’s data-generation policy over time. Turns extra inference compute into higher training-data quality; gains on CS research, legal reasoning, and math vs. classical synthetic-data methods.