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Autodata: An agentic data scientist to create high quality synthetic data

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arXiv:2606.25996 (cs)
[Submitted on 24 Jun 2026]

Title:Autodata: An agentic data scientist to create high quality synthetic data

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Abstract:We introduce Autodata, a general method that enables AI agents to act as data scientists who build high quality training and evaluation data. We show how to train (meta-optimize) such a data scientist agent, so that it learns to create even stronger data. We describe the overall formulation, and a specific practical implementation, Agentic Self-Instruct. We conduct experiments on computer science research tasks, legal reasoning tasks and reasoning with mathematical objects, where we obtain improved results compared to classical synthetic dataset creation methods. Further, meta-optimizing the data scientist agent itself delivers an even larger performance uplift. Agentic data creation provides a way to convert increased inference compute into higher quality model training. Overall, we believe this direction has the potential to change the way we build AI data.
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:2606.25996 [cs.AI]
  (or arXiv:2606.25996v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.25996
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From: Jason Weston [view email]
[v1] Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:08:31 UTC (19,889 KB)
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