AIBuildAI: An AI Agent for Automatically Building AI Models

TL;DR

AIBuildAI is an AI agent that automates the entire AI model development process from task description to deployment, surpassing existing AutoML methods in versatility and performance.

Contribution

The paper introduces a hierarchical AI agent system that automates full AI model development, integrating multiple specialized LLM-based sub-agents for end-to-end automation.

Findings

AIBuildAI ranks first on MLE-Bench with 63.1% medal rate.

It outperforms all baseline methods on diverse AI tasks.

It matches the capabilities of experienced AI engineers.

Abstract

AI models underpin modern intelligent systems, driving advances across science, medicine, finance, and technology. Yet developing high-performing AI models remains a labor-intensive process that requires expert practitioners to iteratively design architectures, engineer representations, implement training pipelines and refine approaches through empirical evaluation. Existing AutoML methods partially alleviate this burden but remain limited to narrow aspects such as hyperparameter optimization and model selection within predefined search spaces, leaving the full development lifecycle largely dependent on human expertise. To address this gap, we introduce AIBuildAI, an AI agent that automatically builds AI models from a task description and training data. AIBuildAI adopts a hierarchical agent architecture in which a manager agent coordinates three specialized sub-agents: a designer for modeling strategy, a coder for implementation and debugging, and a tuner for training and performance optimization. Each sub-agent is itself a large language model (LLM) based agent capable of multi-step reasoning and tool use, enabling end-to-end automation of the AI model development process that goes beyond the scope of existing AutoML approaches. We evaluate AIBuildAI on MLE-Bench, a benchmark of realistic Kaggle-style AI development tasks spanning visual, textual, time-series and tabular modalities. AIBuildAI ranks first on MLE-Bench with a medal rate of 63.1%, outperforming all existing baseline methods and matching the capability of highly experienced AI engineers. These results demonstrate that hierarchical agent systems can automate the full AI model development process from task specification to deployable model, suggesting a pathway toward broadly accessible AI development with minimal human intervention.