Paper Lantern – improving Autoresearch with research knowledge

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Hi, we've been working on Paper Lantern - an MCP server that searches 2M+ CS research papers for coding agents. The coding agent describes its problem and PL returns ranked techniques with implementation steps, hyperparameters, and failure modes.We tested it on Karpathy's autoresearch framework : where the task is to find better llm architecture and training configs. In autoresearch, the agent proposes an optimization, tries a 5 min training run, calculates the val loss and then keeps / discards if the val loss lowered / increased.We compared a strong baseline agent (Opus 4.6 + web search) vs that same agent + Paper Lantern. - agent + Paper Lantern iterated to a config that got a much lower

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Website: www.paperlantern.ai/code