OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution(algorithmicsuperintelligence.ai)
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OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution
https://algorithmicsuperintelligence.ai/blog/openevolve-overview/index.html
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If AlphaEvolve is: "a quality-diversity search framework for algorithm discovery" then maybe.
At the moment I'm mildly skeptical and uncertain of whether to twist or stick.
At the moment I'm mildly skeptical and uncertain of whether to twist or stick.
Agreed, not mentioned.
Nevertheless, I see a link to github for the OpenEvolve project [1] that in turn states:
> Open-source implementation of AlphaEvolve
[1] https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve
Nevertheless, I see a link to github for the OpenEvolve project [1] that in turn states:
> Open-source implementation of AlphaEvolve
[1] https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve
Very interesting that the LLM weights are co-evolved and reasoning skills improve!
What do you mean by this? I can't find anything there about modifying the used LLMs and the hosted ones wouldn't be possible to change. Do I misunderstand the convolved part you mentioned?
you are correct, on re-reading they only evolved the prompts ...
Some cool optimisations here: MAP elites, island models to prevent premature convergence & fast rejection of bad candidates.
What's particularly interesting is the meta level insight: The system discovered scipy.optimize.SLSQP for circle packing - a completely different algorithmic paradigm than it started with. It's genuinely discovering new approaches, not just parameter-tuning.
What's particularly interesting is the meta level insight: The system discovered scipy.optimize.SLSQP for circle packing - a completely different algorithmic paradigm than it started with. It's genuinely discovering new approaches, not just parameter-tuning.
Sakana.ai improved on this by honing in on sample efficiency iirc with shinkaevolve (which is open source and not an ai slop project)
Yep, ShinkaEvolve described here: https://sakana.ai/shinka-evolve/ and available here: https://github.com/SakanaAI/ShinkaEvolve
Though I'm not sure the public can access AlphaEvolve yet.
(https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131)