[thald]

I was working some time ago on LLM assisted optimizations and algorithm discovery and this does not look like a novel idea.

AlphaEvolve from google is evolutionary algorithm which uses LLMs for Idea generation following very similar loop:

- https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-co...

- Open source implementation of the algorithm: https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve

[zby]

It is not novel - but with the new models it is just becoming practical.

[amelius]

I mean, this is such low hanging fruit, you have to be careful not to step on it.

[riedel]

Just because it is a nice meme I want to throw in Schmidhuber's work on (do not treat this comment as serious except you are Schmidhuber himself):

* Gödel Machine (2006-2007) [1]

* Optimal Ordered Problem Solver (2002) [2]

* Meta-Learning and Artificial Curiosity (1990s onward) [3]

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2505.22954v3

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0207097

[3] https://evolution.ml/pdf/schmidhuber.pdf

Edit: markdown formatting

[fesens]

Nice references! tks