Of course if you start without any inductive biases (i.e. a program schema in the case of the FunSearch approach) there will be a "cold start" problem, but FunS

Of course if you start without any inductive biases (i.e. a program schema in the case of the FunSearch approach) there will be a "cold start" problem, but FunSearch doesn't start cold, as genetic programming doesn't start cold. The question is the "cold start issue". That's what I'm addressing. Maybe you're not used to being corrected? Get used to it.