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I'm surprised by how little detail is given about the evolution procedure: >In AlphaEvolve, the evolutionary database implements an algorithm that is inspired
by Imnimo 1y ago
I'm surprised by how little detail is given about the evolution procedure:
>In AlphaEvolve, the evolutionary database implements an algorithm that is inspired by a combination of the MAP elites algorithm [71] and island-based population models [80, 94].
"inspired by" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence. How do you choose dimensions of variation to do MAP-elites? How do you combine these two algorithms? How loose is the inspiration? It feels like a lot of the secret sauce is in the answers to these questions, and we get a single paragraph on how the evolution procedure works, which is so vague as to tell us almost nothing.
- pilooch 1y agoYes the 2023 reference on island based evolution with LLMs (nature article) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6 has more details. Agreed the dimensions/features are key. These white papers are an insult to science...
- letitgo12345 1y agoMost straightforward would be to ask the model to generate different evaluation metrics (which they already seem to do) and use each one as one of the dimensions
- hariseldom 1y agohttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09891v1 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09891v1 from deepmind in January goes into the evolutionary algorithm a bit - no math though.