The paper introduces EMO-STA, a two‑stage evolutionary multi‑task optimization framework for large‑language‑model (LLM) guided program discovery. First, it evolves a shared archive of executable programs across a family of related tasks; then it adapts selected shared candidates to each target task using strategies such as warm‑starting, best‑average, or best‑per‑task adaptation. Experiments on eight diverse task families show that EMO‑STA outperforms single‑task evolution under matched budgets, with balanced shared and adaptation budgets yielding the best results and shared evolution helping to reduce overfitting in low‑evidence scenarios.
By Halil Alperen Gozeten, Xuechen Zhang, Emrullah Ildiz, Ege Onur Taga, Tara Javidi, Samet Oymak
Successful mutation strategies in evolutionary code search may contain reusable knowledge that is useful beyond a single run, and in some cases may transfer across related tasks and domains. However, existing LLM-driven evolutionary frameworks largely discard such knowledge, repeatedly rediscovering similar ideas and limiting opportunities for cross-run and cross-task learning.
arXiv:2608. 10795v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Successful mutation strategies in evolutionary code search may contain reusable knowledge that is useful beyond a single run, and in some cases may transfer across related tasks and domains.
By Viktor Volkov, Valentin Khrulkov, Andrey V. Galichin, Danil Sivtsov, Nikita Glazkov, Olga Volkova, Konstantin Pchelin, Iaroslav Bespalov, Dmitry V. Dylov, Petr Anokhin, Ivan Oseledets
FrugalEvo introduces a cost‑aware evolutionary framework that pairs a high‑cost, powerful LLM with a cheaper LLM to explore and refine program solutions, respectively. It incorporates a cache‑efficient evolution process that maximizes prefix reuse across steps and defines a Budget‑Aware Area Under the Curve (BA‑AUC) metric to evaluate solution quality within a fixed cost budget. Across ten mathematical and systems optimization tasks, FrugalEvo matches or surpasses state‑of‑the‑art baselines in final solution quality and achieves higher BA‑AUC on nine tasks, while delivering new state‑of‑the‑art performance on circle packing for costs as low as $0.55 to $1.68.
By Hui Chen, Xuan Qi, James Xu Zhao, Zhaopeng Feng, Shilong Liu, Kuang Xu, Pang Wei Koh, Bryan Hooi
arXiv:2512. 23236v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Making deep learning recommendation model (DLRM) training and inference fast and efficient is important.
By Gang Liao, Hongsen Qin, Ying Wang, Alicia Golden, Michael Kuchnik, Yavuz Yetim, Jia Jiunn Ang, Chunli Fu, Yihan He, Samuel Hsia, Zewei Jiang, Dianshi Li, Uladzimir Pashkevich, Varna Puvvada, Feng Shi, Matt Steiner, Ruichao Xiao, Liyuan Li, Nathan Yan, Xiayu Yu, Zhou Fang, Roman Levenstein, Kunming Ho, Haishan Zhu, Alec Hammond, Richard Li, Ajit Mathews, Kaustubh Gondkar, Abdul Zainul-Abedin, Ketan Singh, Hongtao Yu, Wenyuan Chi, Barney Huang, Sean Zhang, Noah Weller, Zach Marine, Wyatt Cook, Carole-Jean Wu, Gaoxiang Liu
arXiv:2609.38757v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models are increasingly participating in complex real-world tasks in the form of algorithm-design agents, designing and refining algorit...
By Chen Lu, Ke Xue, Siyuan Xu, Mingxuan Yuan, Chao Qian
arXiv:2606. 06473v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly applied to long-horizon tasks such as scientific discovery and machine learning engineering (MLE), where sustained self-evolution becomes a key capability.
By Shangheng Du, Xiangchao Yan, Jinxin Shi, Zongsheng Cao, Shiyang Feng, Zichen Liang, Boyuan Sun, Tianshuo Peng, Yifan Zhou, Xin Li, Jie Zhou, Liang He, Bo Zhang, Lei Bai
KernelFoundry is a hardware‑aware evolutionary framework that optimizes GPU kernels by combining MAP‑Elites quality‑diversity search, meta‑prompt evolution, and template‑based parameter tuning. It generates SYCL and CUDA kernels, outperforming baseline methods with an average 2.3× speedup on KernelBench. The system is distributed, supports remote hardware access, and offers a flexible user interface for diverse real‑world kernel generation tasks.
By Nina Wiedemann, Quentin Leboutet, Michael Paulitsch, Diana Wofk, Benjamin Ummenhofer
The paper introduces HoliDivEvolve, a holistic strategy for maintaining diversity in LLM-guided evolutionary search. It employs diverse initialization, trajectory‑adaptive island selection, and growth‑adaptive migration to ensure distinct search directions and effective knowledge sharing across islands. Experiments on varied benchmarks demonstrate competitive performance and provide controlled analyses of the design choices.
arXiv:2606. 29082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Would experience designing faster GPU kernels also help close in on a long-standing open mathematical conjecture?
By Young-Jun Lee, Seungone Kim, Minki Kang, Alistair Cheong Liang Chuen, Zerui Chen, Seungho Han, Taehee Jung, Dongyeop Kang
Evo-B&B is a new evolutionary framework that jointly evolves branching and node selection policies for Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) using large language model guidance and end-to-end SCIP solving feedback. It introduces a behavior-aware multi-island mechanism that measures policy similarity based on branching and node-selection behaviors to preserve population diversity and reduce redundant evaluations. Experiments on four standard MILP benchmarks show that Evo-B&B achieves competitive solving performance, generalizes to larger instances, and that joint evolution and behavior-aware diversity management are effective.
By Jiayu Chen, Chentong Chen, Yuhan Liu, Ye Fan, Jianyong Sun, Jialong Shi
arXiv:2605.29268v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: LLM-guided evolutionary search (Evolve systems) has reached state-of-the-art results on mathematical and combinatorial tasks, yet most existi...
By Sixue Xing, Haoyu He, Kerui Wu, Zhuo Yang, Haozheng Luo, Tianfan Fu, Aarthy Nagarajan