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Evolutionary Wave Function Collapse

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arXiv:2607. 02082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wave Function Collapse (WFC) is a widely used procedural content generation method that learns local adjacency constraints from example inputs to generate larger outputs.

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arXiv AI
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CreativeBench: Benchmarking and Enhancing Machine Creativity via Self-Evolving Challenges

arXiv:2603. 11863v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The saturation of high-quality pre-training data has shifted research focus toward evolutionary systems capable of continuously generating novel artifacts, leading to the success of AlphaEvolve.

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EvoTreeNAD: Genealogy-Guided Evolution for LLM-Driven Neural Architecture Discovery

EvoTreeNAD is a genealogy‑guided evolutionary algorithm that autonomously discovers neural architectures without a predefined seed or search space. Starting from an empty root, it builds a persistent genealogy where each node represents a complete architecture; top‑percentile values from nodes and descendants steer lineage selection. The method combines an Idea Agent that proposes variants and a Code Agent that implements them, with theoretical analysis showing stationary variation regimes and empirical results demonstrating superior performance on CIFAR‑10/100 and MedMNIST‑v2 tasks.

By Lishan Yu, Derek Jiu, Qizhen Lan, Xiaoqian Jiang
arXiv AI
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An Evolutionary Framework for Automatic Optimization Benchmark Generation via Large Language Models

The paper introduces LLM-EBG, an evolutionary framework that uses a large language model as a generative operator to automatically create optimization benchmarks. By generating unconstrained single-objective continuous minimization problems expressed as mathematical formulas, the framework can produce benchmarks that consistently favor a target algorithm over a comparison algorithm in over 80% of trials. Landscape analysis shows that these generated problems exhibit distinct geometric traits, such as sensitivity to variable scaling, reflecting the search behaviors of different optimization methods.

By Yuhiro Ono, Tomohiro Harada, Yukiya Miura
arXiv AI
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Procedural Content Metageneration via Program Search and Continual Abstraction Discovery

The paper demonstrates that large language models can generate executable procedural content generators, enabling direct search over generator programs rather than individual levels. Using Sokoban, Zelda, Dangerous Dave, and Lode Runner, the authors evolve complete Python generators via language‑model mutation and crossover, and introduce Continual Abstraction Discovery (CAD) to extract reusable primitives into a run‑specific helper module. Experiments show that CAD consistently improves mean final best fitness across all domain and API comparisons, with learned libraries being adopted by subsequent programs and repeatedly rediscovering useful utilities.

By Matthew Siper, Ahmed Khalifa, Julian Togelius