FYI:AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery

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May 21, 2025, 4:51:57 AM5/21/25

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https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/AlphaEvolve.pdf

p.21 "The main limitation of AlphaEvolve is that it handles problems for which it is possible to devise an automated evaluator. While this is true of many problems in the mathematical and computational sciences, there are domains such as the natural sciences where only some experiments can be simulated or automated. While AlphaEvolve does allow for LLM-provided evaluation of ideas, this is not a setting we have optimized for. However, concurrent work shows this is possible [ 33], and a natural step would be to link the two settings, with LLMs providing feedback on high-level ideas before transitioning to an implementation stage, for which machine feedback is available through code execution."

"automated evaluator" appears to be a turning point for the use of LLM in IT systems.