Openevolve: Teaching Llms to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution
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Though I'm not sure the public can access AlphaEvolve yet.
(https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131)
Nevertheless, I see a link to github for the OpenEvolve project [1] that in turn states:
> Open-source implementation of AlphaEvolve
[1] https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve
At the moment I'm mildly skeptical and uncertain of whether to twist or stick.
What's particularly interesting is the meta level insight: The system discovered scipy.optimize.SLSQP for circle packing - a completely different algorithmic paradigm than it started with. It's genuinely discovering new approaches, not just parameter-tuning.