Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that designs and optimizes advanced algorithms
AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
AlphaEvolve verifies, runs and scores the proposed programs using automated evaluation metrics. These metrics provide an objective, quantifiable assessment of each solution’s accuracy and quality.
Yeah, that’s the way genetic algorithms have worked for decades. Have they figured out a way to turn those evaluation metrics directly into code improvements, or do they just keep doing a bunch of rounds of trial and error?
The general framework for evolutionary methods/genetic algorithms is indeed old but it's extremely broad. What matters is how you actually mutate the algorithm being run given feedback. In this case, they're using the same framework as genetic algorithms (iteratively building up solutions by repeatedly modifying an existing attempt after receiving feedback) but they use an LLM for two things:
The "Related Work" (section 5) section of their whitepaper is probably what you're looking for, see here.
We gotta use up as much fresh water for cooling as we can. 🤷♂️
Can't wait for my boss to come up with half a working solution with this and expect me to fix/finish it!
