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Optimizing large-scale machine learning systems, such as recommendation models for global video platforms, requires navigating a massive hyperparameter search space and, more critically, designing sophisticated optimizers, architectures,…

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Self-evolution of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remains a critical challenge: pseudo-label-based methods suffer from progressive quality degradation as model predictions drift, while template-based methods are confined to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yongrui Heng , Chaoya Jiang , Han Yang , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly trained with reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR), yet real-world deployment demands models that can self-improve without labels or external judges. Existing self-improvement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yujun Zhou , Zhenwen Liang , Haolin Liu , Wenhao Yu , Kishan Panaganti , Linfeng Song , Dian Yu , Xiangliang Zhang , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

While safety-aligned large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as the cornerstone for powerful systems such as multi-agent frameworks to solve complex real-world problems, they still suffer from potential adversarial queries, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Miao Yu , Junfeng Fang , Yingjie Zhou , Xing Fan , Kun Wang , Shirui Pan , Qingsong Wen

Recent advances in LLM-guided evolutionary computation, particularly AlphaEvolve, have demonstrated remarkable success in discovering novel mathematical constructions and solving challenging optimization problems. In this article, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Alexey Kravatskiy , Valentin Khrulkov , Ivan Oseledets

Large language models (LLMs) excel at general question-answering (Q&A) but often fall short in specialized domains due to a lack of domain-specific knowledge. Commercial companies face the dual challenges of privacy protection and resource…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Shenglin Zhang , Pengtian Zhu , Minghua Ma , Jiagang Wang , Yongqian Sun , Dongwen Li , Jingyu Wang , Qianying Guo , Xiaolei Hua , Lin Zhu , Dan Pei

We study how large language models can be used to evolve inventory policies in online, non-stationary environments. Our work is motivated by recent advances in LLM-based evolutionary search, such as AlphaEvolve, which demonstrates strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chenyu Huang , Jianghao Lin , Zhengyang Tang , Bo Jiang , Ruoqing Jiang , Benyou Wang , Lai Wei

Feature Transformation (FT) is a core data-centric AI task that improves feature space quality to advance downstream predictive performance. However, discovering effective transformations remains challenging due to the large space of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xinyuan Wang , Kunpeng Liu , Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Yanjie Fu

Fine-tuning large pre-trained language models with Evol-Instruct has achieved encouraging results across a wide range of tasks. However, designing effective evolving methods for instruction evolution requires substantial human expertise.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Weihao Zeng , Can Xu , Yingxiu Zhao , Jian-Guang Lou , Weizhu Chen

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) poses a significant challenge to existing mathematical reasoning benchmarks. However, these benchmarks tend to become easier over time as LLMs can learn from the published benchmarks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shengbo Wang , Mingwei Liu , Zike Li , Anji Li , Yanlin Wang , Xin Peng , Zibin Zheng

AlphaEvolve (Novikov et al., 2025) is a generic evolutionary coding agent that combines the generative capabilities of LLMs with automated evaluation in an iterative evolutionary framework that proposes, tests, and refines algorithmic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bogdan Georgiev , Javier Gómez-Serrano , Terence Tao , Adam Zsolt Wagner

Benchmarking in continuous black-box optimisation is hindered by the limited structural diversity of existing test suites such as BBOB. We explore whether large language models embedded in an evolutionary loop can be used to design…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Urban Skvorc , Niki van Stein , Moritz Seiler , Britta Grimme , Thomas Bäck , Heike Trautmann

Despite their success in many domains, large language models (LLMs) remain under-studied in scenarios requiring optimal decision-making under uncertainty. This is crucial as many real-world applications, ranging from personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Allen Nie , Yi Su , Bo Chang , Jonathan N. Lee , Ed H. Chi , Quoc V. Le , Minmin Chen

Online ride-hailing platforms aim to deliver efficient mobility-on-demand services, often facing challenges in balancing dynamic and spatially heterogeneous supply and demand. Existing methods typically fall into two categories:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yi Zhang , Yushen Long , Yun Ni , Liping Huang , Xiaohong Wang , Jun Liu

Recent advances in LLM-guided evolutionary computation, particularly AlphaEvolve (Novikov et al., 2025; Georgiev et al., 2025), have demonstrated remarkable success in discovering novel mathematical constructions and solving challenging…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Valentin Khrulkov , Andrey Galichin , Denis Bashkirov , Dmitry Vinichenko , Oleg Travkin , Roman Alferov , Andrey Kuznetsov , Ivan Oseledets

Self-Refinement refers to a model's ability to revise its own responses to produce improved outputs. This capability can also serve as a fundamental mechanism for Self-Improvement, for example, by reconstructing datasets with refined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yongcheng Zeng , Xinyu Cui , Xuanfa Jin , Qirui Mi , Guoqing Liu , Zexu Sun , Mengyue Yang , Dong Li , Weiyu Ma , Ning Yang , Jian Zhao , Jianye Hao , Haifeng Zhang , Jun Wang

Evolutionary computation (EC), as a powerful optimization algorithm, has been applied across various domains. However, as the complexity of problems increases, the limitations of EC have become more apparent. The advent of large language…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jinyu Cai , Jinglue Xu , Jialong Li , Takuto Ymauchi , Hitoshi Iba , Kenji Tei

Reinforcement learning algorithms are defined by their learning update rules, which are typically hand-designed and fixed. We present an evolutionary framework for discovering reinforcement learning algorithms by searching directly over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Alkis Sygkounas , Amy Loutfi , Andreas Persson

We explore an evolutionary search strategy for scaling inference time compute in Large Language Models. The proposed approach, Mind Evolution, uses a language model to generate, recombine and refine candidate responses. The proposed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Kuang-Huei Lee , Ian Fischer , Yueh-Hua Wu , Dave Marwood , Shumeet Baluja , Dale Schuurmans , Xinyun Chen

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have achieved remarkable success in tackling complex combinatorial optimization problems. However, EAs often demand carefully-designed operators with the aid of domain expertise to achieve satisfactory…

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