Comment by simianwords
7 months ago
I'm surprised I'm not able to find this out - can some one tell me whether AlphaEvolve involves backprop or not?
I honestly have no idea how AlphaEvolve works - does it work purely on the text level? Meaning I might be able to come up with something like AlphaEvolve with some EC2's and a Gemini API access?
No, the program and prompt databases use a genetic algorithm.
So with just a server an Gemini access + their code I can achieve the same thing? Nice
Yes, but I don't think that their code is accessible. And the whitepaper is light on details.