Comment by cpard

All the *Evolve publications have very impressive results but from the time I’ve spent on the information published I feel that the attention goes to the LLMs and the AI side of things, although the outcomes reported are in almost all cases the result of very well designed environments for both the LLM and the evolutionary algorithm to work well.

This paper here is a great example of that and it’s worth a reading.

Magellan: Autonomous Discovery of Novel Compiler Optimization Heuristics with AlphaEvolve https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21096