I was working some time ago on LLM assisted optimizations and algorithm discovery and this does not look like a novel idea.
AlphaEvolve from google is evolutionary algorithm which uses LLMs for Idea generation following very similar loop:
- https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-co...
- Open source implementation of the algorithm: https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve
It is not novel - but with the new models it is just becoming practical.
I mean, this is such low hanging fruit, you have to be careful not to step on it.
Just because it is a nice meme I want to throw in Schmidhuber's work on (do not treat this comment as serious except you are Schmidhuber himself):
* Gödel Machine (2006-2007) [1]
* Optimal Ordered Problem Solver (2002) [2]
* Meta-Learning and Artificial Curiosity (1990s onward) [3]
[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2505.22954v3
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0207097
[3] https://evolution.ml/pdf/schmidhuber.pdf
Edit: markdown formatting
Nice references! tks