From the 1 of 2 linked papers with an AI index.
2 papers
cs.AI2026
Beyond the Best Guess: Improving LLM Solution Coverage with Evolution Strategies
Conor F. Hayes, Elliot Meyerson, Kajetan Schweighofer +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in discovery domains such as math and science. The usual approach is to present the problem to the model and use its answer a…
cs.LG2026
Evolution Strategies at Scale: LLM Fine-Tuning Beyond Reinforcement Learning
Xin Qiu, Yulu Gan, Conor F. Hayes +6
The paper shows that evolution strategies can successfully fine‑tune billion‑parameter large language models without backpropagation, outperforming reinforcement learning in stabil…