activity
20232025
most citedLarge Language Models As Evolution Strategies

5 citations · 9 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

7 papers

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Towards Robust Agentic CUDA Kernel Benchmarking, Verification, and Optimization

Robert Tjarko Lange, Qi Sun, Aaditya Prasad +3

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) demonstrate their effectiveness in scaling test-time compute for software engineering tasks. However, these approaches often focus o…

cs.AI2025

Competition and Attraction Improve Model Fusion

João Abrantes, Robert Tjarko Lange, Yujin Tang

Model merging is a powerful technique for integrating the specialized knowledge of multiple machine learning models into a single model. However, existing methods require manually…

cs.NE2025★ 1 cited

Discovering Quality-Diversity Algorithms via Meta-Black-Box Optimization

Maxence Faldor, Robert Tjarko Lange, Antoine Cully

Quality-Diversity has emerged as a powerful family of evolutionary algorithms that generate diverse populations of high-performing solutions by implementing local competition princ…

cs.LG2024

Position: Leverage Foundational Models for Black-Box Optimization

Xingyou Song, Yingtao Tian, Robert Tjarko Lange +3

Undeniably, Large Language Models (LLMs) have stirred an extraordinary wave of innovation in the machine learning research domain, resulting in substantial impact across diverse fi…

cs.AI2024

Evolution Transformer: In-Context Evolutionary Optimization

Robert Tjarko Lange, Yingtao Tian, Yujin Tang

Evolutionary optimization algorithms are often derived from loose biological analogies and struggle to leverage information obtained during the sequential course of optimization. A…

cs.AI2024★ 5 cited

Large Language Models As Evolution Strategies

Robert Tjarko Lange, Yingtao Tian, Yujin Tang

Large Transformer models are capable of implementing a plethora of so-called in-context learning algorithms. These include gradient descent, classification, sequence completion, tr…

cs.NE2023★ 2 cited

NeuroEvoBench: Benchmarking Evolutionary Optimizers for Deep Learning Applications

Robert Tjarko Lange, Yujin Tang, Yingtao Tian

Recently, the Deep Learning community has become interested in evolutionary optimization (EO) as a means to address hard optimization problems, e.g. meta-learning through long inne…