2 papers
cs.CL2026
Evolution or Illusion? Rethinking Evaluation in LLM Evolutionary Search
Tal Oved, Roi Pony, Oshri Naparstek +1
LLM-driven evolutionary search finds programs by launching seeds and iterating each one. Papers report a single budget setting, usually one seed run for a fixed number of iteration…
cs.LG2026
Optimize Cheap, Deploy Strong: Cost-Aware Cross-Tier Transfer for Evolutionary Optimization
Tal Oved, Roi Pony, Oshri Naparstek +1
Evolutionary optimization of LLM prompts and agentic programs (e.g., GEPA) is dominated by fitness evaluation: scoring each candidate runs an answering LLM over a validation set, s…