Self-modifying coding agents evolve learned optimizers from simple templates

The authors demonstrate a dual-agent system that iteratively rewrites both an optimization codebase and the agents directing its development.

Academic
Zipei Yu · Yue-Jiao Gong · Zeyuan Ma · Yuncheng Jiang · Zhiguang Cao

South China University of Technology · South China Normal University · Singapore Management Univeristy

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Yu et al.

The authors built a dual-agent framework for Meta-Black-Box Optimization, or MetaBBO, in which a learned policy controls design choices for a lower-level optimizer.

Why this paper

From South China University of Technology and 2 others

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HADA automates MetaBBO algorithm design using recursive self-improvement, outperforming human-designed baselines significantly.

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