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  1. Discovered, Not Designed: Population Evolution for Collaborative and Compute-Intensive Model Discovery

    Oct 5, 2026Bo Peng, Lizhu Zhang, Yuhang Zhou +5Automated Algorithm DiscoveryEvolutionary Optimization

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  2. VideoEvolve: Evolving Agent Harnesses for Video Temporal Grounding

    Oct 1, 2026Bingjun Luo, Yuhuan Fan, Jialin Guo +1Temporal Video GroundingEvolutionary Optimization

    Tsinghua University · Columbia University · Harbin Engineering University

  3. LESS: Lightweight Evolutionary Supernet Search in Minutes

    Oct 1, 2026Aviral Gandhi, Jinglue Xu, Jialong Li +1Evolutionary OptimizationCovariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy

    The University of Tokyo · Sakana AI · Waseda University

  4. Self-Evolving Coding Rules for AI Coding Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Zhengyuan Jiang, Reachal Wang, Yuepeng Hu +3Evolutionary OptimizationCoding Agents

    Duke University

  5. Growing an Agent/Prover Interface: Evolutionary Tool Design for Cost-Efficient Theorem Proving in Rocq and Lean

    Sep 30, 2026Jules Viennot, Guillaume Baudart, Marc LelargeAutomated Theorem ProvingEvolutionary Optimization

    IRIF, Universit´e Paris Cit´e, Inria, CNRS · DI ENS, PSL University, Inria

  6. An Island-Based Parallel Biased Random-Key Genetic Algorithm for the Three-Dimensional Trailer Loading Problem

    Sep 30, 2026A. del Río, L. Díaz, L. C. de Vicente +2Evolutionary OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    Intelligent Systems Department Gradiant Vigo, Spain

  7. MILO: Automated Harness Discovery via Orchestrated Multi-Agent Evolution

    Sep 29, 2026Prithwish Jana, Mononito Goswami, Hao Liu +9Multi-Agent OrchestrationEvolutionary Optimization

    Georgia Institute of Technology · AWS AI Labs · Carnegie Mellon University +1

  8. HeurEvo: Agentic Evolution of Hybrid Solver-Augmented Heuristics for Time-Critical Mathematical Optimization

    Sep 28, 2026Feijie Wu, Hugo Barbalho, Konstantina Mellou +5Automated Algorithm DiscoveryAutomated Heuristic Design

    Purdue University · Microsoft Research

  9. CMDO: A Cognitive Memory-Driven Optimization Algorithm for Adaptive Population-Based Search

    Sep 28, 2026Mohammed Yusuf Mujawar, Shahram Rahimi, Noorbakhsh Amiri GolilarzEvolutionary OptimizationBlack-Box Optimization

    Department of Computer Science The University of Alabama, AL, USA

  10. EvE: An Alternate Optimizer to Adam

    Sep 28, 2026Shashank Raj, Kalyanmoy DebDeep Learning OptimizationDifferential Evolution

    Department of Computer Science The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA

  11. Towards Certificate-Driven Software Porting: A Self-Improving Agentic Harness for Scientific Program Optimization

    Sep 28, 2026Piyush Jha, Aishik Ghosh, Vijay GaneshCode TranslationGPU Kernel Optimization

    School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA · School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

  12. EvoTreeNAD: Genealogy-Guided Evolution for LLM-Driven Neural Architecture Discovery

    Sep 24, 2026Lishan Yu, Derek Jiu, Qizhen Lan +1Large Language Model-Guided NASEvolutionary Optimization

    Department of Health Data Science and AI McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

  13. An Unbounded Archive-based Transfer Strategy for Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization with a Changing Number of Objectives

    Sep 23, 2026Zhiyun Xiao, Ke Shang, Yajun Liu +3Evolutionary OptimizationMulti-Objective Evolutionary Optimization

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China · National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data System Computing Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China · Shenzhen ZTE Software Co., Ltd.

  14. Evolution or Illusion? Rethinking Evaluation in LLM Evolutionary Search

    Sep 17, 2026Tal Oved, Roi Pony, Oshri Naparstek +1Evolutionary OptimizationLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

    IBM Research

  15. Bio-Inspired Palette Evolution in Indirectly Encoded Substrates: Timescale Compatibility Shapes Activation Function Discovery

    Sep 15, 2026Romain Claret, Michael O'Neill, Paul Cotofrei +1Evolutionary OptimizationNeural Network Activation Functions

    University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland · University College Dublin, Ireland

  16. Decentralized Evolution of Hexapod Gaits with Independent Leg Controllers

    Sep 14, 2026Gary B. Parker, John Asaro, Jim O'ConnorLegged RoboticsEvolutionary Optimization

    Connecticut College, New London CT 06320-4125, USA

  17. T-GADE: Thermodynamical Generative-AI-Driven Evolution of LLM Artifacts

    Sep 14, 2026Kyoko Ogawa, Naoki MoriEvolutionary OptimizationLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

    Graduate School of Informatics, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan

  18. COBRA-Skills: Contextual Bandit-Guided Evolution for Agent Skill Optimization

    Sep 12, 2026Pingchen Lu, Xiangyi Wang, Xiang Li +6Evolutionary OptimizationLLM Agent Skill Learning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Tianjin University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +1

  19. EGGROLL, Unrolled: Understanding and Improving Low-Rank Evolution Strategies at Scale

    Sep 12, 2026Ege C. Kaya, Abolfazl HashemiEvolutionary OptimizationEvolution Strategies

    Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

  20. Threshold-Based Selection for Continuous Optimization: A Leaf-Abscission Instantiation

    Sep 11, 2026Nasser KhaliliEvolutionary OptimizationBlack-Box Optimization

    Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

  21. ESPO: Error-Structured Prompt Optimization via Diagnose, Diversify, and Stabilize

    Sep 3, 2026Lihao Liu, Peng Tang, Kunwar Yashraj Singh +1Evolutionary OptimizationLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

    AWS Agentic AI

  22. The Time Value of Evolution

    Aug 13, 2026Matthew Siper, Ahmed Khalifa, Julian TogeliusEvolutionary OptimizationPolicy Gradient Methods

    Nof1, New York University · Nof1, University of Malta

  23. Large-scale Testing Global Optimization Methods with Black-box Adversarial Attacks

    Aug 13, 2026Wojciech Zarzecki, Jarosław ArabasEvolutionary OptimizationBenchmark Design

    Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Computer Science

  24. ε\varepsilon-MemEvo: Adaptive Cross-Task Memory Transfer for LLM Program Evolution

    Aug 12, 2026Aofan Liu, Shiyuan Song, Yiyan QiEvolutionary OptimizationLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

  25. EvoMem: Memory-Augmented Evolution for Code Optimization

    Aug 11, 2026Viktor Volkov, Valentin Khrulkov, Andrey V. Galichin +8Memory-Augmented Language ModelsEvolutionary Optimization

    AXXX, Moscow, Russia · Applied AI Institute, Moscow, Russia · Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

  26. Optimize Cheap, Deploy Strong: Cost-Aware Cross-Tier Transfer for Evolutionary Optimization

    Aug 11, 2026Tal Oved, Roi Pony, Oshri Naparstek +1Evolutionary OptimizationLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

    IBM Research

  27. A Graph Neural Network--Guided Genetic Algorithm for Physical Internet Supply Chain Optimization under Cost Uncertainty

    Aug 10, 2026Faezeh Ardali, Gerald M. KnappGraph Neural NetworksEvolutionary Optimization

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

  28. ArchAgent v2: A Case Study with the Data Prefetching Championship

    Aug 10, 2026Abraham Gonzalez, Raghav Gupta, Akanksha Jain +12Automated Algorithm DiscoveryAutomated Heuristic Design

    Google · University of California, Berkeley · Google DeepMind

  29. Identifying potentiating events in evolutionary search using replay experiments

    Aug 10, 2026Austin J. Ferguson, Alexander LalejiniEvolutionary Optimization

    Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA

  30. Evolving Parallel Algorithm Portfolios via Potential-Aware Instance Generation with LLMs

    Aug 7, 2026Shaofeng Zhang, Shengcai Liu, Zhiyuan Wang +1Evolutionary OptimizationLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Computation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing 100094, China

  31. LyEvO: Lyapunov-Guided Evolutionary Optimization for Safe and Robust Sim-to-Real Policy Learning

    Aug 6, 2026Riccardo Curcio, Hongpeng Cao, Marco CaccamoRobot Policy LearningEvolutionary Optimization

    Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, via Salaria 113, 00198 Rome, Italy · School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85748 Garching b. München, Germany

  32. MicroEvo: Knowledge-Guided LLM Sampling for Efficient Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration

    Aug 6, 2026Jia Xiong, Runkai Li, Chenxu Niu +11Evolutionary OptimizationMulti-Objective Evolutionary Optimization

    Southeast University · National Center of Technology Innovation for EDA · NVIDIA Corporation +4

  33. Relay, Don't Route: Adaptive Population Handoff for Cost-Efficient LLM-Driven Evolution

    Aug 6, 2026Sichun Luo, Yi Huang, Guanzhi Deng +6Multi-Fidelity OptimizationEvolutionary Optimization

    1The University of Hong Kong · 2JIUTIAN Research, China Mobile · 3City University of Hong Kong +1

  34. HPSO: Particle Swarm Optimization with Hypergraph-Based Topology

    Aug 5, 2026Wenbin Pei, Xi Luo, Bing Xue +2Evolutionary OptimizationParticle Swarm Optimization

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China · Key Laboratory of Social Computing and Cognitive Intelligence (Dalian University of Technology), Ministry of Education, China · Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence & School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand +1

  35. MuEvo: LLM-Driven Evolution of Multi-Heuristic Ensemble

    Aug 4, 2026Haoze Lv, Ning Lu, Shengcai Liu +2Automated Heuristic DesignEvolutionary Optimization

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Computation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  36. Cooperative Coevolution for Resource-Constrained Agentic LLM Post-Training

    Aug 3, 2026Zhiyuan Wang, Shengcai Liu, Jiahao Wu +5Evolutionary OptimizationEvolution Strategies

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Intelligent Computation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +2

  37. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Co-Evolving Search for Cross-Task Attacks on Vision-Language Models

    Aug 3, 2026Xuanhui Lin, Junhao Dong, Mingrong Gong +3VLM RobustnessAdversarial Attacks on VLMs

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  38. Towards Autonomous Formulaic Alpha Discovery: An Evolutionary Computation Perspective

    Aug 3, 2026Xinwei Yu, Yiyang Fu, Mingcheng Fan +3Automated Algorithm DiscoveryEvolutionary Optimization

    Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China · Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

  39. An Evolutionary Algorithm Assisted by an Ensemble of Pareto-Optimal Surrogate Models

    Aug 3, 2026Kei Nishihara, Yaochu Jin, Masaya NakataSurrogate ModelingSurrogate-Assisted Optimization

    Organization for the Promotion of Education, Yokohama National University, Yokohama 2408501, Japan · School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, China · Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama 2408501, Japan

  40. Linear Proposal Operators and Stochastic Search Geometry in SOMA and Differential Evolution

    Jul 31, 2026Vojtěch Novák, Ivan ZelinkaDifferential EvolutionEvolutionary Optimization

    Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic · IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, 708 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic · Department of Informatics and Statistics, Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University, Lithuania

  41. DarwinX: Evolving Agent Harnesses Through Natural Selection

    Jul 31, 2026Yifan Zhang, Yutong Dai, Juntao Tan +9Evolutionary OptimizationAgent Harness Optimization

    1Salesforce AI Research · 2Salesforce Agentforce

  42. Frontis-MA1: Training an AI4AI Model towards Recursive Self-Improvement in Machine Learning Engineering

    Jul 30, 2026Junlin Yang, Che Jiang, Yu Fu +21Evolutionary OptimizationSelf-Improving Agents

    Horizon Research, Frontis.AI

  43. LLM-Guided Evolutionary Search for Constraint Model Reformulation to Improve Solver Efficiency

    Jul 30, 2026Kostis Michailidis, Dimos Tsouros, Nguyen Dang +1Automated Heuristic DesignEvolutionary Optimization

    1DTAI, KU Leuven, Belgium · University of Western Macedonia, Greece · University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

  44. SCOPE: Synthetic Conditional Objectives for Policy Evolution in Black-Box Combinatorial Optimization

    Jul 30, 2026Nguyen Viet Tuan Kiet, Nguyen Huu Duc, Le Cong Bang +2Surrogate-Assisted OptimizationEvolutionary Optimization

    1Hanoi University of Science and Techonology, Hanoi, Vietnam · University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  45. Multi-Objective Compliance-Integrated Coevolution For Simulated And Real-World Deployment Of Multi-Robot Marine Autonomy

    Jul 28, 2026Everardo Gonzalez, Tyler M. Paine, Manuel Agraz Vallejo +3Evolutionary OptimizationMulti-Objective Evolutionary Optimization

    Collaborative Robotics And Intelligent Systems Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA · MIT Marine Autonomy Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

  46. Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Neighborhood Search for Arrival-Departure Track Utilization Adjustment under Short-Term Disturbances

    Jul 27, 2026Xiaobin Li, Wuming Lei, Yanbin Gao +1Evolutionary OptimizationIntelligent Transportation Systems

    School of Transportation Engineering East China Jiaotong University Nanchang, Jiangxi 330038, China

  47. Adaptive Graph-of-Islands Evolution for Automatic Feature Engineering with LLMs

    Jul 25, 2026Sha Li, Naren RamakrishnanEvolutionary OptimizationLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

    Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24060 · Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Alexandria, VA 22305

  48. Sensitivity of hMPA to Controlled CEC 2017 Transformations

    Jul 24, 2026Grzegorz Sroka, Sławomir T. WierzchońEvolutionary Optimization

    Department of Analysis Nonlinear, Rzeszów University of Technology, Powstańców Warszawy 12, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland · Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Jana Kazimierza 5, 01-248 Warsaw, Poland

  49. Automated Discovery Has No Universally Superior Harness

    Jul 20, 2026Akshat Gupta, Jermaine Lei, Alexander Lu +2Automated Algorithm DiscoveryAutomated Heuristic Design

    UC Berkeley · MIT, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

  50. Hybrid Augmented Lagrangian Method for General Constrained Optimization via Evolutionary Algorithms

    Jul 18, 2026Lampros Printzios, Konstantinos ChatzilygeroudisEvolutionary OptimizationAugmented Lagrangian Method

    Laboratory of Automation & Robotics (LAR), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras, University Campus, Patras, GR-26504, Achaia, Greece

  51. Evolving Self-Organising Agents Without Fitness: Three Falsifiable Experiments from Constraint-Driven Selection to Developmental Encoding

    Jul 18, 2026Anushka SharmaArtificial LifeEvolutionary Optimization

    Banasthali Vidyapith Vanasthali, Rajasthan, India

  52. Evolutionary Algorithm-Guided LLMs for Physics-Informed Neural Network Design

    Jul 17, 2026Xu Yang, Mingyang Yu, Jing Xu +1Neural PDE SolversEvolutionary Optimization

    Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China · College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

  53. Confidence-based Ranking with Adaptive Sampling for Noisy Black-Box Optimisation

    Jul 16, 2026Enrico Halim, Hemant Kumar Singh, Tapabrata RayEvolutionary OptimizationBlack-Box Optimization

    The University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia

  54. S-CARD-CMSA: A Score-Aware Candidate Archive with Density-Filtered Reporting for Multimodal Optimization

    Jul 15, 2026Dikshit ChauhanEvolutionary OptimizationMultimodal Optimization

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore

  55. Hybrid multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for service placement in the computing continuum: a comparative study with genetic traceability

    Jul 14, 2026Sergi Vivo, Carlos Guerrero, Isaac LeraEvolutionary OptimizationMulti-Objective Evolutionary Optimization

    Computer Science Department, University of the Balearic Islands, Crta. Valldemossa km 7.5, Palma, E07122, Illes Balears, Spain.

  56. A new dual-population constrained multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm with repair constraint handling for structural optimization

    Jul 14, 2026Fardad Homafar, Jasmin JelovicaEvolutionary OptimizationMulti-Objective Evolutionary Optimization

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia, 6250 Applied Science Ln, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, Canada · Department of Civil Engineering, The University of British Columbia, 6250 Applied Science Ln, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, Canada

  57. RefineEvo: Planning-Guided Heuristic Evolution with Bidirectional Experience

    Jul 13, 2026Yang Wu, Junran Pan, Yifan Zhang +3Automated Heuristic DesignEvolutionary Optimization

    C2DL, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing +1

  58. Evolutionary Intelligence for Scientific Discovery: From Evolutionary Computation to Cumulative Discovery Systems

    Jul 10, 2026Chao Wang, Lingling Li, Fang Liu +1Evolutionary OptimizationScientific Discovery

    1*School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, No. 2 South Taibai Road, Xi’an, 710071, Shaanxi, China.

  59. LLM-Driven Evolutionary Generation of Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Algorithms

    Jul 6, 2026Georgios Laskaris, Reuben Brasher, Niki van Stein +3Automated Algorithm DiscoveryEvolutionary Optimization

    Terra Quantum AG, Kornhausstrasse 25, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland · LIACS, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

  60. Dictionaries, Not Darwin: Set-Level Selection Beats LLM Evolution in Scientific Equation Discovery

    Jul 5, 2026Pan LiEvolutionary OptimizationScientific Discovery

    Independent Researcher