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AlphaEvolve’s Breakthrough on Math after 56 years
Google once again did the impossible. Their new paper, AlphaEvolve, invented some new math. Think about it—how crazy is that? Google is no stranger to innovation, and this new paper is of the same order as the AlphaGo and AlphaFold papers, where they taught AI to play the GO game and synthesize new protein structures, respectively.
In short, AlphaEvolve is an evolutionary coding agent powered by large language models for general-purpose algorithm discovery and optimization. AlphaEvolve pairs the creative problem-solving capabilities of our Gemini models with automated evaluators that verify answers and use an evolutionary framework to improve upon the most promising ideas.
Table Of Contents
- Reasoning and Planning In AI
- LLM-Modulo Framework
- Understanding Matrix Multiplication Optimization
- AlphaEvolve Breakthrough
- Finding New Maths (Results)
Reasoning and Planning In AI
To understand AlphaEvolve’s breakthrough, we need to understand a little bit about planning and reasoning. LLMs are quite powerful on their own, but they still struggle a lot when it comes to problems that require a very specific solution. Giving the correct answer…
