PACE: Primitive-Aware Code Evolution for Automated Algorithm Design
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arXiv:2608.07395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based automated algorithm design typically evolves algorithms as complete, indivisible programs. While this whole-program perspective simplifies the search space, it fundamentally couples the useful local logic to its host program. Consequently, valuable code snippets vanish when the overall program is discarded, making it highly difficult to assess the contribution of individual algorithmic components.To address this, we propose Primitive-Aware Code Evolution (PACE), which decouples local logic from complete programs
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.07395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based automated algorithm design typically evolves algorithms as complete, indivisible programs.
- While this whole-program perspective simplifies the search space, it fundamentally couples the useful local logic to its host program.
- Consequently, valuable code snippets vanish when the overall program is discarded, making it highly difficult to assess the contribution of individual algorithmic components.To address this, we propose Primitive-Aware Code Evolution (PACE), which decouples local logic from complete programs
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