"You go to sleep, the agent does the science and when you wake up, you have the results."

That's not how any of this works. You're not "doing research with help" you have something generated that looks like a research report. Without the research happening. How many different ways can "AI" bros find to express "I AM TOTALLY MISSING THE POINT"?

@tante a lot of science is tweaking hyperparameters and seeing if it changed anything.

We, as humans, sunk thousands and tens of thousands of hours into algorithms that help us with the tasks I described above, to avoid having to do exhaustive grid search. Hyperband is one such algorithm, it's literally "you go to sleep, and the algorithm does science for you". I don't see the difference here

> AlphaEvolve discovered novel, provably correct algorithms that surpass state-of-the-art solutions on a spectrum of problems in mathematics and computer science, significantly expanding the scope of prior automated discovery methods (Romera-Paredes et al., 2023). Notably, AlphaEvolve developed a search algorithm that found a procedure to multiply two complex-valued matrices using scalar multiplications; offering the first improvement, after 56 years, over Strassen's algorithm in this setting. We believe AlphaEvolve and coding agents like it can have a significant impact in improving solutions of problems across many areas of science and computation.

https://sakana.ai/shinka-evolve/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131

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ShinkaEvolve: Evolving New Algorithms with LLMs, Orders of Magnitude More Efficiently