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nextosyesterday at 7:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

AFAIK, it's a bit more than hyper-parameter tuning as it can also make non-parametric (structural) changes.

Non-parametric optimization is not a new idea. I guess the hype is partly because people hope it will be less brute force now.


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gwerbinyesterday at 7:57 PM

It's an LLM-powered evolutionary algorithm.

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coppsilgoldyesterday at 7:55 PM

Perhaps LLM-guided Superoptimization: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization>

I recall reading about a stochastic one years ago: <https://github.com/StanfordPL/stoke>