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ShinkaEvolve

An open-source framework for LLM-driven evolutionary program discovery (Robert Tjarko Lange, Yuki Imajuku, Edoardo Cetin; Sakana AI, 2025). It uses frontier models as mutation operators in an evolutionary loop, combining a parent-sampling strategy, rejection-sampling for code novelty, and bandit-routing across an ensemble of models.

Training2025Wave 3 · 2025–26Maturity: 3/5

Maturity rationale

Sakana AI Lange paper with replication interest

References

Author: Sakana AI