On: Evolution Through Large Models

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Author here -- some fun videos from the paper:

A gallery of evolved robots: https://y2u.be/QNyNtvwA9FI

An evolutionary lineage from an initial (barely-functional) seed to a final robot: https://y2u.be/M9pAJuX6dyM

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You may be interested in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09352 As far as I know it was the first to train a model on commit diffs to generate code mutations, in this case for bug fixing.