🔥 Can evolution code itself?
🔍 Can LLM design the next generation of algorithms—without us?
Join us this Sunday, August 10, for a mind-expanding talk hosted by the EvoAgentX Team, featuring Dr. Hengzhe Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow at the AI Research Center, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
🎯 Talk Title: Genetic Programming: From Evolutionary Algorithms to the LLM Era
🔍 What’s it about? (No Fluff—All Meat!)
Unearth GP’s Legacy: Trace the journey of Genetic Programming from its pioneering days as the go-to engine for auto-coding long before LLMs stole the spotlight.
Witness Evolution in Action: Discover how GP mimics Darwinian selection—mutations, crossovers, survival of the fittest—to spawn fresh, working programs.
Battle of the Titans: Go head-to-head with the fundamentals—tree-based GP versus token-by-token LLMs—unpacking their distinct program blueprints, search playbooks, and optimization hacks.
Fusion at the Frontier: Step into DeepMind’s FunSearch lab, where evolutionary rigour meets neural ingenuity, and see how this hybrid sparks a new dawn in automatic algorithm invention.
👤 About the Speaker:
Dr. Hengzhe Zhang (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=hYyeZMUAAAAJ) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington’s AI Research Center. His AutoML and program synthesis expertise has led to publications in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and ICLR. He has pioneered work on automated feature engineering, evolutionary learning algorithms, and symbolic program generation, and serves as reviewer for NeurIPS, ICLR, and AAAI.
Featured Publication: RAG-SR: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Neural Symbolic Regression, ICLR 2025
✨ Whether you’re crafting the next-generation auto-coder, pushing the boundaries of evolutionary search, or simply curious about how algorithms will invent algorithms, this talk will ignite your imagination—and challenge your assumptions!
🗓 Mark your calendar: Sunday, August 10, 16:30-17:30 (GMT+8)
Meeting Link: https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/5UuNxo7Detz0
Tencent Meeting Code：883-6084-5815
🚀Host: EvoAgentX Team
Ready to ride the evolutionary wave into the LLM era? See you there!
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