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[P] Karpathy's autoresearch with evolutionary database.

Reddit r/MachineLearning / 3/15/2026

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  • The article reports integrating an evolutionary database into Karpathy's autoresearch project, replacing the original TSV-based logging system.
  • It situates the approach within evolutionary algorithms that autonomously discover optimal solutions in large search spaces, citing AlphaEvolve and OpenEvolve as inspirations.
  • The update aims to enhance scalable experimentation within autoresearch and invites community feedback and collaboration.
  • The project and update are shared via GitHub at https://github.com/hgarud/autoresearch and discussed in a Reddit post.

Integrated an evolutionary database to Karpathy's autoresearch project that replaces the simple tsv file based logging in the original project.

Evolutionary algorithms have shown to be a powerful tool for autonomously discovering optimal solutions to problems with large search spaces. Famously, Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve system uses evolutionary algorithms to discover state of the art matrix multiplication algorithms. The implementation of the evolutionary database itself is based heavily on the implementation in OpenEvolve.

Would love thoughts and suggestions from the community.

Check it out: https://github.com/hgarud/autoresearch

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