Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Evolution strategies were once seen as too inefficient for modern deep learning, but new LLM fine-tuning research has found a way to bring it back from the museum. This video explains how scalable evolutionary strategies could be for LLMs, and its latest developments.

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[OpenAI paper] arxiv.org/abs/1703.03864
[Evolution Strategies at Scale] arxiv.org/abs/2509.24372
[EGGROLL] arxiv.org/abs/2511.16652



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