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Preprint · arXiv · 10 Feb 2026 · Computer science · Not signed on Papex

ImprovEvolve: Basin-Hopping Meets LLM-Guided Evolutionary Search

Alexey Kravatskiy, Valentin Khrulkov, Ivan Oseledets

AI use, as the source states it

“For hexagon in hexagon packing, ImprovEvolve discovers new state-of-the-art packings of 11, 12, 15, and 16 hexagons, and additionally for 14, 17, and 23 hexagons after minimal expert tuning of the generated code.”

Model: ImprovEvolve, as stated

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