Submitted: 10 October 2026 You are already at the latest version Large Language Model-guided Evolutionary Search (LLM-ES), exemplified by AlphaEvolve, has recently demonstrated impressive performance in solving goal-driven problems with extremely large and complex search spaces. Unlike conventional LLM approaches based on single-shot or few-shot sampling, LLM-ES introduces population-based evolution to iteratively generate more novel and higher-quality solutions.