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Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by smeagull on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:12PM (#36234978)
A thing that is also not novel. People have done search for optimisations for at least the past decade.
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Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by saiojd on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:43PM (#36235241)
Sure, but the whole point is to reduce this kind of search to RL, which is a very general framework. Their paper shows that such a generic approach can solve a very specific problem, and solve it well. But, their paper is about improving RL, not about improving sorting.
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Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by Zacharias030 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @04:30PM (#36274780)
sometimes one has to wonder how RL can be both so generic and still be qualification to publich in nature again and again and again ;)
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