Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement via Prompt Evolution

A conference paper on Promptbreeder, self-referential self-improvement through prompt evolution. The companion cites it for the point that in agent lineages variation comes from the lineage's own machine reasoning, which can itself be copied and improved. This is the decisive difference behind sighted variation (P4).

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion §6.1)

Used for

P4P4

Strand

Artificial life & machine evolution · Self-improving AI & machine heredity

Cite

@inproceedings{fernando2023promptbreeder,
  title = {Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement via Prompt Evolution},
  author = {Chrisantha Fernando and Dylan Sunil Banarse and Henryk Michalewski and Simon Osindero and Tim Rocktäschel},
  year = {2024},
  howpublished = {Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024)},
  url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/fernando24a.html},
}