EvoX: Meta-Evolution for Automated Discovery
Shu Liu*, Shubham Agarwal*, Monishwaran Maheswaran, Mert Cemri, Zhifei Li, Qiuyang Mang, Ashwin Naren, Ethan Boneh, Audrey Cheng, Melissa Pan, Alexander Du, Kurt Keutzer, Alexandros Dimakis, Koushik Sen, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23413
Project Page: https://skydiscover-ai.github.io/
Repo: https://github.com/skydiscover-ai/skydiscover
AdaEvolve: Adaptive LLM Driven Zeroth-Order Optimization
Mert Cemri*, Shubham Agrawal*, Akshat Gupta, Shu Liu, Audrey Cheng, Qiuyang Mang, Ashwin Naren, Lutfi Eren Erdogan, Koushik Sen, Matei Zaharia, Alex Dimakis, Ion Stoica
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20133
Project Page: https://skydiscover-ai.github.io/
Repo: https://github.com/skydiscover-ai/skydiscover
Let the Barbarians In: How AI Can Accelerate Systems Performance Research
Audrey Cheng, Shu Liu, Melissa Pan, Zhifei Li, Shubham Agarwal, Mert Cemri, Bowen Wang, Alexander Krentsel, Tian Xia, Jongseok Park, Shuo Yang, Jeff Chen, Lakshya Agrawal, Ashwin Naren, Shulu Li, Ruiying Ma, Aditya Desai, Jiarong Xing, Koushik Sen, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica
Explores AI-driven optimization of problems via evolutionary learning.
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14806
Project Page: https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu/project/adrs/
Homomorphism Density
Ashwin Naren
An expository paper on Homomorphism Density, a subfield of extremal graph theory concerning the density of a homomorphism in a graph. Homomorphism density provides probabilistic insights on the local structures of dense graphs.
http://simonrs.com/eulercircle/irpw2024/ashwin-homdensity-paper.pdf
Isoperimetric sets of English words
Grant Blitz, Timothy Chen, Marcus Collins, Ashwin Naren, Edward Zhang, et al.
On Isoperimetric sets of english words, using the metric distances between them as a numerical measure of distance on the 3000 most used English words.
https://www.parabola.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/2024-02/vol59_no2_1.pdf
* denotes equal contribution