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