SpecEvo: Speculative Evolution with Large Language Models for Cost-Efficient Scientific Discovery

arXiv cs.AIOctober 22, 2026en

arXiv:2610.28706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-driven evolutionary search is a promising paradigm for scientific discovery, but existing methods remain costly and slow, often applying expensive reasoning uniformly while underusing evidence from failed, redundant, and saturated trials. We introduce Speculative Evolution (SpecEvo), a multi-LLM framework that coordinates lightweight and frontier models through continual consolidation of search evidence. Lightweight models power both parallel Speculators, which generate and refine candidate programs, and an Advisor, which distills accumulated successes, failures, and saturated directions into persistent guidance for subsequent exploration.

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