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GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
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“My understanding is that despite the fairly generalized way in which this papers claims are authored, the experiments actually render this a much narrower criticism of "GEPA" specifically, which is a particular prompt-rewriting strategy.” evidence ↗
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“My understanding is that despite the fairly generalized way in which this papers claims are authored, the experiments actually render this a much narrower criticism of "GEPA" specifically, which is a particular prompt-rewriting strategy.”
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“Hi Julian: I totally agree that vast body of literature on evolutionary optimization is relevant; in fact GEPA (arxiv.org/abs/2507.19457) and AlphaEvolve (arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131) are instances of evolutionary optimization. To me, the biggest open question…”