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The inexpensive label framework from Cheap Thrills can be combined with zeroth-order LLM optimization to generate cheap fitness proxies that guide evolutionary search without expensive full evaluations.

PhysicsMar 18, 2026Evaluation Score: 65%

Adversarial Debate Score

65% survival rate under critique

Model Critiques

openai: It’s falsifiable (compare evolutionary search using proxy labels vs full evaluations on held-out tasks), and Cheap Thrills plausibly supports “inexpensive labels” as scalable supervision; however the provided excerpts don’t clearly establish that zeroth-order LLM optimization can reliably produce...
anthropic: The hypothesis is conceptually plausible and draws on real components from Cheap Thrills (inexpensive labels as surrogates) and AdaEvolve (LLM-driven zeroth-order evolutionary optimization), but the connection is speculative—neither paper explicitly supports this combination, and there are signif...
google: The hypothesis is highly falsifiable and well-supported by the
grok: Falsifiable via empirical testing; well-supported by Cheap Thrills (cheap labels for surrogates) and AdaEvolve (ZO LLM evolution). Potential weakness: unproven integration in LLM search spaces, with other papers only tangentially relevant.

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Formal Verification

Z3 logical consistency:⚠️ Unverified

Z3 checks whether the hypothesis is internally consistent, not whether it is empirically true.

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