Treating Natural Language as Genome: 8B Model Evolves Trading Policies
Amidos2006 · x · 2026-08-12
Researchers introduced ELMER (Evolutionary Language Model), a novel framework that treats natural language not just as a prompt, but as the "genome" of an evolutionary system.
In their experiments, the team trained an 8B parameter model to leverage this evolutionary mechanism to generate and iteratively refine executable trading policies. The research demonstrates the potential of LLMs in the automated exploration and iterative optimization of complex strategies.
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