PACE: Primitive-Aware Code Evolution for Automated Algorithm Design

Large Language Model (LLM)-based automated algorithm design typically evolves algorithms as complete, indivisible programs. While this whole-program perspective simplifies the search space, it fundamentally couples the useful local logic to its host program. Consequently, valuable code snippets vanish when the overall program is discarded, making it highly difficult to assess the contribution of individual algorithmic components.To address this, we propose Primitive-Aware Code Evolution (PACE), which decouples local logic from complete programs by representing it as persistent units called Executable Algorithmic Primitives (EAPs). To enable code-level transfer, PACE maintains a dynamic set of EAPs. Algorithm evolution is driven by primitive-aware operators that structurally guarantee the retention and cross-program transfer of these components. To evaluate them effectively, PACE leverages Thompson sampling based on parent-relative performance improvements, guiding primitive selection from the set without requiring extra evaluation datasets. Experiments on four tasks demonstrate that PACE effectively discovers competitive algorithms while structurally preserving valuable algorithmic components.

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Relation Extraction via Representation Learning and Domain Adaptation

Cross-domain few-shot relation extraction poses a great challenge for the existing few-shot learning methods and domain adaptation methods when the source domain and target domain have large discrepancies. This paper proposes a method by combining the idea of few-shot learning and domain adaptation to deal with this problem. In the proposed method, an encoder, learned by optimizing a representation loss and an adversarial loss, is used to extract the relation of sentences in the source and target domain. The representation loss, including a cross-entropy loss and a contrastive loss, makes the encoder extract the relation of the source domain and keep the geometric structure of the classes in the source domain. And the adversarial loss is used to merge the source domain and target domain. The experimental results on the benchmark FewRel dataset demonstrate that the proposed method can outperform some state-of-the-art methods.