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AlphaCode 2

Google DeepMind · 6 December 2023

Gemini-based competitive-programming system performing better than 85% of Codeforces participants, up from nearly 50% for AlphaCode.

Generates a large pool of candidate programs from Gemini-tuned models, then filters and ranks them. Shows heavy sampling plus verification lifts competitive programming from the median competitor to the top 15%.

Date
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
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Google DeepMind
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MeasureValueMeasured by
Codeforces participants outperformed>85%
AlphaCode (2022) at nearly 50%
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Tech report PDF could not be text-extracted; the 85% figure is from the Gemini launch post.

Sources

  1. blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/
  2. storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/AlphaCode2/AlphaCode2_Tech_Report.pdf

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