populora 0.0.8

Implementation of PopuLoRA

PopuLoRA (wip)

Implementation and explorations into PopuLoRA, Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self-Play, from Roger Castanyer et al at vmax.ai

Citations

@misc{castanyer2026populoracoevolvingllmpopulations,
    title   = {PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self-Play},
    author  = {Roger Creus Castanyer and Geoffrey Bradway and Lorenz Wolf and Maxwill Lin and Augustine N. Mavor-Parker and Matthew James Sargent},
    year    = {2026},
    eprint  = {2605.16727},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    primaryClass = {cs.AI},
    url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16727},
}

@misc{schmidhuber2012powerplaytrainingincreasinglygeneral,
    title    = {POWERPLAY: Training an Increasingly General Problem Solver by Continually Searching for the Simplest Still Unsolvable Problem},
    author   = {Jürgen Schmidhuber},
    year     = {2012},
    eprint   = {1112.5309},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    primaryClass = {cs.AI},
    url      = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5309},
}

@misc{bahlousboldi2026vectorpolicyoptimizationtraining,
    title   = {Vector Policy Optimization: Training for Diversity Improves Test-Time Search},
    author  = {Ryan Bahlous-Boldi and Isha Puri and Idan Shenfeld and Akarsh Kumar and Mehul Damani and Sebastian Risi and Omar Khattab and Zhang-Wei Hong and Pulkit Agrawal},
    year    = {2026},
    eprint  = {2605.22817},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    primaryClass = {cs.LG},
    url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22817},
}

@misc{bailey2026scalingselfplayselfguidance,
    title   = {Scaling Self-Play with Self-Guidance},
    author  = {Luke Bailey and Kaiyue Wen and Kefan Dong and Tatsunori Hashimoto and Tengyu Ma},
    year    = {2026},
    eprint  = {2604.20209},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    primaryClass = {cs.LG},
    url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20209},
}