

AIDDA 2026 Conference
AIDDA 2026 is a two-day virtual technical conference focused on AI-driven algorithm discovery.
The event brings together researchers and builders working on LLM-guided evolutionary systems, automated algorithm design, test-time discovery, coding agents, verifiers, benchmarks, and autonomous science systems.
Day 1
Ori Press — AlgoTune
Henrique Assumpção — CodeEvolve
Qingfu Zhang — LLM4AD
Robert Lange — Sakana AI
Asankhaya Sharma — OpenEvolve
Panel discussion
Day 2
Federico Bianchi — TTT-Discover
Shu Liu, Mert Cemri, and Shubham Agarwal — SkyDiscover
Elliot Cowen — Autoscience
Kerry He — Hiverge
Alex Goldie — DiscoGen
Panel discussion
Live automated experiment:
During the event, we will run a live automated discovery experiment in the background. Participants are invited to join an optimization swarm aimed at discovering new algorithms for operations research problems.