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SpecEvo pairs cheap and frontier models for scientific discovery, cutting API cost by up to 80%
Posted on arXiv on Oct 22, 2026 (source: arxiv.org).
The paper introduces SpecEvo, where lightweight models generate and refine candidate programs and a frontier model steps in only at checkpoints. Across 176 tasks in four domains, the authors report it matches or beats frontier-model baselines while cutting API cost by up to 80%. The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed.
Source: arXiv cs.AI
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