Random Search
Uniformly sample a parent and context from the full candidate history.
"""Random Search — the plain keep-all loop with uniform-random selection instead of greedy elitism.
A deliberately small community baseline. One module per component (mirroring the Galapagos scaffold
layout), and every module is self-contained in this package — Random search does not borrow another
scaffold's classes:
population.py -> RandomPopulation (uncapped keep-all leaderboard)
selection_policy.py -> RandomSelectionPolicy (uniform-random parent + inspirations)
prompt_builder.py -> RandomPromptBuilder (the default multi-section template)
proposer.py -> RandomProposer (SEARCH/REPLACE diff)
evaluator.py -> RandomEvaluator (task-supplied)
memory.py -> RandomMemory (none)
scaffold.py -> RandomScaffold (the orchestrator that composes the six)
The only behavioral change from a greedy Top-K baseline is *selection*: every iteration samples a
parent uniformly from the full candidate history and draws distinct random inspirations. Everything
else — keep-all population, default prompt, SEARCH/REPLACE diff, null memory — is held identical, so
that random vs. elitist selection is the single independent variable. That is what makes this a clean
exploration-oriented comparison point for adaptive search.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from ...config import GalapagosConfig
from ...models import GalapagosModel
from ..base_scaffold import GalapagosScaffold
from ..registry import register_scaffold
# one module per component — all self-contained in this package
from .memory import RandomMemory
from .population import RandomPopulation
from .prompt_builder import RandomPromptBuilder
from .proposer import RandomProposer
from .selection_policy import RandomSelectionPolicy
@register_scaffold("random")
class RandomScaffold(GalapagosScaffold):
"""The plain loop with uniform-random selection instead of elitism."""
name = "random"
@classmethod
def build_components(cls, config: GalapagosConfig, model: GalapagosModel | None) -> dict:
return {
"population": RandomPopulation(capacity=config.population.capacity),
"selection_policy": RandomSelectionPolicy(
seed=int(config.seed),
num_inspirations=int(config.selection_policy.num_inspirations),
),
"prompt_builder": RandomPromptBuilder(),
"proposer": RandomProposer(),
"memory": RandomMemory(),
}