arXiv:2606. 05646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have enabled powerful software engineering (SE) agents capable of navigating complex codebases and resolving real-world issues.
By Xuehang Guo, Zora Zhiruo Wang, Qingyun Wang, Graham Neubig, Xingyao Wang
arXiv:2608. 06301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs are increasingly deployed within agentic systems, their capabilities depend not only on the model weights but also on the harness: the prompts, tools, control flow, memory, and orchestration code surrounding them.
By Varun Ursekar, Apaar Shanker, Yash Maurya, Shehab Yasser, Vijay S. Kalmath, Veronica Chatrath, Yuan Xue
arXiv:2608. 12564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating empirical research is a long-standing direction of AI.
By Xiyuan Yang, Sheikh Sarwar, Jingru Cheng, Zhan Shi, Duanshun Li, Huiyuan Chen, Haiyang Zhang, Chenlei Guo, Jingrui He, Zhenyu Liao
arXiv:2606. 19787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents for multi-step tasks in executable environments, yet their ability to perform realistic operations research (OR) work remains unclear.
By Jiajun Li, Mingshu Cai, Yixuan Li, Yu Ding, Ran Hou, Guanyu Nie, Xiongwei Han, Wanyuan Wang
arXiv:2605. 25246v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for optimization modeling and solver-code generation, yet practical operations research and optimization problems often require a harder capability: designing scalable algorithms that exploit problem structure and outperform direct formulation-and-solve baselines.
By Minwei Kong, Chonghe Jiang, Ao Qu, Wenbin Ouyang, Zhaoming Zeng, Xiaotong Guo, Zhekai Li, Junyi Li, Yi Fan, Xinshou Zheng, Xi Jing, Yikai Zhang, Zhiwei Liang, Seonghoo Kim, Runqing Yang, Zijian Zhou, Sirui Li, Han Zheng, Wangyang Ying, Ou Zheng, Chonghuan Wang, Jinglong Zhao, Hanzhang Qin, Cathy Wu, Paul Pu Liang, Jinhua Zhao, Hai Wang
arXiv:2608. 04336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Code generation systems make each LLM call with a model, a prompt, and decoding settings.
By Jingzhi Gong, Jie M. Zhang, Gunel Jahangirova, Dong Huang, Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Mark Harman
arXiv:2606. 21140v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rapid advances in large language models have improved the task-solving capabilities of command-line-interface (CLI)-based agents, whose CLIs determine how models invoke tools, maintain interaction history, and recover from failures.
By Han Chi, Jiaxin Qi, Yan Cui, Baisheng Lai, Jianqiang Huang
arXiv:2608. 17528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern agents operate inside agent harnesses that manage tools, context, and control flow, making the harness a critical part of the agent system.
By Zhiyuan He, Siwei Zhang, Zhiwen Zhou, Yuqing Yang, Yu Kang, Yuge Zhang, Luna K. Qiu, Tin Yan Tsui, Jiahang Xu, Chong Luo
arXiv:2509. 08269v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated with evolutionary computation to support optimization tasks.
By Yisong Zhang, Ran Cheng, Guoxing Yi, Kay Chen Tan
arXiv:2511. 00802v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With data-driven development now widely adopted, online A/B testing is an established method for measuring the effects of new technologies.
By Jie JW Wu, Ayanda Patrick Herlihy, Ahmad Saleem Mirza, Ali Afoud, Fatemeh Fard
arXiv:2606. 25207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) is essential for maximizing machine learning model performance, and its core challenge is sample efficiency: finding strong configurations within a limited budget.
By Taicheng Guo, Haomin Zhuang, Kehan Guo, Yujun Zhou, Nitesh V. Chawla, Olaf Wiest, Xiangliang Zhang
arXiv:2608. 03501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI for Research (AI4Research) leverages AI to automate and improve scientific workflows.
By Zejun Liu, Jian Wu, Ru Peng, Yuliang Ji, Dongyuan Li, Renhe Jiang, Yue Zhang