arXiv:2606. 00718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown promise in Automated Heuristic Design (AHD), existing methods typically generate and evolve heuristics as a single operator or search strategy, limiting their ability to model strong coupling among multiple decision substructures in problems such as the Traveling Thief Problem (TTP) and the Traveling Purchaser Problem (TPP).
By Mingen Kuang, Xudong Deng, Xi Lin, Ye Fan, Jianyong Sun, Jialong Shi
arXiv:2608. 07544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated heuristic design (AHD) with large language models (LLMs) has produced strong heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems (COPs).
By Oguzhan Gungordu, Siheng Xiong, Faramarz Fekri
arXiv:2606. 00862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) have been widely used for expensive black-box optimization problems.
By Xiao Jin, Yongxiong Wang, Haobo Liu, Yudong Du, Yukun Du
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:2607. 11916v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with evolutionary computation has emerged as a powerful paradigm for automated heuristic design in combinatorial optimization.
By Nam Do Khanh, Nhat Nguyen Tran Minh, Dat Pham Vu Tuan, Long Doan, Binh Huynh Thi Thanh
arXiv:2608. 01918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Harness design plays a critical role in agent performance by shaping how large language models (LLMs) perceive, reason over, and act within executable environments.
By Luan Zhang, Ruochen Zhou, Dandan Song, Zhengyu Chen, Yuhang Tian, Jun Yang, Huipeng Ma, Chenhao Li, Guangyuan Feng, Xudong Li, Yizhou Jin, Yan Xu
Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD) has emerged as a transformative approach for solving combinatorial optimization problems. While recent Large Language Model (LLM)-based methods have shown promise, they predominantly rely on fixed evolutionary operators and struggle to effectively accumulate and reuse historical search experience.
arXiv:2606. 14202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD) by enabling heuristic generation through reasoning and code synthesis.
By Zishang Qiu, Xinan Chen, Rong Qu, Ruibin Bai
arXiv:2605. 08756v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automatic heuristic design (AHD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs).
By Haoze Lv, Ning Lu, Ziang Zhou, Yew-Soon Ong, Shengcai Liu
arXiv:2606. 02863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-Driven Research Systems (ADRS) -- systems coupling LLMs with automated evaluation to discover algorithms, proofs, and designs -- are being optimized and adopted across domains, but the tools to analyze them have not kept pace.
By Marquita Ellis, Paul Castro
arXiv:2607. 18235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous discovery systems such as OpenEvolve and TTT-Discover are often used as general-purpose harnesses.
By Akshat Gupta, Jermaine Lei, Alexander Lu, Gopala Anumanchipalli, Leshem Choshen
arXiv:2602. 13769v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automating heuristic design in complex, experiment-driven domains requires more than iterative mutation of solution algorithms.
By Qi Liu, Ruochen Hao, Can Li, Wanjing Ma