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.
arXiv:2606. 07603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, yet most LLM-based agents are statically deployed and unable to improve through task interactions.
arXiv:2609.37172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for automated heuristic design (AHD), enabling iterative generation and refinement of heuri...
arXiv:2607. 21971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling through iterative self-evolution with environment feedback, as demonstrated by AlphaEvolve, shows remarkable performance gains.
Successful mutation strategies in evolutionary code search may contain reusable knowledge that is useful beyond a single run, and in some cases may transfer across related tasks and domains. However, existing LLM-driven evolutionary frameworks largely discard such knowledge, repeatedly rediscovering similar ideas and limiting opportunities for cross-run and cross-task learning.
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).
OR-Agent is a multi‑agent research framework that automates heuristic design for optimization problems by structuring heuristic search as a tree‑based workflow with explicit hypothesis generation and systematic backtracking. It introduces a hierarchical, optimization‑inspired reflection system that uses short‑term reflections as verbal gradients, long‑term reflections as verbal momentum, and memory compression as semantic weight decay to guide research dynamics. Experiments on classical combinatorial optimization tasks and simulation‑based cooperative driving scenarios show that OR‑Agent outperforms strong evolutionary search baselines, with all code and data publicly available.
arXiv:2608. 10795v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Successful mutation strategies in evolutionary code search may contain reusable knowledge that is useful beyond a single run, and in some cases may transfer across related tasks and domains.
arXiv:2604. 17708v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automating operations research (OR) with large language models (LLMs) remains limited by hand-crafted reasoning--execution workflows.
The paper introduces Auto‑Robotist, a self‑evolving large language model (LLM) agent that transforms evolutionary robot design search traces into an explicit natural‑language skill library. Each skill records a structural archetype, evidence‑grounded rules, and supporting designs, enabling the agent to retrieve and condition LLM edits during search while still using a genetic algorithm for exploration. Experiments on seven EvoGym tasks show that Auto‑Robotist outperforms standard genetic algorithms, especially when transferring learned skills to larger design spaces.
arXiv:2609.00023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we introduce ES-AHD, a novel framework that fundamentally integrates Evolution Strategy (ES) into Large Language Model (LLM)-driven Au...
arXiv:2605. 29649v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Heuristic search is the dominant paradigm in symbolic AI planning, and the strongest heuristics are the result of decades of work by planning researchers.
arXiv:2606. 04465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: System prompt optimization improves agent behavior without modifying the underlying model, yielding human-readable, model-agnostic instructions.