arXiv AI

Can LLMs Build a MaxSAT Solver from Papers? The CoreForge Experience

arXiv:2607. 14818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We report on CoreForge, an experience in using large language models (LLMs) to build an unweighted MaxSAT solver from research papers rather than from an existing solver codebase.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

$\Phi$-Bench: Can Large Language Models Engineer the Infrastructure That Powers Them?

arXiv:2609.10226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning and code generation, raising the prospect that they could assist in...

By Leilei Ding, Shumin Wang, Yuting Huang, Fanqi Wan, Yinmin Zhang, Qi Han, Yiming Xu, Feiyuan Zhang, Xiaomeng Chu, Guoliang You, Wuyang Zhang, Daxin Jiang, Yanyong Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

FrontierOR: Benchmarking LLMs' Capacity for Efficient Algorithm Design in Large-Scale Optimization

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 AI
Sep 2

SOVER: Formal Certification of Optimization Reformulations via LLM-Assisted SMT Verification

The paper introduces SOVER, a framework that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract semantic mappings between optimization reformulations and then formally verifies these mappings with SMT solvers. Z3 is employed to check domain cross-feasibility and objective-order preservation for mixed-integer linear problems, while dReal handles tolerance-aware feasibility and ε-argmin checks for continuous nonlinear problems. The authors also present NLEquiv-150, a benchmark of 150 nonlinear reformulation pairs, and report that SOVER correctly classifies 149 out of 150 pairs, including all 50 hard negatives, with the single error due to incomplete mapping extraction.

By Swapnil Bhattacharyya, Mayank Baranwal
arXiv AI
Jul 24

VeriSimpl: Robust Optimization Modeling from Natural Language using Simplification-based Verification

arXiv:2607. 20474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural language interfaces can greatly benefit the accessibility and usability of optimization modeling, and recent advances in large language models (LLMs) show promise in automatically translating textual problem descriptions into executable solver formulations.

By Sumaya Abdul Rahman, Seckhen Ariel Andrade Cuellar, Ghani Raissov, Mohammad Raza
arXiv AI
Aug 5

IR2Solve: Structured Intermediate Representations for Cost-Efficient Optimization Autoformulation

arXiv:2608. 02641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can translate natural-language optimization problems into solver-ready formulations, but direct code generation is brittle: schema, indexing, and semantic errors can cause compilation failures, infeasible models, or incorrect objectives, while iterative repair, search, and multi-agent workflows increase inference cost.

By Penglin Zhu, Linhai Zhang, Jungang Xu, Xinchi Wei, Xiuqi Wu
arXiv AI
Aug 18

ReLoop: Structured Modeling and Behavioral Verification for Reliable LLM-Based Optimization

arXiv:2602. 15983v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can translate natural language into optimization code, but silent failures pose a critical risk: code that executes and returns solver-feasible solutions may encode semantically incorrect formulations---a feasibility--correctness gap reaching 90 percentage points on compositional problems.

By Junbo Jacob Lian, Yujun Sun, Huiling Chen, Chaoyu Zhang, Hanzhang Qin, Chung-Piaw Teo
arXiv AI
3d ago

Right Answers, Costly Models: The Efficiency Gap in LLM-based Optimization Modeling

The paper introduces OptTips, a knowledge base of 50 expert optimization modeling techniques, and OptDachshund, a multi‑agent framework that generates mathematical models and solver code from natural‑language problem descriptions. Using these tools, the authors create the EfficientOpt benchmark, comprising 561 expert‑reviewed tasks with paired reference implementations, to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on both correctness and computational efficiency. Their experiments with 11 LLMs show a consistent efficiency gap: even when LLMs produce correct solutions, the resulting programs often take longer to solve than expert‑crafted counterparts, highlighting the need to assess both accuracy and runtime performance in LLM‑based optimization modeling.

By Zhong Li, Xin Huang, Jinhui Wan, Xiangyi Wang, Shenkai Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Wenyu Liu, Zaiwen Wen, Ziyan Luo