ATLAS is an embedding‑guided quality‑diversity framework that enables scaffold‑free synthesis of full algorithms for combinatorial optimization using large language models. It allows the LLM to freely choose, restructure, and control algorithm components while automatically detecting and repairing execution, interface, and feasibility failures. Across four NP‑hard problems, ATLAS outperforms state‑of‑the‑art component‑synthesis methods and remains competitive with strong human‑designed algorithms, demonstrating that a larger design space can be practically searched.
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.
arXiv:2604.04940v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Designing effective heuristics for NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems remains challenging and often requires substantial domain expertise....
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.
arXiv:2603. 12712v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models~(LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code generation, yet their performance remains limited on domain-specific tasks such as Computer-Aided Design~(CAD) code generation, largely due to the scarcity of high-quality training data.
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.
arXiv:2607. 06839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing NAS benchmarks (e.
arXiv:2609.36303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in agentic heuristic design use AI agents and execution feedback to automate algorithm discovery for challenging optimization problem...
arXiv:2608. 03636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model-based automated heuristic design (LLM-AHD) has shown strong potential in discovering effective heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems.
The paper addresses the failure of large language models (LLMs) in code generation when routine correctness relies on execution-dependent coupling—situations where the meaning of one routine depends on another’s runtime behavior. It introduces a dynamic context adaptation framework that iteratively validates generated code, extracts diagnostic information from execution traces, and guides generation using a knowledge graph and simulated annealing. Experiments show the method surpasses zero‑shot, Reflexion, and OpenEvolve on most benchmark problems, especially where runtime coupling is critical.
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).
arXiv:2608. 01633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) enable neural architecture search (NAS) directly over executable neural network programs.
TO-Agents is a multi‑agent AI framework that translates natural‑language design intent into iterative topology optimization. It converts a human problem description into solver inputs, runs the optimizer, renders 3D topologies, and employs a judge agent to critique and revise results using multiview vision‑language reasoning. Evaluated on a cantilever beam and a phone‑stand design, the system achieved preference‑aligned designs in 60% of trials, outperforming an ablated pipeline by up to six times and enabling end‑to‑end intent‑to‑prototype design with additive manufacturing.