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:2608. 03129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model-assisted Evolutionary Search (LES) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for automated algorithm design.
By Qinglong Hu, Qingfu Zhang, Fei Liu, Xialiang Tong, Kun Mao, Mingxuan Yuan
arXiv:2501. 17377v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising approach for solving Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems, such as the 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP), Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), or Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), but these neural solvers often exhibit brittleness when facing distribution shifts.
By Han Fang, Paul Weng, Yutong Ban
The paper introduces LLM-EBG, an evolutionary framework that uses a large language model as a generative operator to automatically create optimization benchmarks. By generating unconstrained single-objective continuous minimization problems expressed as mathematical formulas, the framework can produce benchmarks that consistently favor a target algorithm over a comparison algorithm in over 80% of trials. Landscape analysis shows that these generated problems exhibit distinct geometric traits, such as sensitivity to variable scaling, reflecting the search behaviors of different optimization methods.
By Yuhiro Ono, Tomohiro Harada, Yukiya Miura
arXiv:2606. 29082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Would experience designing faster GPU kernels also help close in on a long-standing open mathematical conjecture?
By Young-Jun Lee, Seungone Kim, Minki Kang, Alistair Cheong Liang Chuen, Zerui Chen, Seungho Han, Taehee Jung, Dongyeop Kang
arXiv:2506. 02594v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to synthesize heuristic programs, yet most existing pipelines optimize solvers against fixed benchmark distributions.
By Ruibo Duan, Yuxin Liu, Haoran Ye, Xinyao Dong, Zhiqiang Xu, Chenglin Fan
arXiv:2607. 18632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated Algorithm Selection (AS) aims to improve problem-solving performance by selecting, for each problem instance, the most suitable algorithm from a predefined portfolio.
By Zhaoxuan Li, Jiale Yang, Yifei Lu, Mustafa Misir
arXiv:2608. 05651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-driven evolution has shown promise for program search and algorithm discovery, but relying on strong models throughout long evolutionary runs is costly.
By Sichun Luo, Yi Huang, Guanzhi Deng, Haibo Wang, Haochen Luo, Lei Li, Zefa Hu, Junlan Feng, Qi Liu
arXiv:2605.29268v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: LLM-guided evolutionary search (Evolve systems) has reached state-of-the-art results on mathematical and combinatorial tasks, yet most existi...
By Sixue Xing, Haoyu He, Kerui Wu, Zhuo Yang, Haozheng Luo, Tianfan Fu, Aarthy Nagarajan
arXiv:2601. 01665v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown great promise in addressing multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems (MOCOPs).
By Wei Liu, Yaoxin Wu, Yingqian Zhang, Thomas B\"ack, Yingjie Fan
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
Large language model (LLM)-driven evolution has shown promise for program search and algorithm discovery, but relying on strong models throughout long evolutionary runs is costly. A natural alternative is to combine cheap and strong models under a fixed inference budget.