arXiv AI

Synthesizing Feature Extractors: An Agentic Approach for Algorithm Selection

arXiv:2608. 17170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithm selection for constraint satisfaction problems requires extracting features that capture problem structure.

arXiv AI
Aug 11

Improving Constraint Models with LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 08127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The runtime of Constraint Programming (CP) solvers is highly sensitive to modeling choices, such as symmetry breaking, implied constraints, global constraints, constraint reformulation, and variable representation.

By Florentina Voboril, Stefan Szeider
arXiv AI
6d ago

Behavior and Representation in Open-Weight Large Language Models for Combinatorial Optimization: From Feature Extraction to Algorithm Selection

arXiv:2512. 13374v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) open new perspectives for automation in optimization, yet little is known about whether their internal representations capture problem structure or algorithmic behavior.

By Francesca Da Ros, Luca Di Gaspero, Kevin Roitero
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
Jul 22

MILP-Evo: Closed-Loop Fully Automatic Design of MILP Solvers

arXiv:2607. 18252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning methods have shown that data-driven policies can accelerate mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) solvers, but many such approaches remain difficult to inspect, adapt, and deploy because the learned policy is represented as an external predictor or other opaque model.

By Jinbiao Nie, Kewei Feng, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Shan Yin, Zizhuo Wang, Bin Dong
arXiv AI
1d ago

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