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:2608. 14264v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model merging combines trained models directly in weight space, offering a compute-efficient alternative to additional fine-tuning.
By Utkarsh Agarwal, Vamshi Bonagiri, Raul Astudillo, Monojit Choudhury
arXiv:2603. 02792v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have already been widely adopted for automated algorithm design, demonstrating strong abilities in generating and evolving algorithms across various fields.
By Qi Huang, Furong Ye, Ananta Shahane, Thomas B\"ack, Niki van Stein
arXiv:2509. 08269v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated with evolutionary computation to support optimization tasks.
By Yisong Zhang, Ran Cheng, Guoxing Yi, Kay Chen Tan
arXiv:2511. 22651v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimization methods have long advanced many fields, yet they struggle when faced with design problems where the search space and design parameters are difficult to define.
By Anthony Carreon, Vansh Sharma, Venkat Raman
arXiv:2608. 16733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical design algorithms operate within tightly coupled, multi-stage optimization flows, where stage-local gains may vanish or induce downstream degradation.
By Haixu Liu, Lei Zhou, Yuhao Ren, Yumao Wu, Zhiang Wang
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
arXiv:2606. 21641v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as hyperparameter-optimization (HPO) advisors that "warm-start" search from prior knowledge, proposing strong configurations in very few evaluations.
By Carson Rodrigues, Oysturn Vas, Isaiah Abner DCosta, Nithish Kumar Prabhakaran
arXiv:2603. 29730v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present mlr3mbo, a modular toolbox for Bayesian optimization in R.
By Marc Becker, Lennart Schneider, Martin Binder, Lars Kotthoff, Bernd Bischl
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:2607. 19506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) uses fixed quantum dynamics as a high-dimensional temporal feature map and trains only a lightweight classical readout.
By Krishna Bhatia, Gautami Sanjay Naik
arXiv:2608. 08156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In evolutionary algorithms powered by language models, the LLM acts as a single operator that simultaneously updates structural components (like control flow) and continuous parameters.
By V\'ictor Gallego