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A Systematic Survey on Large Language Models for Evolutionary Optimization: From Modeling to Solving

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arXiv:2509. 08269v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated with evolutionary computation to support optimization tasks.

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