arXiv:2606. 26578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating optimization modeling from natural language with large language models (LLMs) faces two key challenges.
By Qingcan Kang, Mingyang Liu, Xiaojin Fu, Shixiong Kai, Tao Zhong, Mingxuan Yuan
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:2607. 21971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling through iterative self-evolution with environment feedback, as demonstrated by AlphaEvolve, shows remarkable performance gains.
By Shujin Wu, Cheng Qian, Xiusi Chen, Heng Ji
arXiv:2606. 10389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in LLM-driven code evolution have enabled automated discovery by iteratively generating and improving programs.
By Haoran Li, Zengle Ge, Ziyang Zhang, Xiaomin Yuan, Yui Lo, Qianhui Liu, Bocheng An, Dongke Rong, Jiaqun Liu, Annan Li, Jianmin Wu, Dawei Yin, Dou Shen
arXiv:2606. 01286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid progress of frontier large language models has led to widespread benchmark saturation, limiting the ability of existing datasets to differentiate model capabilities or provide useful training signal.
By Yangzhen Wu, Aaron J. Li, Wenjie Ma, Li Cao, Ziheng Zhou, Mert Cemri, Shu Liu, Yuran Xiu, Chenxiao Yan, Haikun Zhao, Bin Yu, Ion Stoica, Dawn Song
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