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Oct 22

Harnessing Language Models as Optimization Modeling Agents

The paper introduces two lightweight inference harnesses, OPTICYCLE and OPTISTATE, designed to enable large language models to translate natural-language optimization problems into solver programs without additional training. Evaluated across nine benchmarks and 11 Qwen variants (0.6B–27B parameters), the harnesses consistently improve macro accuracy, with execution-guided revision boosting performance by up to 49.46 percentage points. Despite their simplicity, both harnesses outperform six adapted agentic workflows and four post-trained optimization models of comparable size, though the benefit of explicit formulation state varies by model.