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LLM-Guided Heuristic Design from Simulation Traces: A Case Study in Dynamic Production and AGV Scheduling

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arXiv:2608. 09343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-based optimization (SBO) evaluates executable policies under stochastic dynamics, but most methods treat the simulator as a black box: aggregate scores rank candidates without revealing why they fail or which policy logic should change.

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