arXiv:2508. 20330v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering.
By Zohair Shafi, Serdar Kadioglu
arXiv:2607. 22467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data scarcity poses a fundamental challenge in training generative models to produce initial guesses for parametric optimization problems that are otherwise numerically expensive to solve.
By Anjian Li, Ryne Beeson
arXiv:2606. 08797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decision-focused learning has shown great promise for addressing predict-then-optimize problems, particularly in the presence of under-specified models.
By St\'ephane Eilles-Chan Way, Hugo Percot, Quentin Cappart, Tias Guns, Louis-Martin Rousseau
arXiv:2606. 02294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operations research practitioners typically tackle NP-hard combinatorial problems using large neighborhood search (LNS), a scalable heuristic that iteratively refines a current solution by locally re-optimizing subsets of its variables.
By Germain Vivier-Ardisson, Laurent Demonet, Axel Parmentier, Mathieu Blondel
arXiv:2606. 01081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision-focused learning (DFL) trains predictive models by optimizing downstream decision quality rather than standalone prediction accuracy.
By Wyame Benslimane, Tinghan Ye, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Paul Grigas
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