arXiv Machine Learning July 17, 2026 By Zhiqi Gao, Albert Ge, Alexander Berenbeim, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Frederic Sala

Models Can Model, But Can't Bind: Structured Grounding in Text-to-Optimization

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arXiv:2605. 21751v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-to-optimization requires two separable capabilities: modeling -- choosing the right optimization structure -- and binding -- grounding every coefficient, index, and parameter in the concrete problem data.

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