arXiv:2608. 08127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The runtime of Constraint Programming (CP) solvers is highly sensitive to modeling choices, such as symmetry breaking, implied constraints, global constraints, constraint reformulation, and variable representation.
By Florentina Voboril, Stefan Szeider
arXiv:2606. 04816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly translate natural-language optimization problems into executable solver code.
By Xizi Luo, Changhong He, Dongdong Geng, Chenggong Shi, Yu Mei
arXiv:2512. 13374v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) open new perspectives for automation in optimization, yet little is known about whether their internal representations capture problem structure or algorithmic behavior.
By Francesca Da Ros, Luca Di Gaspero, Kevin Roitero
arXiv:2608. 13333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large neighborhood search normally selects a random subset of decision variables for iterative optimization.
By Hai Xia, Vaidyanathan Peruvemba Ramaswamy, Stefan Szeider
arXiv:2608. 02641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can translate natural-language optimization problems into solver-ready formulations, but direct code generation is brittle: schema, indexing, and semantic errors can cause compilation failures, infeasible models, or incorrect objectives, while iterative repair, search, and multi-agent workflows increase inference cost.
By Penglin Zhu, Linhai Zhang, Jungang Xu, Xinchi Wei, Xiuqi Wu
arXiv:2503. 03137v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Constructive neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) offers a promising paradigm for solving vehicle routing problems (VRPs) by directly learning to construct approximate optimal solutions, thereby reducing reliance on expert knowledge for algorithm design.
By Changliang Zhou, Xi Lin, Zhenkun Wang, Qingfu Zhang