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Structure-Aware Cooperative Ensemble Evolutionary Optimization on Combinatorial Problems with Multimodal Large Language Models
Jie Zhao, Kang Hao Cheong
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have proven effective in exploring the vast solution spaces typical of graph-structured combinatorial problems. However, traditional encoding schemes,…
Can Large Language Models Be Trusted as Evolutionary Optimizers for Network-Structured Combinatorial Problems?
Jie Zhao, Tao Wen, Kang Hao Cheong
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in language understanding and reasoning across diverse domains. Recently, there has been increasing interest in utilizin…
Multidomain Evolutionary Optimization on Combinatorial Problems in Complex Networks
Jie Zhao, Kang Hao Cheong, Yaochu Jin
Knowledge transfer-based evolutionary optimization has garnered significant attention, such as in multi-task evolutionary optimization (MTEO), which aims to solve complex problems…
Visual Evolutionary Optimization on Graph-Structured Combinatorial Problems with MLLMs: A Case Study of Influence Maximization
Jie Zhao, Kang Hao Cheong
Graph-structured combinatorial problems in complex networks are prevalent in many domains, and are computationally demanding due to their complexity and non-linear nature. Traditio…