3 papers
cs.CL2026
HeurEvo: Agentic Evolution of Hybrid Solver-Augmented Heuristics for Time-Critical Mathematical Optimization
Feijie Wu, Hugo Barbalho, Konstantina Mellou +5
Recent advances in agentic heuristic design use AI agents and execution feedback to automate algorithm discovery for challenging optimization problems. In many practical settings,…
cs.LG2025
OptiMind: Teaching LLMs to Think Like Optimization Experts
Xinzhi Zhang, Zeyi Chen, Humishka Zope +6
Mathematical programming -- the task of expressing operations and decision-making problems in precise mathematical language -- is fundamental across domains, yet remains a skill-in…
cs.AI2025
On the Emergence of Thinking in LLMs I: Searching for the Right Intuition
Guanghao Ye, Khiem Duc Pham, Xinzhi Zhang +5
Recent AI advancements, such as OpenAI's new models, are transforming LLMs into LRMs (Large Reasoning Models) that perform reasoning during inference, taking extra time and compute…