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most citedExploring the True Potential: Evaluating the Black-box Optimization Capability of Large Language Models

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13 papers

cs.NE2026

Semantics-Guided Automatic Tensorization for Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms: A Multi-Agent Framework

Zhenyu Liang, Beichen Huang, Bowen Zheng +1

Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) naturally expose population-level parallelism, but many mature implementations encode their computation in sequential program structu…

cs.SE2026

Persistent Recursive Worlds Enable Autonomous Software Evolution

Beichen Huang, Zhenyu Liang, Bowen Zheng +1

Complex software systems develop over timescales that exceed the lifespan of any individual coding agent. Most agentic software systems preserve continuity through persistent sessi…

cs.AI2026

SLAT: Segment-Level Adaptive Trimming for Efficient CoT Reasoning

Jian Yao, Xiongcai Luo, Ran Cheng +1

Recent advances in Large Reasoning Models have significantly improved chain-of-thought (CoT) capabilities via reinforcement learning (RL). However, generated reasoning chains frequ…

cs.NE2026

Beyond Speedups: Hardware-Aware Evaluation of Evolutionary Algorithms on GPUs

Xinmeng Yu, Tao Jiang, Ran Cheng +2

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are increasingly executed on graphics processing units (GPUs) to exploit population-level parallelism. This shift changes the resource model under whi…

cs.NE2025

Learning to Evolve for Optimization via Stability-Inducing Neural Unrolling

Jiaxin Gao, Yaohua Liu, Ran Cheng +1

Evolutionary algorithms serve as a powerful paradigm for tackling optimization challenges, yet their reliance on manually engineered heuristics inherently limits their adaptability…

cs.NE2025

A Systematic Survey on Large Language Models for Evolutionary Optimization: From Modeling to Solving

Yisong Zhang, Ran Cheng, Guoxing Yi +1

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated with evolutionary computation to support optimization tasks. This survey primarily focuses on evolutionary optimization, i.…

cs.NE2025★ 3 cited

Evolutionary Generative Optimization: Towards Fully Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization via Generative Learning

Tao Jiang, Kebin Sun, Zhenyu Liang +3

Recent advances in data-driven evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have demonstrated the potential of leveraging historical data to improve optimization accuracy and adaptability. Despit…

cs.AI2025

VAR-MATH: Probing True Mathematical Reasoning in LLMS via Symbolic Multi-Instance Benchmarks

Jian Yao, Ran Cheng, Kay Chen Tan

Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have led to substantial improvements in the mathematical reasoning abilities of LLMs, as measured by standard benchmarks. Yet these g…

cs.DC2025

EvoGit: Decentralized Code Evolution via Git-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration

Beichen Huang, Ran Cheng, Kay Chen Tan

We introduce EvoGit, a decentralized multi-agent framework for collaborative software development driven by autonomous code evolution. EvoGit deploys a population of independent co…

cs.LG2025

Diversity-Aware Policy Optimization for Large Language Model Reasoning

Jian Yao, Ran Cheng, Xingyu Wu +2

The reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly, particularly following the release of DeepSeek R1, which has inspired a surge of research into dat…

cs.NE2025

ParetoLens: A Visual Analytics Framework for Exploring Solution Sets of Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms

Yuxin Ma, Zherui Zhang, Ran Cheng +2

In the domain of multi-objective optimization, evolutionary algorithms are distinguished by their capability to generate a diverse population of solutions that navigate the trade-o…

cs.NE2025

EvoRL: A GPU-accelerated Framework for Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning

Bowen Zheng, Ran Cheng, Kay Chen Tan

Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning (EvoRL) has emerged as a promising approach to overcoming the limitations of traditional reinforcement learning (RL) by integrating the Evolutio…

cs.NE2024★ 3 cited

Exploring the True Potential: Evaluating the Black-box Optimization Capability of Large Language Models

Beichen Huang, Xingyu Wu, Yu Zhou +4

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance not only in natural language processing tasks but also in a great variety of non-linguistic domains. In diver…