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

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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…