activity
20242026
collaborators

10 papers

cs.LG2026

FORGE: Foundational Optimization Representations from Graph Embeddings

Zohair Shafi, Serdar Kadioglu

Combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Still, learning-based approaches to accelerate combinatorial optimization often require solving a lar…

cs.AI2026

Text2Model: Modeling Copilots for Text-to-Model Translation

Serdar Kadioglu, Karthik Uppuluri, Akash Singirikonda

There is growing interest in leveraging large language models (LLMs) for text-to-model translation and optimization tasks. This paper aims to advance this line of research by intro…

cs.CL2026

Learn2Zinc: Fine-tuning Small Language Models for Text-to-Model Translation in MiniZinc

Serdar Kadioglu, Karthik Uppuluri

Large language models excel at code generation for mainstream programming languages but struggle with rare, domain-specific languages such as MiniZinc, a constraint modeling langua…

cs.AI2026

BoolXLLM: LLM-Assisted Explainability for Boolean Models

Du Cheng, Serdar Kadioglu, Xin Wang

Interpretable machine learning aims to provide transparent models whose decision-making processes can be readily understood by humans. Recent advances in rule-based approaches, suc…

cs.LG2026

Transfer Learning from Foundational Optimization Embeddings to Unsupervised SAT Representations

Koyena Pal, Serdar Kadioglu

Foundational optimization embeddings have recently emerged as powerful pre-trained representations for mixed-integer programming (MIP) problems. These embeddings were shown to enab…

cs.AI2025

Gala: Global LLM Agents for Text-to-Model Translation

Junyang Cai, Serdar Kadioglu, Bistra Dilkina

Natural language descriptions of optimization or satisfaction problems are challenging to translate into correct MiniZinc models, as this process demands both logical reasoning and…