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cs.NE2026

DCL-GPGLS: Dynamic Curriculum Learning for Genetic Programming Guided Local Search in Large-Scale Vehicle Routing

Saining Liu, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang

Genetic Programming Guided Local Search (GPGLS) uses genetic programming to evolve utility functions for guided local search in large-scale vehicle routing problems (LSVRPs). Evalu…

cs.NE2026

Genetic Programming with Behaviour-based Niching for Learning Guided Local Search in Vehicle Routing Problems

Saining Liu, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang

Genetic Programming Guided Local Search (GPGLS) learns utility functions that guide local search for vehicle routing. Its evolving programs can have similar fitness while inducing…

cs.NE2026

Surrogate-Assisted Genetic Programming with Phenotypic Characterisation in Dynamic Multi-Mode Project Scheduling

Yuan Tian, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang

Dynamic multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling requires decisions to be made under precedence constraints, limited resources, multiple execution modes, and uncertain ac…

cs.SE2026

Accelerated Genetic Programming Hyper-Heuristics for Simulation-Based Scheduling via Agentic AI

Heyang Thomas Li, Alexander Pletzer, Yuan Tian +2

Python is widely used in scientific research because it enables rapid development and provides rich ecosystems for data analysis, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning…

cs.AI2026

Guiding Large Language Models with Genetic Programming-Evolved Heuristic Knowledge for Dynamic Multi-Mode Project Scheduling

Yuan Tian, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang

In dynamic multi-mode project scheduling, activities have alternative execution modes and uncertain durations, while precedence relations and limited resources constrain their exec…

cs.CL2026

AutoSG: LLM-Driven Solver Generation Solely from Task Prompts for Expensive Optimization

Haoran Gu, Handing Wang, Yi Mei +1

Expensive optimization tasks are ubiquitous in real-world applications, demanding highly specialized solvers. While LLM-driven automated solver generation shows promise, current pa…

cs.LG2026

Machine Learning-based Two-Stage Graph Sparsification for the Travelling Salesman Problem

Bo-Cheng Lin, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang

High-performance TSP solvers such as Lin-Kernighan-Helsgaun (LKH) search within a \emph{candidate graph} -- a small subset of edges pre-selected for the solver -- rather than over…

cs.NE2026

Surrogate-Assisted Genetic Programming with Rank-Based Phenotypic Characterisation for Dynamic Multi-Mode Project Scheduling

Yuan Tian, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang

The dynamic multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (DMRCPSP) is of practical importance, as it requires making real-time decisions under changing project states…

cs.AI2026

Investigation of the Generalisation Ability of Genetic Programming-evolved Scheduling Rules in Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling

Luyao Zhu, Fangfang Zhang, Yi Mei +1

Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling (DFJSS) is a complex combinatorial optimisation problem that requires simultaneous machine assignment and operation sequencing decisions in dyn…

cs.AI2026

Scalable Knee-Point Guided Activity Group Selection in Multi-Tree Genetic Programming for Dynamic Multi-Mode Project Scheduling

Yuan Tian, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang

The dynamic multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem is a challenging scheduling problem that requires making decisions on both the execution order of activities…

cs.LG2026

Keep Rehearsing and Refining: Lifelong Learning Vehicle Routing under Continually Drifting Tasks

Jiyuan Pei, Yi Mei, Jialin Liu +2

Existing neural solvers for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are typically trained either in a one-off manner on a fixed set of pre-defined tasks or in a lifelong manner with tasks…

cs.NE2026

HeatACO: A Heatmap-Guided Max--Min Ant System for Large-Scale Travelling Salesman Problems

Bo-Cheng Lin, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang

Non-autoregressive neural solvers predict an edge-confidence heatmap for the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) in one forward pass, but a decoder must still produce a feasible Hami…

cs.CR2026

Overlooked Safety Vulnerability in LLMs: Malicious Intelligent Optimization Algorithm Request and its Jailbreak

Haoran Gu, Handing Wang, Yi Mei +2

The widespread deployment of large language models (LLMs) has raised growing concerns about their misuse risks and associated safety issues. While prior studies have examined the s…