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cs.LG2026

Multi-Term Fourier Graph Neural Network with Sample Relationship Learning for Enhanced Remaining Useful Life Prediction

Ya Song, Laurens Bliek, Yaoxin Wu +1

Predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) is essential for effective predictive maintenance. Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks (ST-GNNs), which can model both temporal and spa…

cs.AI2026

Right Diagnoses, Decorative Reasoning:A Perturbation Audit of Medical Chain-of-Thought

Mengzhu Xu, Jifan Gao, Xia Jiang +2

Clinicians read chain-of-thought (CoT) rationales as evidence of medical reasoning, but whether the visible chain plays that role is rarely tested. General-domain CoT-faithfulness…

cs.LG2026

Learning with Foresight: Enhancing Neural Routing Policy via Multi-Node Lookahead Prediction

Xia Jiang, Yaoxin Wu, Yew-Soon Ong +1

Neural policies have shown promise in solving vehicle routing problems due to their reduced reliance on handcrafted heuristics. However, current training paradigms suffer from a fu…

cs.AI2026

Aligning LLMs with Graph Neural Solvers for Combinatorial Optimization

Shaodi Feng, Zhuoyi Lin, Yaoxin Wu +4

Recent research has demonstrated the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) in solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) by representing tasks and instances in natu…

cs.NE2026

Towards Solving Polynomial-Objective Integer Programming with Hypergraph Neural Networks

Minshuo Li, Yaoxin Wu, Pavel Troubil +2

Complex real-world optimization problems often involve both discrete decisions and nonlinear relationships between variables. Many such problems can be modeled as polynomial-object…

cs.AI2026

Reasoning in a Combinatorial and Constrained World: Benchmarking LLMs on Natural-Language Combinatorial Optimization

Xia Jiang, Jing Chen, Cong Zhang +5

While large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in math and logic reasoning, their ability to handle combinatorial optimization (CO) -- searching high-dimensional…

cs.LG2026

Adversarial Instance Generation and Robust Training for Neural Combinatorial Optimization with Multiple Objectives

Wei Liu, Yaoxin Wu, Yingqian Zhang +2

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown great promise in addressing multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems (MOCOPs). Nevertheless, the robustness of these learning…

cs.LG2025

End-to-end Deep Reinforcement Learning for Stochastic Multi-objective Optimization in C-VRPTW

Abdo Abouelrous, Laurens Bliek, Yaoxin Wu +1

In this work, we consider learning-based applications in routing to solve a Vehicle Routing variant characterized by stochasticity and multiple objectives. Such problems are repres…

cs.CV2025

Multimodal Attention-Aware Fusion for Diagnosing Distal Myopathy: Evaluating Model Interpretability and Clinician Trust

Mohsen Abbaspour Onari, Lucie Charlotte Magister, Yaoxin Wu +10

Distal myopathy represents a genetically heterogeneous group of skeletal muscle disorders with broad clinical manifestations, posing diagnostic challenges in radiology. To address…

cs.NE2025

Graph-Supported Dynamic Algorithm Configuration for Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization

Robbert Reijnen, Yaoxin Wu, Zaharah Bukhsh +1

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been widely used for dynamic algorithm configuration, particularly in evolutionary computation, which benefits from the adaptive update of par…

cs.LG2025

Graph Reduction with Unsupervised Learning in Column Generation: A Routing Application

Abdo Abouelrous, Laurens Bliek, Adriana F. Gabor +2

Column Generation (CG) is a popular method dedicated to enhancing computational efficiency in large scale Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems. It reduces the number of decisio…

cs.LG2025

Reinforcement Learning for Solving the Pricing Problem in Column Generation: Applications to Vehicle Routing

Abdo Abouelrous, Laurens Bliek, Adriana F. Gabor +2

In this paper, we address the problem of Column Generation (CG) using Reinforcement Learning (RL). Specifically, we use a RL model based on the attention-mechanism architecture to…

cs.AI2024

Neural Combinatorial Optimization for Stochastic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problems

Igor G. Smit, Yaoxin Wu, Pavel Troubil +2

Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) has gained significant attention due to the potential of deep learning to efficiently solve combinatorial optimization problems. NCO has bee…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Bridging Large Language Models and Optimization: A Unified Framework for Text-attributed Combinatorial Optimization

Xia Jiang, Yaoxin Wu, Yuan Wang +1

To advance capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs), this paper presents the Language-based Neural COP Solver (LNCS), a no…

cs.AI2024

Graph Neural Networks for Job Shop Scheduling Problems: A Survey

Igor G. Smit, Jianan Zhou, Robbert Reijnen +6

Job shop scheduling problems (JSSPs) represent a critical and challenging class of combinatorial optimization problems. Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the applicat…