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most citedExLLM: Experience-Enhanced LLM Optimization for Molecular Design and Beyond

2 citations · 3 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.LG2026

An important Bottleneck in LLM Optimizers: Principle-Level Local Optima

Nian Ran, Tianhe Jia, Zhengyang Mu +6

Feedback-driven LLM optimizers are increasingly used for evolutionary search, Bayesian optimization, heuristic design, and scientific discovery. Yet rapid initial gains often give…

cs.LG2026

WMLLM: Self-Evolving Optimization Agents via Predict-Then-Act World Modeling

Zhongzheng Li, Qingsong Ran, Shikun Feng +5

Black-box optimization problems remain challenging because of large, weakly structured, and high-dimensional search spaces. Existing methods often suffer from poor sample efficienc…

cs.AI2026

OPTScientist: Multi-Agent Discovery of Typed Optimizer Programs for Transformer Pretraining

Zhongzheng Li, Tiancan Feng, Wenhao Li +5

Designing optimizers for modern deep learning remains a challenging scientific problem, requiring the joint consideration of optimization geometry, state dynamics, numerical stabil…

cs.LG2025

MCCE: A Framework for Multi-LLM Collaborative Search in Discrete Spaces with Similarity-Filtered Preference Learning

Nian Ran, Zhongzheng Li, Yue Wang +5

Multi-objective discrete optimization problems, such as molecular design, pose significant challenges due to their vast and unstructured combinatorial spaces. Traditional evolution…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

ExLLM: Experience-Enhanced LLM Optimization for Molecular Design and Beyond

Nian Ran, Yue Wang, Xiaoyuan Zhang +4

Molecular design involves an enormous and irregular search space, where traditional optimizers such as Bayesian optimization, genetic algorithms, and generative models struggle to…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

HR-Extreme: A High-Resolution Dataset for Extreme Weather Forecasting

Nian Ran, Peng Xiao, Yue Wang +4

The application of large deep learning models in weather forecasting has led to significant advancements in the field, including higher-resolution forecasting and extended predicti…