MOSAIC: Adversarial Co-evolution of Specialist Heuristics and Problem Instances for LLM-based Automated Heuristic Design

Oguzhan Gungordu, Siheng Xiong, Faramarz Fekri

Automated heuristic design (AHD) with large language models (LLMs) has produced strong heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). Yet existing frameworks optimize f…