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20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cs.NE2026

Relation Reasoning with LLMs in Expensive Optimization

Ye Lu, Bingdong Li, Aimin Zhou +1

Expensive optimization problems (EOPs) are black-box tasks with costly objective evaluations and no gradient access, making the evaluation budget the key bottleneck. Surrogate-assi…

cs.AI2026

IB-GRPO: Aligning LLM-based Learning Path Recommendation with Educational Objectives via Indicator-Based Group Relative Policy Optimization

Shuai Wang, Yaoming Yang, Bingdong Li +2

Learning Path Recommendation (LPR) aims to generate personalized sequences of learning items that maximize long-term learning effect while respecting pedagogical principles and ope…

cs.AI2025

EA4LLM: A Gradient-Free Approach to Large Language Model Optimization via Evolutionary Algorithms

WenTao Liu, Siyu Song, Hao Hao +1

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress, with model optimization primarily relying on gradient-based optimizers such as Adam. However, these gra…

physics.chem-ph2025

A Large Language Model for Chemistry and Retrosynthesis Predictions

Yueqing Zhang, Wentao Liu, Yan Zhang +9

Large language models (LLM) have achieved impressive progress across a broad range of general-purpose tasks, but their effectiveness in chemistry remains limited due to scarce doma…

cs.NE2024

Un-evaluated Solutions May Be Valuable in Expensive Optimization

Hao Hao, Xiaoqun Zhang, Aimin Zhou

Expensive optimization problems (EOPs) are prevalent in real-world applications, where the evaluation of a single solution requires a significant amount of resources. In our study…

cs.CL2024

It's Morphing Time: Unleashing the Potential of Multiple LLMs via Multi-objective Optimization

Bingdong Li, Zixiang Di, Yanting Yang +5

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for addressing the multi-objective optimization problem in large language model merging via black-box multi-objective optimization algo…