3 papers
cs.LG2026
Large Language Models for Designing Participatory Budgeting Rules
Nguyen Thach, Xingchen Sha, Hau Chan
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic paradigm for deciding the funding of public projects given the residents' preferences, which has been adopted in numerous cities across…
cs.LG2025
RedAHD: Reduction-Based End-to-End Automatic Heuristic Design with Large Language Models
Nguyen Thach, Aida Riahifar, Nathan Huynh +1
Solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) (e.g., traveling salesman problems (TSPs) and capacitated vehicle routing problems (CVRPs)) in practice traditionally inv…
cs.LG2025
Large Language Models for Multi-Facility Location Mechanism Design
Nguyen Thach, Fei Liu, Houyu Zhou +1
Designing strategyproof mechanisms for multi-facility location that optimize social costs based on agent preferences had been challenging due to the extensive domain knowledge requ…