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Automated heuristic design (AHD) has gained considerable attention for its potential to automate the development of effective heuristics. The recent advent of large language models (LLMs) has paved a new avenue for AHD, with initial efforts…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Rui Zhang , Fei Liu , Xi Lin , Zhenkun Wang , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang

Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) using Large Language Models (LLMs) has achieved notable success in recent years. Despite the effectiveness of existing approaches, they only design a single heuristic to serve all problem instances, often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Fei Liu , Yilu Liu , Qingfu Zhang , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan

The omnipresence of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) compels domain experts to engage in trial-and-error heuristic design. The long-standing endeavor of design automation has gained new momentum with the rise of large…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Haoran Ye , Jiarui Wang , Zhiguang Cao , Federico Berto , Chuanbo Hua , Haeyeon Kim , Jinkyoo Park , Guojie Song

Heuristics are widely used for dealing with complex search and optimization problems. However, manual design of heuristics can be often very labour extensive and requires rich working experience and knowledge. This paper proposes Evolution…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Fei Liu , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan , Xi Lin , Fu Luo , Zhenkun Wang , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang

Heuristics are commonly used to tackle various search and optimization problems. Design heuristics usually require tedious manual crafting with domain knowledge. Recent works have incorporated Large Language Models (LLMs) into automatic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Shunyu Yao , Fei Liu , Xi Lin , Zhichao Lu , Zhenkun Wang , Qingfu Zhang

Heuristic dispatching rules (HDRs) are widely regarded as effective methods for solving dynamic job shop scheduling problems (DJSSP) in real-world production environments. However, their performance is highly scenario-dependent, often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jin Huang , Xinyu Li , Liang Gao , Qihao Liu , Yue Teng

Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD) has gained traction as a promising solution for solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged and become a promising approach to achieving AHD, but current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiawei Xu , Feng-Feng Wei , Wei-Neng Chen

Many real-world optimization problems consist of multiple tightly coupled subproblems whose solutions must be coordinated to achieve high overall performance. However, existing large language model driven automated heuristic design…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Thomas Bömer , Bastian Amberg , Max Disselnmeyer , Anne Meyer

Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced the field of Combinatorial Optimization through automated heuristic generation. Instead of relying on manual design, this LLM-Driven Heuristic Design (LHD) process leverages LLMs to iteratively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Rongzheng Wang , Yihong Huang , Muquan Li , Jiakai Li , Di Liang , Bob Simons , Pei Ke , Shuang Liang , Ke Qin

Designing optimization approaches, whether heuristic or meta-heuristic, usually demands extensive manual intervention and has difficulty generalizing across diverse problem domains. The combination of Large Language Models (LLMs) and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 He Yu , Jing Liu

Designing high-performing metaheuristics for NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, such as the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), remains a significant challenge, often requiring extensive domain expertise and manual tuning. Recent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Manuj Malik , Jianan Zhou , Shashank Reddy Chirra , Zhiguang Cao

Combinatorial optimization problems often rely on heuristic algorithms to generate efficient solutions. However, the manual design of heuristics is resource-intensive and constrained by the designer's expertise. Recent advances in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Thomas Bömer , Nico Koltermann , Max Disselnmeyer , Laura Dörr , Anne Meyer

Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) in combinatorial optimization (CO) in the past few years. However, existing discovery pipelines often require extensive manual trial-and-error or reliance on domain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Mingxin Yu , Ruixiao Yang , Chuchu Fan

Designing heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) is a fundamental yet challenging task that traditionally requires extensive domain expertise. Recently, Large Language Model (LLM)-based Automated Heuristic Design (AHD)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Bin Chen , Shouliang Zhu , Beidan Liu , Yong Zhao , Tianle Pu , Huichun Li , Zhengqiu Zhu

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into evolutionary frameworks has established a new paradigm for automated heuristic discovery. Despite their promise, these methods typically search in the discrete space of program syntax,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Cheikh Ahmed , Mahdi Mostajabdaveh , Zirui Zhou

Large language models (LLMs) have recently advanced automatic heuristic design (AHD) for combinatorial optimization (CO), where candidate heuristics are iteratively proposed, evaluated, and refined. Most existing approaches search over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Nguyen Viet Tuan Kiet , Bui Dinh Pham , Dao Van Tung , Tran Cong Dao , Huynh Thi Thanh Binh

Large Language Model (LLM)-guided evolutionary search is increasingly used for automated algorithm discovery, yet most current methods track search progress primarily through executable programs and scalar fitness. Even when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Sichun Luo , Yi Huang , Haochen Luo , Fengyuan Liu , Guanzhi Deng , Lei Li , Qinghua Yao , Zefa Hu , Junlan Feng , Qi Liu

Heuristic functions are essential to the performance of tree search algorithms such as A*, where their accuracy and efficiency directly impact search outcomes. Traditionally, such heuristics are handcrafted, requiring significant expertise.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Thomas Bömer , Nico Koltermann , Max Disselnmeyer , Bastian Amberg , Anne Meyer

Tackling complex optimization problems often relies on expert-designed heuristics, typically crafted through extensive trial and error. Recent advances demonstrate that large language models (LLMs), when integrated into well-designed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ziyao Huang , Weiwei Wu , Kui Wu , Jianping Wang , Wei-Bin Lee

Large Language Model (LLM) based automated heuristic design (AHD) has shown great potential in discovering efficient heuristics. Most existing LLM-AHD frameworks use semantic evolutionary operators that rely entirely on the LLM's…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sun Shengming , Shi Jialong
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