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While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code generation, they often produce solutions that lack guarantees of correctness, robustness, and efficiency. This limitation is particularly acute in domains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yueke Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Kevin Leach , Yu Huang

Inspired by natural evolutionary processes, Evolutionary Computation (EC) has established itself as a cornerstone of Artificial Intelligence. Recently, with the surge in data-intensive applications and large-scale complex systems, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Beichen Huang , Ran Cheng , Zhuozhao Li , Yaochu Jin , Kay Chen Tan

Anthropic proposes the concept of skills for LLM agents to tackle multi-step professional tasks that simple tool invocations cannot address. A tool is a single, self-contained function, whereas a skill is a structured bundle of…

Recent advancements in code completion models have primarily focused on local file contexts. However, these studies do not fully capture the complexity of real-world software development, which often requires the use of rapidly-evolving…

Evolving software is challenging, even more when it exists in many different variants. Such software evolves not only in time, but also in space--another dimension of complexity. While evolution in space is supported by a variety of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Christoph Derks , Daniel Strüber , Thorsten Berger

Robot swarms offer inherent robustness and the capacity to execute complex, collaborative tasks surpassing the capabilities of single-agent systems. Co-designing these systems is critical, as marginal improvements in individual performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Andrew Wilhelm , Josie Hughes

Can AI accelerate the development of AI itself? While recent agentic systems have shown strong performance on well-scoped tasks with rapid feedback, it remains unclear whether they can tackle the costly, long-horizon, and weakly supervised…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Weixian Xu , Tiantian Mi , Yixiu Liu , Yang Nan , Zhimeng Zhou , Lyumanshan Ye , Lin Zhang , Yu Qiao , Pengfei Liu

Solving NP-hard problems traditionally relies on heuristics, yet manually designing effective heuristics for complex problems remains a significant challenge. While recent advancements like FunSearch have shown that large language models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zijie Chen , Zhanchao Zhou , Yu Lu , Renjun Xu , Lili Pan , Zhenzhong Lan

The balance of exploration versus exploitation (EvE) is a key issue on evolutionary computation. In this paper we will investigate how an adaptive controller aimed to perform Operator Selection can be used to dynamically manage the EvE…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-08 Giacomo di Tollo , Frédéric Lardeux , Jorge Maturana , Frédéric Saubion

We present CodeReef - an open platform to share all the components necessary to enable cross-platform MLOps (MLSysOps), i.e. automating the deployment of ML models across diverse systems in the most efficient way. We also introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Grigori Fursin , Herve Guillou , Nicolas Essayan

Coevolution is a powerful tool in evolutionary computing that mitigates some of its endemic problems, namely stagnation in local optima and lack of convergence in high dimensionality problems. Since its inception in 1990, there are multiple…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Noe Casas

Open-ended image generation is no longer a simple prompt-to-image problem. High-quality generation often requires an agent to combine a model's internal generative ability with external resources. As requests become more diverse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Sixiang Chen , Zhaohu Xing , Tian Ye , Xinyu Geng , Yunlong Lin , Jianyu Lai , Xuanhua He , Fuxiang Zhai , Jialin Gao , Lei Zhu

The reasoning frontier of Large Language Models (LLMs) has advanced significantly through modern post-training paradigms (e.g., Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR)). However, the efficacy of these methods remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Liqin Ye , Yanbin Yin , Michael Galarnyk , Yuzhao Heng , Sudheer Chava , Chao Zhang

This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm with a new goal-sequence domination scheme for better decision support in multi-objective optimization. The approach allows the inclusion of advanced hard/soft priority and constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 E. F. Khor , T. H. Lee , R. Sathikannan , K. C. Tan

Self-evolving large language models (LLMs) learn by generating their own training tasks and solutions, reducing reliance on human-curated supervision. However, in many reasoning domains, the model must also validate generated tasks and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Bowen Wei , Nan Wang , Yuqing Zhou , Jinhao Pan , Ziwei Zhu

Large language models have been successfully applied to programming assistance tasks, such as code completion, code insertion, and instructional code editing. However, these applications remain insufficiently automated and struggle to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hao Jiang , Qi Liu , Rui Li , Shengyu Ye , Shijin Wang

Several real-world applications could be modeled as Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) problems, and some prominent examples include portfolio optimization, remote sensing technology, and so on. Most of the models for these…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Yi Chen , Aimin Zhou , Swagatam Das

Self-evolving memory systems are unprecedentedly reshaping the evolutionary paradigm of large language model (LLM)-based agents. Prior work has predominantly relied on manually engineered memory architectures to store trajectories, distill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Guibin Zhang , Haotian Ren , Chong Zhan , Zhenhong Zhou , Junhao Wang , He Zhu , Wangchunshu Zhou , Shuicheng Yan

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at code generation but remain heavily reliant on large-scale annotated solutions and verification-based supervision, which constrains scalability and hinders sustained self-improvement. Recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yixu Huang , Xinglei Yu , Zhongyu Wei

Traditional methods for automating recommender system design, such as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), are often constrained by a fixed search space defined by human priors, limiting innovation to pre-defined operators. While recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Sein Kim , Sangwu Park , Hongseok Kang , Wonjoong Kim , Jimin Seo , Yeonjun In , Kanghoon Yoon , Chanyoung Park