Papers
Ordinal Secretaries with Advice
Hasti Nourmohammadi, Ying Cao, Bo Sun et al.
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Lehmer Codes to Search Permutation Spaces with Evolutionary Algorithms
Yuxuan Ma, Valentino Santucci, Carsten Witt
EoH-S: Evolution of Heuristic Set Using LLMs for Automated Heuristic Design
Fei Liu, Yilu Liu, Qingfu Zhang et al.
CRAF: A Clinical Reasoning-Adaptive Framework via Reinforcement Learning for Similar Case Retrieval
Jie Lin, Lei Jiang, Zongyi Chen et al.
Random is Faster than Systematic in Multi-Objective Local Search
Zimin Liang, Miqing Li
Efficient Few-Step Solution Generation via Discrete Flow Matching for Combinatorial Optimization
Yuanshu Li, Di Wang, Wei Du et al.
Post-Hoc Refinement for Multitask Symbolic Regression via Consensus-Accelerated Shapley Analysis
Xinyue Li, Wang Hu, Yu Zhang
A Solution Space Transformation-Guided Co-Evolution for Energy-Saving Distributed Heterogeneous Flexible Job Shop Scheduling
Tao Li, Xingchen Li, Haoyue Ma et al.
Nested Depth Search
Junkang Li, Tristan Cazenave, Swann Legras et al.
Priority-Based Graph-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Robust Analog Circuit Optimization
Jintao Li, Zhenxin Chen, Sicheng He et al.
LAMDA: Two-Phase HPO via Learning Prior from Low-Fidelity Data
Fan Li, Shengbo Wang, Ke Li
Finding One Local Optimum Is Easy—but What About Two?
Yasuaki Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Kurita, Yutaro Yamaguchi
MOTIF: Multi-strategy Optimization via Turn-based Interactive Framework
Nguyen Viet Tuan Kiet, Tung Dao, Cong Dao Tran et al.
EvoGrad: Evolutionary-Weighted Gradient and Hessian Learning for Black-Box Optimization
Yedidya Kfir, Elad Sarafian, Yoram Louzoun et al.
Approximation Algorithm for Constrained k-Center Clustering: A Local Search Approach
Chaoqi Jia, Longkun Guo, Kewen Liao et al.
USPR: Learning a Unified Solver for Profiled Routing
Chuanbo Hua, Federico Berto, Zhikai Zhao et al.
Pareto-Grid-Guided Large Language Models for Fast and High-Quality Heuristics Design in Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization
Ha Minh Hieu, Hung Phan, Tung Duy Doan et al.
Beyond Single-Step Updates: Reinforcement Learning of Heuristics with Limited-Horizon Search
Gal Hadar, Forest Agostinelli, Shahaf S. Shperberg
Improved Streaming Algorithm for Fair k-Center Clustering
Longkun Guo, Zeyu Lin, Chaoqi Jia et al.
Practical, Utilitarian Algorithm Configuration
Devon R. Graham, Eros Rojas Velez, Kevin Leyton-Brown
Improved Fully Dynamic Submodular Maximization Under Matroid Constraints
Yiwei Gao, Jialin Zhang, Zhijie Zhang
A Parallel CPU-GPU Framework for Batching Heuristic Operations in Depth-First Heuristic Search
Ehsan Futuhi, Nathan R. Sturtevant
ECPv2: Fast, Efficient, and Scalable Global Optimization of Lipschitz Functions
Fares Fourati, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Vaneet Aggarwal
UCPO: A Universal Constrained Combinatorial Optimization Method via Preference Optimization
Zhanhong Fang, Debing Wang, Jinbiao Chen et al.
Meta-Black-Box Optimization with Bi-Space Landscape Analysis and Dual-Control Mechanism for SAEA
Yukun Du, Haiyue Yu, Xiaotong Xie et al.