Evolutionary computation in the era of large language model: Survey and roadmap

X Wu, S Wu, J Wu, L Feng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large language models (LLMs) have not only revolutionized natural language processing
but also extended their prowess to various domains, marking a significant stride towards …

Exploring the true potential: Evaluating the black-box optimization capability of large language models

B Huang, X Wu, Y Zhou, J Wu, L Feng, R Cheng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance not only in
natural language processing tasks but also in a great variety of non-linguistic domains. In …

Toward Automated Algorithm Design: A Survey and Practical Guide to Meta-Black-Box-Optimization

Z Ma, H Guo, YJ Gong, J Zhang, KC Tan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.00625, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this survey, we introduce Meta-Black-Box-Optimization~(MetaBBO) as an emerging
avenue within the Evolutionary Computation~(EC) community, which incorporates Meta …

A systematic survey on large language models for algorithm design

F Liu, Y Yao, P Guo, Z Yang, Z Zhao, X Lin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Algorithm Design (AD) is crucial for effective problem-solving across various domains. The
advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has notably enhanced the automation and …

Learning Improvement Representations to Accelerate Evolutionary Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization

S Liu, Z Wang, L Ma, J Chen, X Zhou - Information Sciences, 2025 - Elsevier
Large-Scale multi-objective optimization problems present significant challenges to
traditional evolutionary algorithms due to the exponentially increased search space and …

Deep Insights into Automated Optimization with Large Language Models and Evolutionary Algorithms

H Yu, J Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.20848, 2024 - arxiv.org
Designing optimization approaches, whether heuristic or meta-heuristic, usually demands
extensive manual intervention and has difficulty generalizing across diverse problem …

Artificial evolutionary intelligence (AEI): evolutionary computation evolves with large language models

C He, Y Tian, Z Lu - Journal of Membrane Computing, 2024 - Springer
Deep learning (DL) and evolutionary computation (EC), two main branches of artificial
intelligence, have attracted attention in a far different way over the past decades. On the one …

Language Model Evolutionary Algorithms for Recommender Systems: Benchmarks and Algorithm Comparisons

J Liu, Z Sun, S Feng, YS Ong - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.10697, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the evolutionary computing community, the remarkable language-handling capabilities
and reasoning power of large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the …

MOLLM: Multi-Objective Large Language Model for Molecular Design--Optimizing with Experts

N Ran, Y Wang, R Allmendinger - arxiv preprint arxiv:2502.12845, 2025 - arxiv.org
Molecular design plays a critical role in advancing fields such as drug discovery, materials
science, and chemical engineering. This work introduces the Multi-Objective Large …

An Evolutionary Large Language Model for Hallucination Mitigation

A Boulesnane, A Souilah - 2024 1st International Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of LLMs, like ChatGPT and Gemini, has marked the modern era of artificial
intelligence applications characterized by high-impact applications generating text, images …