Evolving Better Heuristics with AI

Evolving Better Heuristics with AI

LLMs for Multi-objective Optimization Beyond Just Performance

This research introduces a novel approach using Large Language Models to automatically generate optimization heuristics that balance multiple objectives simultaneously.

  • Creates heuristics that are not only effective but also efficient and scalable
  • Applies multi-objective evolutionary algorithms to evolve LLM-generated code
  • Demonstrates superior results on classic optimization problems like Bin Packing
  • Produces human-interpretable heuristics that can generalize to larger problem instances

For engineering applications, this breakthrough means automated development of optimization algorithms that consider real-world constraints like computation time and code complexity, not just raw performance.

Multi-objective Evolution of Heuristic Using Large Language Model

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