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LLMs power new evolutionary framework for automatic optimization benchmark generation

Researchers have developed an evolutionary framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to automatically generate optimization benchmarks. This LLM-driven evolutionary benchmark generator (LLM-EBG) aims to overcome the limitations of existing artificial benchmarks, which often fail to represent real-world problem complexity, and the high cost of creating real-world benchmarks. The framework leverages an LLM as an evolutionary operator to create and refine benchmark problems within a flexible representation space. In a case study, LLM-EBG successfully generated problems where a genetic algorithm consistently outperformed differential evolution over 80% of the time, demonstrating the framework's ability to create problems with distinct geometric characteristics tailored to specific optimization algorithms. AI

IMPACT This framework could accelerate the development and evaluation of optimization algorithms by providing diverse and challenging benchmarks tailored to specific algorithm behaviors.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuhiro Ono, Tomohiro Harada, Yukiya Miura ·

    An Evolutionary Framework for Automatic Optimization Benchmark Generation via Large Language Models

    arXiv:2601.12723v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimization benchmarks play a fundamental role in assessing algorithm performance; however, existing artificial benchmarks often fail to capture the diversity and irregularity of real-world problem structures, while bench…