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TRACE: Tackling Real-World Resource Assignment Problems via Agentic Heuristic Design
Oct 1, 2026Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-PerezAutomated Heuristic Design Repair-Assignment Problem
NEC Laboratories Europe · i2CAT Foundation and ICREA
AbsorbEvo: An Agentic Framework for Autonomous Inverse Design of Microwave Absorbers
Oct 1, 2026Zhicheng Feng, Yubo Zhao, Xuefeng YaoGenerative Inverse Design Automated Heuristic Design
Department of Engineering Mechanics, Applied Mechanics Lab, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
From Search to Signal: Online Post-Training in Automatic Heuristic Design
Sep 30, 2026Yilun Yuan, Tianyu Zhou, Zhenzhou TangAutomated Heuristic Design Post-Training
Wenzhou University
SimpleEvol: An Agent-Loop Framework for LLM-Driven Automated Heuristic Design with Minimal Human Priors
Sep 29, 2026Jianghan Zhu, Cong Zhang, Rongjie Zhu +2Automated Heuristic Design Heuristics
School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore · Independent Researcher · School of Teacher Education, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China +1
HeurEvo: Agentic Evolution of Hybrid Solver-Augmented Heuristics for Time-Critical Mathematical Optimization
Sep 28, 2026Feijie Wu, Hugo Barbalho, Konstantina Mellou +5Automated Heuristic Design Heuristics
Purdue University · Microsoft Research
Automatic Harness Evolution for Hardware Design Verification: Can LLMs Consolidate Gains Across Discovered Harnesses?
Sep 24, 2026Kidus Seyoum, Ajay MitturAutomated Heuristic Design Deterministic Replay
NVIDIA
Online Automated Algorithm Design with Large Language Models
Sep 21, 2026Zhiyao Zhang, Yichen Li, Xingyu Wu +2Automated Heuristic Design Bayesian Optimization
Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China · College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
RouteRepair: Instance-Level Failure Diagnosis and Targeted Repair in LLM-Based Automated Heuristic Design for Routing Optimization
Sep 12, 2026Binghao Ji, Di Huang, Jiahui Fang +1Vehicle Routing Problem Automated Heuristic Design
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 211189.
LLM-based Hardware Development with Hierarchical IRs and End-to-End Multi-Agent Workflow
Aug 31, 2026Chenyang Yin, Agasthi Haputhanthri, Aditya Anirudh Jonnalagadda +7High-Level Synthesis Edge Hardware
National University of Singapore · Shandong University · Stanford University +1
LLM-Guided Heuristic Design from Simulation Traces: A Case Study in Dynamic Production and AGV Scheduling
Aug 10, 2026Jinbo Li, Chuanhao LiAutomated Heuristic Design Agentic Optimization
Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University
AutoSND: From Execution Evidence to Structural Policies for Automated Network Dismantling Heuristic Discovery
Aug 4, 2026Zhijing Hu, Changjun Fan, Yufan Deng +1Network Science Automated Heuristic Design
College of Systems Engineering, National University of Defense Technology Changsha, China · School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University Singapore
MuEvo: LLM-Driven Evolution of Multi-Heuristic Ensemble
Aug 4, 2026Haoze Lv, Ning Lu, Shengcai Liu +2Automated Heuristic Design Multi-Agent Evolution
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Computation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
DGA $_2$ D: Directed Graph-Guided Automated Algorithm Design with Large Language Models
Aug 1, 2026Jiale Zhao, Zimu Chen, Sirui Mao +3Automated Heuristic Design Combinatorial Optimization
School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
MOSAIC: Adversarial Co-evolution of Specialist Heuristics and Problem Instances for LLM-based Automated Heuristic Design
Jul 31, 2026Oguzhan Gungordu, Siheng Xiong, Faramarz FekriAutomated Heuristic Design Heuristics
Georgia Institute of Technology
LLM-Guided Evolutionary Search for Constraint Model Reformulation to Improve Solver Efficiency
Jul 30, 2026Kostis Michailidis, Dimos Tsouros, Nguyen Dang +1Evolutionary Search Automated Heuristic Design
1DTAI, KU Leuven, Belgium · University of Western Macedonia, Greece · University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
SpecAHD: Localize to Specialize for Automated Heuristic Design in Large-Scale Routing Problems
Jul 26, 2026Kezhao Lai, Yutao Lai, Hai-Lin LiuAutomated Heuristic Design Vehicle Routing Problem
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Search Hardness-Aware LLM-Based Problem Formulation for Expensive Simulation-Driven Design
Jul 23, 2026Yuchen Li, Handing Wang, Bing Xue +1Automated Heuristic Design Hard
School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, China · School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
EvoDRC: A Self-Evolving Agentic Framework for Automated DRC Violation Repair
Jul 22, 2026Bing-Yue Wu, Chia-Tung Ho, Haoyu Yang +2Electronic Design Automation Automated Heuristic Design
Arizona State University · NVIDIA Corporation
How to Guide LLM Generation: Dual-Surrogate Guided Search for Automated Heuristic Design
Jul 15, 2026Yuhan Wang, Chaoda Peng, Xingyu Wu +2Automated Heuristic Design Artificial Intelligence Search
College of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University · Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University
RefineEvo: Planning-Guided Heuristic Evolution with Bidirectional Experience
Jul 13, 2026Yang Wu, Junran Pan, Yifan Zhang +3Automated Heuristic Design Evolutionary Search
C2DL, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing +1
QDEvo: A Multi-Objective Quality-Diversity Framework for Automated Heuristic Design
Jul 6, 2026Nam Do Khanh, Nhat Nguyen Tran Minh, Dat Pham Vu Tuan +2Automated Heuristic Design Multi-Objective Optimization
Hanoi University of Science and Technology Hanoi, Vietnam · George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia, USA
RAISE: LLM-based Automated Heuristic Design with Robust Adversary Instance Search
Jun 30, 2026Fei Liu, Alessio Figalli, Patrick Owen +1Automated Heuristic Design Bounded Adversary
University of Zurich · 2ETH Zurich
AlgoSkill: Learning to Design Algorithms by Scheduling Human-Like Skills
Jun 29, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun Cai, Liang ZhaoAutomated Heuristic Design Llm-Driven Code Synthesis
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA · The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · LocationMind, Tokyo, Japan
Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution
Jun 26, 2026Cunxi Yu, Chenhui Deng, Nathaniel Pinckney +1Self-Evolving Agents Repository-Level Code Understanding
NVIDIA Research
AgentDSE: Reasoning-Augmented Architectural Design Space Exploration
Jun 20, 2026Chenyu Wang, Jiahe Caroline Shi, David Kong +4Automated Heuristic Design Neural Architecture Search
Harvard University · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Columbia University
MeEvo: Metacognitive Evolution Combined with Natural Evolution for Automatic Heuristic Design
Jun 12, 2026Zishang Qiu, Xinan Chen, Rong Qu +1Automated Heuristic Design Evolutionary Search
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China · School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
ROSUM-MCTS: Monte Carlo Tree Search-Inspired HDL Code Summarization with Structural Rewards
Jun 6, 2026Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Charles Mackin, Luyao Shi +6High-Level Synthesis Edge Hardware
IBM Research San Jose, CA, USA
LLM-Driven Co-Evolutionary Automated Heuristic Design for Bi-Component Coupled Combinatorial Optimization
May 30, 2026Mingen Kuang, Xudong Deng, Xi Lin +3Automated Heuristic Design Evolutionary Search
Xi’an Jiao Tong University · Northwestern Polytechnical University
Model-Native Computing Architecture: Envisioning Future System Architecture Through the Lens of Computer Architecture
May 29, 2026Hai Lin, Hoilam Pao, Shaoxiong Zhan +1Hardware Efficiency Automated Heuristic Design
Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University · Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
Latent Heuristic Search: Continuous Optimization for Automated Algorithm Design
May 16, 2026Cheikh Ahmed, Mahdi Mostajabdaveh, Zirui ZhouAutomated Heuristic Design Evolutionary Search
Huawei Technologies Canada, Burnaby, Canada
A3D: Agentic AI flow for autonomous Accelerator Design
May 14, 2026Abinand Nallathambi, Christopher Knight, Shantanu Ganguly +2Automated Heuristic Design High-Level Synthesis
Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN, USA · Argonne National Laboratory +4
Teacher-Aware Evolution of Heuristic Programs from Learned Optimization Policies
May 11, 2026Minyu Chen, Song Qin, Ling-I Wu +2Automated Heuristic Design Evolutionary Search
Shenzhen Technology University · Shanghai Polytechnic University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Budget-Efficient Automatic Algorithm Design via Code Graph
May 11, 2026Maxime Bouscary, Manxi Wu, Saurabh AminAutomated Heuristic Design Search Algorithms
Operations Research Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley · Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AHD Agent: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Heuristic Design
May 9, 2026Haoze Lv, Ning Lu, Ziang Zhou +1Automated Heuristic Design Agentic Optimization
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Computation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology · Zhongguancun Academy · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
HMACE: Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Collaborative Evolution for Combinatorial Optimization
May 8, 2026Yuping Yan, Jirui Han, Fei Ming +2Automated Heuristic Design Multi-Agent Evolution
School of Engineering Westlake University
CoupleEvo: Evolving Heuristics for Coupled Optimization Problems Using Large Language Models
May 7, 2026Thomas Bömer, Bastian Amberg, Max Disselnmeyer +1Automated Heuristic Design Evolutionary Search
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany
Back to the Beginning of Heuristic Design: Bridging Code and Knowledge with LLMs
May 7, 2026Nguyen Viet Tuan Kiet, Bui Dinh Pham, Dao Van Tung +2Automated Heuristic Design High-Level Source Code
Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam · University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Automated Large-scale CVRP Solver Design via LLM-assisted Flexible MCTS
May 5, 2026Tong Guo, Caishun Chen, Yew Soon OngVehicle Routing Problem Automated Heuristic Design
College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Agentic Architect: An Agentic AI Framework for Architecture Design Exploration and Optimization
Apr 28, 2026Alexander Blasberg, Vasilis Kypriotis, Dimitrios SkarlatosHardware Efficiency Automated Heuristic Design
Carnegie Mellon University
A2DEPT: Large Language Model-Driven Automated Algorithm Design via Evolutionary Program Trees
Apr 27, 2026Bin Chen, Shouliang Zhu, Beidan Liu +4Automated Heuristic Design Functional Code Solvers
The Institute of Intelligent Computing, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China · College of Systems Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China · Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing 100071, China
HYPERHEURIST: A Simulated Annealing-Based Control Framework for LLM-Driven Code Generation in Optimized Hardware Design
Apr 17, 2026Shiva Ahir, Prajna Bhat, Alex DoboliRegister Transfer Level Automated Heuristic Design
Department of ECE
Leveraging High-Level Synthesis and Large Language Models to Generate, Simulate, and Deploy a Uniform Random Number Generator Hardware Design
Nov 6, 2023James T. MeechHigh-Level Synthesis Large Language Model Generation
University of Cambridge
A Lightweight Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Concrete Barrier Design
Date pendingWanting Wang, Xiye Ma, Yuyang He +1Engineering Automated Heuristic Design
College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

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TRACE: Tackling Real-World Resource Assignment Problems via Agentic Heuristic Design

Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Perez

NEC Laboratories Europe · i2CAT Foundation and ICREA

Automated Heuristic Design Repair-Assignment Problem Heuristics Traces Synthetic Benchmark

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Dynamic resource assignment, the real-time allocation of task streams to heterogeneous processing nodes, is the backbone of modern computing infrastructure. While learning-based schedulers excel in research, industrial deployments still rely on hand-written rules that operators can read, audit, and execute within tight latency budgets. LLM-based Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD) promises to automate writing such rules. However, existing AHD frameworks were developed for combinatorial problems fully specified to the LLM, and they learn only from a scalar fitness score. In real systems, the behaviour that determines a good heuristic, such as processor speeds or power consumption, is unknown a priori: the score reveals which heuristic performs better, but not why. This missing information is recorded in the system logs that every evaluation produces. Exploiting it is non-trivial: logs are massive and noisy, the relevant signals depend on the objective, and their content and format vary across hardware and software stacks, so they can neither be fed to an LLM as is nor processed by a fixed parser. We propose TRACE, which couples an evolutionary AHD loop with an agentic knowledge-extraction workflow. A Reasoner agent analyzes the log schema in light of the objective and formulates hypotheses about the system dynamics; a Coder agent writes and executes schema-specific code to test them, producing insights or executable tools for the evolved heuristics. We evaluate TRACE on a synthetic cloud benchmark and a 5G vRAN scenario built from industrial testbed measurements and operational traffic traces. TRACE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art AHD methods in resource assignment problems and yields more auditable heuristics at under 2% overhead.

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