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  1. Beyond LLM-GA: Secure Fluid Antenna Systems with ReEvo-Designed Memetic Algorithm

    Oct 7, 2026Hanyong Xu, Zhaolai Dang, Tong ZhangWireless CommunicationsMetaheuristic Optimization

    School of Information, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518055, China · Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aerospace Communication and Networking Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China

  2. GeoNest: Learning to Select Failure-Aware Neighborhoods for the Irregular Knapsack Problem in a Circular Container

    Sep 30, 2026Zhongman Du, Huiming Zhang, Linlin Yang +2Metaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    Beihang University, Beijing, China · Communication University of China, Beijing, China · Hangzhou Innovation Institute of Beihang University, Hangzhou, China

  3. Adaptive Rotation for iSOMA: Geometry, Benchmarking, and Noise Robustness in Variational Quantum Objectives

    Sep 29, 2026Vojtěch Novák, Ivan ZelinkaStochastic OptimizationBlack-Box Optimization

    Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic. · IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, 708 00, Czech Republic. · Department of Informatics and Statistics, Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University, Klaipeda, Lithuania.

  4. CMDO: A Cognitive Memory-Driven Optimization Algorithm for Adaptive Population-Based Search

    Sep 28, 2026Mohammed Yusuf Mujawar, Shahram Rahimi, Noorbakhsh Amiri GolilarzEvolutionary OptimizationBlack-Box Optimization

    Department of Computer Science The University of Alabama, AL, USA

  5. DCL-GPGLS: Dynamic Curriculum Learning for Genetic Programming Guided Local Search in Large-Scale Vehicle Routing

    Sep 21, 2026Saining Liu, Yi Mei, Mengjie ZhangMetaheuristic OptimizationGenetic Programming

    School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  6. Genetic Programming with Behaviour-based Niching for Learning Guided Local Search in Vehicle Routing Problems

    Sep 21, 2026Saining Liu, Yi Mei, Mengjie ZhangAutomated Heuristic DesignMetaheuristic Optimization

    School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  7. A Metaheuristic Optimization Framework for Discrete Optimization under Strict Time Limits

    Sep 16, 2026Umut Çalıkyılmaz, Nitin Nayak, Sven GroppeMetaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany · TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

  8. Learning to Optimize UAV Path Planning for Data Sensing in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Sep 15, 2026Sijie Ma, Zeyuan Ma, Weijia Cao +4Robotic Data CollectionMetaheuristic Optimization

    South China University of Technology · South China Normal University · Information Research Institute, CAS +2

  9. Learning-Augmented Optimization for Strategic Two-Echelon Spare Parts Network Design

    Sep 14, 2026Donato Maragno, Marco Caserta, Alberto Sinigaglia +3Surrogate-Assisted OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Amazon RME · IE University, Department of Operations · Reinforcement Learning Research Lab, UniPD

  10. MAAPO:an innovative membrane algorithm based on artificial protozoa optimizer for multilevel threshold image segmentation

    Sep 14, 2026Xiaopeng Wang, Vaclav Snasel, Seyedali Mirjalili +1Metaheuristic Optimization

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic · Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimisation, Torrens University Australia, Brisbane, Australia · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

  11. 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 +1Automated Program RepairAutomated 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.

  12. frb100-40 After Two Decades: An Optimality Certificate and a Preregistered Search Study

    Sep 2, 2026Onur UğurluCombinatorial OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    İzmir Bakırçay University

  13. Implicit Q-learning-bootstrapped ant colony optimization for maritime moving-target observation scheduling with agile satellites

    Aug 25, 2026He Wang, Junyu Wu, Yeye Liu +5Metaheuristic OptimizationLearning to Optimize

    College of Intelligent Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China · School of Electrical and Control Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China · School of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China

  14. Mycelial Search: A Graph-Structured Metaheuristic for Continuous Optimisation

    Aug 24, 2026Mohammad Mahdi DehshibiMetaheuristic OptimizationIsing Optimization

  15. LLM-Guided Graph Generation for Structure-Based Local Improvement Methods

    Aug 13, 2026Hai Xia, Vaidyanathan Peruvemba Ramaswamy, Stefan SzeiderAutomated Heuristic DesignMetaheuristic Optimization

    Algorithms and Complexity Group, TU Wien, Austria

  16. Large-scale Testing Global Optimization Methods with Black-box Adversarial Attacks

    Aug 13, 2026Wojciech Zarzecki, Jarosław ArabasEvolutionary OptimizationBenchmark Design

    Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Computer Science

  17. Scalable High-Fidelity Macromolecular Docking for GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers

    Aug 7, 2026Xiangyu Meng, Peng Chen, Mingzhen Li +7GPU Kernel OptimizationGPU Acceleration

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Oil & Gas Industrial Software, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China · A*STAR Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing, Singapore · RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan +2

  18. Linear Proposal Operators and Stochastic Search Geometry in SOMA and Differential Evolution

    Jul 31, 2026Vojtěch Novák, Ivan ZelinkaDifferential EvolutionEvolutionary Optimization

    Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic · IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, 708 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic · Department of Informatics and Statistics, Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University, Lithuania

  19. LM-GRASP: Instance-Specific Language Models for Combinatorial Construction via Online Imitation Learning

    Jul 30, 2026Mohand Mezmaz, Grégoire DanoyMetaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    SnT, University of Luxembourg

  20. Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Neighborhood Search for Arrival-Departure Track Utilization Adjustment under Short-Term Disturbances

    Jul 27, 2026Xiaobin Li, Wuming Lei, Yanbin Gao +1Evolutionary OptimizationIntelligent Transportation Systems

    School of Transportation Engineering East China Jiaotong University Nanchang, Jiangxi 330038, China

  21. KAYROS: An Anytime and Exact Open-Source Solver for Duration-Minimization Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing. A Technical Report and a Case Study in Human-AI Engineering

    Jul 25, 2026Florian RascoussierMetaheuristic OptimizationVehicle Routing

    IMT Atlantique, Lab-STICC, CNRS, UMR 6285 (équipe DECIDE) and INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, UR3720, 69621 Villeurbanne, France.

  22. MEMENTO: Memory-Guided Memetic Code-as-Policy Evolution

    Jul 24, 2026Alkis Sygkounas, Victor Aregbede, Amy Loutfi +1Metaheuristic OptimizationLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

    Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Örebro University, Sweden · Örebro University, 70281 Örebro, Sweden · Linköing University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden

  23. On the Runtime Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Hyper-Heuristics

    Jul 24, 2026Pietro S. Oliveto, Zhenyu Wang, Peizhou Wu +1Reinforcement LearningAutomated Heuristic Design

    Southern University of Science and Technology, 518055 Shenzhen, China

  24. When Is Heterogeneous Distance-Decay Facility Location Tractable? A Structural Classification, Exact Methods, and a Real-World Study

    Jul 18, 2026Zhou He, T. C. E. Cheng, Jichang DongMetaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, N606-3, #3 Zhongguancun Nanyitiao, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China · Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 11 Yuk Choi Rd, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, China

  25. Transformer-Guided Swarm Intelligence for Frugal Neural Architecture Search

    Jul 13, 2026Romain AmigonMetaheuristic OptimizationNeural Architecture Search

    Universit´e du Qu´ebec `a Chicoutimi (UQAC) Saguenay, Canada

  26. Embark Now: User Demand Oriented Framework for Multi-day Urban Travel Itinerary Planning

    Jul 12, 2026Rongbo Qi, Yaqi Zhang, Shijun Yan +3Metaheuristic Optimization

    College of Computer Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, Tianjin, China. · Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, Jiangxi, China. · College of Software, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, Tianjin, China.

  27. POO-LPSP: Parallel Osprey Optimized Least Penalty-Squared Prioritization Methods for Priority Derivation in the Analytic Hierarchy Process

    Jul 8, 2026Kevin Kam Fung YuenMetaheuristic OptimizationMulti-Criteria Decision Analysis

    School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Sunway, Malaysia

  28. 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 Algorithm DiscoveryAutomated Heuristic Design

    Hanoi University of Science and Technology Hanoi, Vietnam · George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia, USA

  29. Robust Metaheuristics under Uncertainty for Berth Allocation and Quay Crane Assignment: A Review

    Jul 6, 2026Peilan Xu, Yang Li, Wenjian LuoMetaheuristic OptimizationDecision-Making under Uncertainty

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China · Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Novel Security Intelligence Technologies, Institute of Cyberspace Security, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, Guangdong, China

  30. A Policy Decomposition Framework for Dynamic Order Fulfillment Operations

    Jul 4, 2026Gal Neria, Michal Tzur, Marlin W. UlmerMetaheuristic OptimizationSupply Chain Management

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, MA, USA · School of Industrial and Intelligent Systems Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel · Otto-von-Guericke Universitat Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

  31. Hybridizing a Grouping Metaheuristic with Reinforcement Learning for the One-Dimensional Bin Packing Problem

    Jul 2, 2026Zitouni Rania, Mostefai Mounir Sofiane, Tati Youcef +3Metaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    Square Two Team – Optimization Module, École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique (ESI), Algiers, Algeria

  32. Mechanism and Stability Analysis of Metabolic Closed-Loop Metaheuristics

    Jul 2, 2026Jinliang Xu, Liping MaMulti-Agent System OptimizationAlgorithmic Stability

    independent researcher in Beijing, China

  33. MMAO-Dyn: A Metabolic Multi-Agent Optimizer for Dynamic Optimization

    Jul 1, 2026Jinliang Xu, Liping MaMulti-Agent System OptimizationBlack-Box Optimization

    Jinliang Xu is an independent researcher in Beijing, China · Liping Ma is with the Department of Disease Control and Prevention, The Seventh Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

  34. A Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation of MMAO Under Fair-Budget Continuous and Discrete Benchmarks

    Jun 30, 2026Jinliang Xu, Liping MaMulti-Agent System OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Jinliang Xu is with the current study team · Department of Disease Control and Prevention, The Seventh Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

  35. Minimal MMAO: A Resource-Closed-Loop Framework for Adaptive Metaheuristic Search

    Jun 29, 2026Jinliang Xu, Liping MaMulti-Agent System OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Department of Disease Control and Prevention, The Seventh Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

  36. Analysis of Parameter Settings for the Bat Algorithm Using Variance Evolution

    Jun 26, 2026Xin-She Yang, Mehmet KaramanogluExploration-Exploitation TradeoffEvolutionary Optimization

    Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, London NW4 4BT, United Kingdom.

  37. MMAO: A Metabolic Multi-Agent Optimizer with Endogenous Resource Allocation for Continuous and Discrete Optimization

    Jun 26, 2026Jinliang Xu, Liping MaMulti-Agent System OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Department of Disease Control and Prevention, The Seventh Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

  38. Random Walk on Bézier Curves for Global Optimization

    Jun 25, 2026Jinpeng Wang, Xingguo Xu, Yujing Sun +3Stochastic OptimizationEvolutionary Optimization

    aSchool of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710129, China · bSchool of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China · cSchool of Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230601, China +3

  39. \chisao{}: A GPU-Native Parallel Optimizer for Multimodal Black-Box Functions via Convergence-Anticonvergence Oscillation

    Jun 24, 2026Ira WolfsonGPU AccelerationBlack-Box Optimization

    Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering Braude College of Engineering, Karmiel, Israel

  40. RACL: Reasoning-Agent Control Layers for Continuous Metaheuristic Learning

    Jun 18, 2026Antón Asla ManzárragaMetaheuristic OptimizationAlgorithmic Reasoning

    Independent Researcher

  41. A Tool for the Synthesis of Adaptive Probabilistic Processors Based on the Ising Model

    Jun 17, 2026Jonathan Juracy Carneiro da Silva, Leonardo R. Gobatto, Jose Rodrigo AzambujaAlgorithm SelectionMetaheuristic Optimization

    Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) – Institute of Informatics – PGMicro, Porto Alegre, Brazil · Center for Embedded Devices and Research in Digital Agriculture (CEDRA), S˜ao Leopoldo, Brazil

  42. Large Language Model-Driven Cooperative Operator Ensemble Evolution for Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling

    Jun 13, 2026Rui Xu, Yufan Liao, Haoze Lv +3Evolutionary OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    School of Business, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China · Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Intelligent Computation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China · School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

  43. ZIVARI-TLBO: A Zero-Cost Inter-Group Evaluated-Elite Relay Mechanism for Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization

    Jun 12, 2026Pezhman ZivariEvolutionary OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Independent Researcher, Istanbul, Türkiye

  44. Operator Calculus for Population-Based Optimization: Modular Convergence and Finite-Population Guarantees

    Jun 12, 2026Pekka Malo, Lauri Viitasaari, Patrik Nummi +3Evolutionary OptimizationOptimization Convergence Analysis

    Aalto University, Department of Information and Service Management, Finland. · Aalto University, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Finland. · Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Operations and Decision Sciences, India. +1

  45. Hybrid Metaheuristic Combining the Dragonfly Algorithm and Tabu Search for the Traveling Salesman Problem

    Jun 8, 2026Ammar BoukettaTraveling Salesperson ProblemMetaheuristic Optimization

    Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Informatique (ESI), Algiers, Algeria

  46. Trajectory Optimization in Single and Dual-UAV Bearing-Only Target Localization

    Jun 8, 2026Zhijian Xiao, Huayu Huang, Bin Li +2Trajectory OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China · Hunan Key Laboratory of Image Measurement and Visual Navigation, Changsha 410073, China

  47. Gray-Box Optimization and the Vertex Coloring Problem

    Jun 6, 2026Johanna Gasse, Antonia Heinen, Hendrik Higl +1Evolutionary OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Hasso Plattner Institute University of Potsdam Potsdam, Germany

  48. The Whale That Outswam Evolution: Swarm Intelligence Maximises Memory in Connectome Reservoirs

    Jun 5, 2026Anmol Guragain, Savvas Kakalis, Juan Ignacio Godino-LlorenteMetaheuristic OptimizationReservoir Computing

    ETSI de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  49. A Study of Parallel Continuous Local Search

    Jun 4, 2026Cody J Christopher, Charles GrettonMetaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    School of Computing, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

  50. Hub-Aware Hybrid Search: Accelerating the Locally Aligned Ant Technique

    Jun 4, 2026Simone Vilardi, Reynier Peletier, Felipe Contreras +1Metaheuristic OptimizationPoint Cloud Understanding

    University of Groningen - Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence · University of Groningen - Kapteyn Astronomical Institute · Instituto de F´ısica y Astronom´ıa, Universidad de Valpara´ıso

  51. Multi-Column RBF Neural Network Using Adaptive and Non-Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization

    Jun 3, 2026Ammar Hoori, Yuichi MotaiMetaheuristic OptimizationNeural Network Optimization

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA

  52. Beyond Static Priors: Dynamic Neural Guidance for Large-Scale Ant Colony Optimization

    Jun 2, 2026Dat Thanh Tran, Van Khu Vu, Yining MaTraveling Salesperson ProblemMetaheuristic Optimization

    Center for AI Research VinUniversity Hanoi, Vietnam · College of Engineering and Computer Science VinUniversity Hanoi, Vietnam · Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA

  53. Regularized Large Neighborhood Search

    Jun 1, 2026Germain Vivier-Ardisson, Laurent Demonet, Axel Parmentier +1Markov Chain Monte CarloMetaheuristic Optimization

    Google DeepMind & CERMICS · Google Research · CERMICS, ENPC, CNRS, IPP +1

  54. LLM-Driven Co-Evolutionary Automated Heuristic Design for Bi-Component Coupled Combinatorial Optimization

    May 30, 2026Mingen Kuang, Xudong Deng, Xi Lin +3Automated Heuristic DesignEvolutionary Optimization

    Xi’an Jiao Tong University · Northwestern Polytechnical University

  55. Developing a novel Comorbidities Index for predicting 10-year mortality in Prostate Cancer patients: A computational data-driven approach

    May 29, 2026Davide Farinati, Francesco Barletta, Paolo Zaurito +6Cancer Survival PredictionMetaheuristic Optimization

    Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy Comprehensive Cancer Center/Unit of Urology; URI; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy · School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK · Department of Urology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

  56. Selection Hyper-heuristics Can Automatically Adjust the Learning Period to Optimally Solve Pseudo-Boolean Problems

    May 28, 2026Benjamin Doerr, Pietro S. Oliveto, John Alasdair WarwickerMetaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    Laboratoire d’Informatique (LIX), CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris,2026 Palaiseau, 91120, France · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China · School of Computing & Communications, Lancaster University Leipzig, Leipzig, 04109, Germany

  57. Designing Active Tether-Net Systems for Space Debris Capture with Graph-Learning-Aided Mixed-Combinatorial Optimization

    May 27, 2026Feng Liu, Achira Boonrath, Gishnu Madhu +2Metaheuristic OptimizationNonconvex Optimization

    University at Buffalo Buffalo, New York, 14260

  58. An Enhanced Large Neighborhood Search Approach for the Capacitated Facility Location Problem with Incompatible Customers

    May 27, 2026Ida Gjergji, Lucas Kletzander, Nysret Musliu +1Metaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    DBAI, TU Wien, Austria · University of Udine, Italy

  59. Anarchy in the swarm: Testing informed and uninformed diversity-enhancing mechanisms within PSO framework

    May 24, 2026Piotr Urbańczyk, Aleksandra UrbańczykMetaheuristic OptimizationParticle Swarm Optimization

    AGH University of Krakow, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland · Jagiellonian University, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

  60. Accelerating ground state search of spatial photonic Ising machines with genetic-simulated annealing hybrid algorithm

    May 22, 2026Ze Zheng, Ruhui Ni, Jingyi Zhao +6Metaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    Institute for Quantum Sensing and Information Processing, State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · 4Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, Anhui, China · Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China +2