AutoOR: Scalably Post-training LLMs to Autoformulate Operations Research Problems
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arXiv:2604.16804v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimization problems are central to decision-making in manufacturing, logistics, scheduling, and other industrial settings. Translating complicated descriptions of these problems into solver-ready formulations requires specialized operations research (OR) expertise, making it hard to scale. We present AutoOR, a scalable synthetic data generation and reinforcement learning pipeline that trains LLMs to autoformulate optimization problems specified in natural language across linear, mixed-integer, and non-linear categories. AutoOR generat
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- arXiv:2604.16804v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimization problems are central to decision-making in manufacturing, logistics, scheduling, and other industrial settings.
- Translating complicated descriptions of these problems into solver-ready formulations requires specialized operations research (OR) expertise, making it hard to scale.
- We present AutoOR, a scalable synthetic data generation and reinforcement learning pipeline that trains LLMs to autoformulate optimization problems specified in natural language across linear, mixed-integer, and non-linear categories.
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