Guillem Rodríguez-Corominas

From Hand-Crafted to LLM-Based Variation Operators in Metaheuristics: A Tutorial

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being employed as variation operators in metaheuristics, generating or modifying candidate solutions, heuristics, or programs inside iterative search loops. This shift reframes variation as a model call conditioned on different types of information. We introduce an operator...