arxivcs.NE2026-07-15
How to Guide LLM Generation: Dual-Surrogate Guided Search for Automated Heuristic Design
Yuhan Wang, Chaoda Peng, Xingyu Wu, Sheng-Hao Wu, Zhi-Hui Zhan
Large language models (LLMs) have made automated heuristic design (AHD) increasingly practical by generating executable heuristic code from task descriptions and evaluator feedback. Yet under a limited query and evaluation budget, search efficiency depends critically on a pre-gen…