Towards Optimizing with Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Guo, Pei-Fu, Chen, Ying-Hsuan, Tsai, Yun-Da, Lin, Shou-De
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author Guo, Pei-Fu
Chen, Ying-Hsuan
Tsai, Yun-Da
Lin, Shou-De
author_facet Guo, Pei-Fu
Chen, Ying-Hsuan
Tsai, Yun-Da
Lin, Shou-De
contents In this work, we conduct an assessment of the optimization capabilities of LLMs across various tasks and data sizes. Each of these tasks corresponds to unique optimization domains, and LLMs are required to execute these tasks with interactive prompting. That is, in each optimization step, the LLM generates new solutions from the past generated solutions with their values, and then the new solutions are evaluated and considered in the next optimization step. Additionally, we introduce three distinct metrics for a comprehensive assessment of task performance from various perspectives. These metrics offer the advantage of being applicable for evaluating LLM performance across a broad spectrum of optimization tasks and are less sensitive to variations in test samples. By applying these metrics, we observe that LLMs exhibit strong optimization capabilities when dealing with small-sized samples. However, their performance is significantly influenced by factors like data size and values, underscoring the importance of further research in the domain of optimization tasks for LLMs.
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spellingShingle Towards Optimizing with Large Language Models
Guo, Pei-Fu
Chen, Ying-Hsuan
Tsai, Yun-Da
Lin, Shou-De
Machine Learning
In this work, we conduct an assessment of the optimization capabilities of LLMs across various tasks and data sizes. Each of these tasks corresponds to unique optimization domains, and LLMs are required to execute these tasks with interactive prompting. That is, in each optimization step, the LLM generates new solutions from the past generated solutions with their values, and then the new solutions are evaluated and considered in the next optimization step. Additionally, we introduce three distinct metrics for a comprehensive assessment of task performance from various perspectives. These metrics offer the advantage of being applicable for evaluating LLM performance across a broad spectrum of optimization tasks and are less sensitive to variations in test samples. By applying these metrics, we observe that LLMs exhibit strong optimization capabilities when dealing with small-sized samples. However, their performance is significantly influenced by factors like data size and values, underscoring the importance of further research in the domain of optimization tasks for LLMs.
title Towards Optimizing with Large Language Models
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05204