Constructing Industrial-Scale Optimization Modeling Benchmark

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Autores principales: Li, Zhong, Lu, Hongliang, Wei, Tao, Chen, Yuxuan, Liu, Wenyu, Lan, Yuan, Zhang, Fan, Wen, Zaiwen
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author Li, Zhong
Lu, Hongliang
Wei, Tao
Chen, Yuxuan
Liu, Wenyu
Lan, Yuan
Zhang, Fan
Wen, Zaiwen
author_facet Li, Zhong
Lu, Hongliang
Wei, Tao
Chen, Yuxuan
Liu, Wenyu
Lan, Yuan
Zhang, Fan
Wen, Zaiwen
contents Optimization modeling underpins decision-making in logistics, manufacturing, energy, and finance, yet translating natural-language requirements into correct optimization formulations and solver-executable code remains labor-intensive. Although large language models (LLMs) have been explored for this task, evaluation is still dominated by toy-sized or synthetic benchmarks, masking the difficulty of industrial problems with $10^{3}$--$10^{6}$ (or more) variables and constraints. A key bottleneck is the lack of benchmarks that align natural-language specifications with reference formulations/solver code grounded in real optimization models. To fill in this gap, we introduce MIPLIB-NL, built via a structure-aware reverse construction methodology from real mixed-integer linear programs in MIPLIB~2017. Our pipeline (i) recovers compact, reusable model structure from flat solver formulations, (ii) reverse-generates natural-language specifications explicitly tied to this recovered structure under a unified model--data separation format, and (iii) performs iterative semantic validation through expert review and human--LLM interaction with independent reconstruction checks. This yields 223 one-to-one reconstructions that preserve the mathematical content of the original instances while enabling realistic natural-language-to-optimization evaluation. Experiments show substantial performance degradation on MIPLIB-NL for systems that perform strongly on existing benchmarks, exposing failure modes invisible at toy scale.
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spellingShingle Constructing Industrial-Scale Optimization Modeling Benchmark
Li, Zhong
Lu, Hongliang
Wei, Tao
Chen, Yuxuan
Liu, Wenyu
Lan, Yuan
Zhang, Fan
Wen, Zaiwen
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Optimization and Control
Optimization modeling underpins decision-making in logistics, manufacturing, energy, and finance, yet translating natural-language requirements into correct optimization formulations and solver-executable code remains labor-intensive. Although large language models (LLMs) have been explored for this task, evaluation is still dominated by toy-sized or synthetic benchmarks, masking the difficulty of industrial problems with $10^{3}$--$10^{6}$ (or more) variables and constraints. A key bottleneck is the lack of benchmarks that align natural-language specifications with reference formulations/solver code grounded in real optimization models. To fill in this gap, we introduce MIPLIB-NL, built via a structure-aware reverse construction methodology from real mixed-integer linear programs in MIPLIB~2017. Our pipeline (i) recovers compact, reusable model structure from flat solver formulations, (ii) reverse-generates natural-language specifications explicitly tied to this recovered structure under a unified model--data separation format, and (iii) performs iterative semantic validation through expert review and human--LLM interaction with independent reconstruction checks. This yields 223 one-to-one reconstructions that preserve the mathematical content of the original instances while enabling realistic natural-language-to-optimization evaluation. Experiments show substantial performance degradation on MIPLIB-NL for systems that perform strongly on existing benchmarks, exposing failure modes invisible at toy scale.
title Constructing Industrial-Scale Optimization Modeling Benchmark
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10450