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Main Authors: Zhao, Ruiqing, Li, Fengzhi, Zuo, Yuan, Liu, Rui, Liu, Yansong, Ma, Yunfei, Meng, Fanyu, Feng, Junlan
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02545
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author Zhao, Ruiqing
Li, Fengzhi
Zuo, Yuan
Liu, Rui
Liu, Yansong
Ma, Yunfei
Meng, Fanyu
Feng, Junlan
author_facet Zhao, Ruiqing
Li, Fengzhi
Zuo, Yuan
Liu, Rui
Liu, Yansong
Ma, Yunfei
Meng, Fanyu
Feng, Junlan
contents Large language models (LLMs) can generate syntactically valid optimization programs, yet often struggle to reliably choose an effective modeling strategy, leading to incorrect formulations and inefficient solver behavior. We propose SAGE, a strategy-aware framework that makes Modeling Strategy explicit in both data construction and post-training. SAGE builds a solver-verified multi-strategy dataset and trains a student model with supervised fine-tuning followed by Segment-Weighted GRPO using a composite reward over format compliance, correctness, and solver efficiency. Across eight benchmarks spanning synthetic and real-world settings, SAGE improves average pass@1 from 72.7 to 80.3 over the strongest open-source baseline. With multiple generations, SAGE discovers more distinct correct formulations and improves component-level diversity at pass@16 by 19-29%. At the largest scale, SAGE produces more compact constraint systems with 14.2% fewer constraints than the baseline, consistent with solver-efficient modeling. Overall, these results show that making Modeling Strategy explicit improves automated optimization modeling. Code is available at https://github.com/rachhhhing/SAGE.
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spellingShingle Strategy-Aware Optimization Modeling with Reasoning LLMs
Zhao, Ruiqing
Li, Fengzhi
Zuo, Yuan
Liu, Rui
Liu, Yansong
Ma, Yunfei
Meng, Fanyu
Feng, Junlan
Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) can generate syntactically valid optimization programs, yet often struggle to reliably choose an effective modeling strategy, leading to incorrect formulations and inefficient solver behavior. We propose SAGE, a strategy-aware framework that makes Modeling Strategy explicit in both data construction and post-training. SAGE builds a solver-verified multi-strategy dataset and trains a student model with supervised fine-tuning followed by Segment-Weighted GRPO using a composite reward over format compliance, correctness, and solver efficiency. Across eight benchmarks spanning synthetic and real-world settings, SAGE improves average pass@1 from 72.7 to 80.3 over the strongest open-source baseline. With multiple generations, SAGE discovers more distinct correct formulations and improves component-level diversity at pass@16 by 19-29%. At the largest scale, SAGE produces more compact constraint systems with 14.2% fewer constraints than the baseline, consistent with solver-efficient modeling. Overall, these results show that making Modeling Strategy explicit improves automated optimization modeling. Code is available at https://github.com/rachhhhing/SAGE.
title Strategy-Aware Optimization Modeling with Reasoning LLMs
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02545