OptSkills: Learning Generalizable Optimization Skills from Problem Archetypes via Cluster-Based Distillation

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Autores principales: Yang, Haochen, Zhao, Ke, Ma, Mengyuan, Lu, Xingyu, Wang, Xiangfeng, Qian, Hong
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author Yang, Haochen
Zhao, Ke
Ma, Mengyuan
Lu, Xingyu
Wang, Xiangfeng
Qian, Hong
author_facet Yang, Haochen
Zhao, Ke
Ma, Mengyuan
Lu, Xingyu
Wang, Xiangfeng
Qian, Hong
contents Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically formulate and solve optimization problems from natural language has emerged as an efficient paradigm for automated optimization. However, existing methods still exhibit limited generalization: they are sensitive to superficial narrative variations, reuse experience mainly at the case level, and struggle to adapt to shifted or emerging problem types. We propose OptSkills, an archetype-centric skill learning and reasoning agent system for optimization modeling and solving. To improve robust generalization, our system clusters problems by their underlying archetypes rather than surface narratives. To improve in-distribution generalization, it explores diverse modeling paradigms and solver configurations within each cluster, then distills successful trajectories into reusable workflow-level skills. To improve out-of-distribution generalization, it refines existing skills or expands the skill library using newly obtained trajectories. Our system achieves a state-of-the-art micro-averaged accuracy of 68.27% on datasets encompassing diverse problem types and scenarios. In addition, on MIPLIB-NL, a highly challenging large-scale and high-dimensional benchmark, it achieves 26.91% accuracy, outperforming DeepSeek-V3.2-Thinking by 4.53%. After skill learning on Nano-CO, it reaches 72.79% on the OOD NLCO benchmark. Code and skills are available at https://github.com/fujiwaranoM0kou/OptSkills.
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spellingShingle OptSkills: Learning Generalizable Optimization Skills from Problem Archetypes via Cluster-Based Distillation
Yang, Haochen
Zhao, Ke
Ma, Mengyuan
Lu, Xingyu
Wang, Xiangfeng
Qian, Hong
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically formulate and solve optimization problems from natural language has emerged as an efficient paradigm for automated optimization. However, existing methods still exhibit limited generalization: they are sensitive to superficial narrative variations, reuse experience mainly at the case level, and struggle to adapt to shifted or emerging problem types. We propose OptSkills, an archetype-centric skill learning and reasoning agent system for optimization modeling and solving. To improve robust generalization, our system clusters problems by their underlying archetypes rather than surface narratives. To improve in-distribution generalization, it explores diverse modeling paradigms and solver configurations within each cluster, then distills successful trajectories into reusable workflow-level skills. To improve out-of-distribution generalization, it refines existing skills or expands the skill library using newly obtained trajectories. Our system achieves a state-of-the-art micro-averaged accuracy of 68.27% on datasets encompassing diverse problem types and scenarios. In addition, on MIPLIB-NL, a highly challenging large-scale and high-dimensional benchmark, it achieves 26.91% accuracy, outperforming DeepSeek-V3.2-Thinking by 4.53%. After skill learning on Nano-CO, it reaches 72.79% on the OOD NLCO benchmark. Code and skills are available at https://github.com/fujiwaranoM0kou/OptSkills.
title OptSkills: Learning Generalizable Optimization Skills from Problem Archetypes via Cluster-Based Distillation
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29829