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26 February 2026

🎉 Congratulations to the OptVerse-CityU team-a collaboration between our group and Huawei—including Dr. Fei Liu, Dr. Zidong Wang, Xin Chen, Qinglong Hu, Shunyu Yao, and Kefeng Zheng, a collaboration between our group and Huawei, which includes Dr. Fei LIU, Dr. Zi dong WANG, Xin CHEN, Qinglong HU, Shunyu YAO and Kefeng ZHENG for winning the 30-day CVRPLib BKS Challenge! This prestigious competition challenges teams to produce the best known solutions (BKS) for the large-scale Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP), and the OptVerse-CityU team succeeded in generating BKS for 51 out of 100 instances. Notably, their algorithm incorporates key components designed by the Evolution of Heuristics (EoH) system, marking a significant milestone as the first algorithm with AI-designed elements to win in this rigorous contest. Developed by our group and Huawei, the EoH system (its first version was called AEL) showcases innovative integration of evolutionary search and large language models.

25 February 2026

🎉 Our paper “Multimodal LLM-Assisted Evolutionary Search for Programmatic Control Policies” has been accepted by ICLR-26!

8 November 2025

🎉 Our paper “Beyond the Lower Bound: Bridging Regret Minimization and Best Arm Identification in Lexicographic Bandits” has been accepted by AAAI-26!

8 November 2025

🎉 Our paper “CoEvo: Continual Evolution of Symbolic Solutions Using Large Language Models” has been accepted by AAAI-26!

8 November 2025

🎉 Our paper “EoH-S: Evolution of Heuristic Set using LLMs for Automated Heuristic Design” has been accepted by AAAI-26!

8 November 2025

🎉 Our paper “Parametric Pareto Set Learning for Expensive Multi-Objective Optimization” has been accepted by AAAI-26!

14 February 2025

🎉 Congratulation to Dr. LIU for defending his thesis!

14 January 2025

🎉 Congratulation to Dr. CHEN for defending her thesis!

29 November 2024

🎉 Congratulation to Dr. ZHAO for defending his thesis!

19 November 2024

Prof. Qingfu ZHANG named Highly Cited Researchers for 2024 by Clarivate!

20 September 2024

🎉 Congratulation to Fei LIU for the Champion award in IEEE CIS Hong Kong Chapter Postgraduate Student Research Paper Competition 2024

24 July 2024

🎉 Congratulation to Chengyu Lu and Yilu Liu for the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE CEC 2024