Scientific Articles

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Preprint

• Combinatorial Optimization for All: Using LLMs to Aid Non-Experts in Improving Optimization Algorithms (March 2025). arXiv.

  • Authors: Camilo Chacón Sartori (*), Christian Blum.

• Improving Existing Optimization Algorithms with LLMs (February 2025). arXiv.

  • Authors: Camilo Chacón Sartori (*), Christian Blum.

Journal

• [3] VisGraphVar: A Benchmark Generator for Assessing Variability in Graph Analysis Using Large Vision-Language Models (2025). IEEE Access.

  • Authors: Camilo Chacón Sartori (*), Christian Blum, Filippo Bistaffa.

  • Homepage / Dataset / Code

• [2] Metaheuristics and Large Language Models Join Forces: Toward an Integrated Optimization Approach (2025). IEEE Access.

  • Authors: Camilo Chacón Sartori (*), Christian Blum, Filippo Bistaffa, and Guillem Rodríguez Corominas.

  • Code

• [1] STNWeb: A new visualization tool for analyzing optimization algorithms (2023). Software Impacts.

  • Authors: Camilo Chacón Sartori (*), Christian Blum, Gabriela Ochoa.

  • Code

Conference

• An Extension of STNWeb Functionality: On the Use of Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering as an Advanced Search Space Partitioning Strategy (2024). Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 24. Core A

  • Authors: Camilo Chacón Sartori (*), Christian Blum, Gabriela Ochoa.

• Large Language Models for the Automated Analysis of Optimization Algorithms (2024). Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 24. Core A

  • Authors: Camilo Chacón Sartori (*), Christian Blum, Gabriela Ochoa.

• STNWeb for the Analysis of Optimization Algorithms: A Short Introduction (2024). Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC).

  • Authors: Camilo Chacón Sartori (*), Christian Blum.

• Q-Learning Ant Colony Optimization supported by Deep Learning for Target Set Selection (2023). Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 23. Core A

  • Authors: Jairo Enrique Ramírez Sánchez, Camilo Chacón Sartori, Christian Blum.

• Search Trajectory Networks Meet the Web: A Web Application for the Visual Comparison of Optimization Algorithms (2023). International Conference on Software and Computer Applications (ICSCA).

  • Authors: Camilo Chacón Sartori (*), Christian Blum, Gabriela Ochoa.

• Boosting a Genetic Algorithm with Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Hop Influence Maximization in Social Networks (2022). Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence System (FedCSIS). Core B. Best paper award.

  • Authors: Camilo Chacón Sartori (*), Christian Blum.