Zhiguang Cao

45 papers at tracked venues · 34 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

NeurIPS ×9 AAAI ×6 ICLR ×6 ICML ×5 IJCAI ×5 SIGKDD ×5 AAMAS ×3 GECCO ×2 ACM MM ×1 SIGIR ×1 UAI ×1 WWW ×1

Frequent coauthors

Yaoxin Wu

×15

Yining Ma

×8

Wen Song

×7

Yue-Jiao Gong

×6

Jianan Zhou

×6

You Zhou

×5

Yuan Jiang

×5

Peng Zhao

×5

Jie Zhang

×5

Zeyuan Ma

×4

Yubin Xiao

×4

Yaqing Hou

×4

Papers

Bridging Synthetic and Real Routing Problems via LLM-Guided Instance Generation and Progressive Adaptation
AAAI 2026 ·
Jianghan Zhu
,
Yaoxin Wu
,
Zhuoyi Lin
,
Zhengyuan Zhang
,
Haiyan Yin
, Zhiguang Cao,
Senthilnath Jayavelu
,
Xiaoli Li
Instance Generation for Meta-Black-Box Optimization Through Latent Space Reverse Engineering
AAAI 2026 ·
Chen Wang
,
Yue-Jiao Gong
, Zhiguang Cao,
Zeyuan Ma
Scale-Net: A Hierarchical U-Net Framework for Cross-Scale Generalization in Multi-Task Vehicle Routing
AAAI 2026 ·
Suyu Liu
, Zhiguang Cao,
Nan Yin
,
Yew-Soon Ong
A Mixed-Curvature based Pre-training Paradigm for Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver
ICML 2025 ·
Suyu Liu
, Zhiguang Cao,
Shanshan Feng
,
Yew-Soon Ong
Adversarial Generative Flow Network for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems
ICLR 2025 ·
Ni Zhang
,
Jingfeng Yang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Xu Chi
An Efficient Diffusion-based Non-Autoregressive Solver for Traveling Salesman Problem
SIGKDD 2025 ·
Mingzhao Wang
,
You Zhou
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yubin Xiao
,
Xuan Wu
,
Wei Pang
,
Yuan Jiang
,
Hui Yang
,
Peng Zhao
,
Yuanshu Li
ConfigX: Modular Configuration for Evolutionary Algorithms via Multitask Reinforcement Learning
AAAI 2025 ·
Hongshu Guo
,
Zeyuan Ma
,
Jiacheng Chen
,
Yining Ma
, Zhiguang Cao,
Xinglin Zhang
,
Yue-Jiao Gong
Coupling Category Alignment for Graph Domain Adaptation
IJCAI 2025 ·
Nan Yin
,
Xiao Teng
, Zhiguang Cao,
Mengzhu Wang
DGL: Dynamic Global-Local Information Aggregation for Scalable VRP Generalization with Self-Improvement Learning
IJCAI 2025 ·
Yubin Xiao
,
Yuesong Wu
,
Rui Cao
,
Di Wang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Xuan Wu
,
Peng Zhao
,
Yuanshu Li
,
You Zhou
,
Yuan Jiang
Diversity Optimization for Travelling Salesman Problem via Deep Reinforcement Learning
SIGKDD 2025 ·
Qi Li
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yining Ma
,
Yaoxin Wu
,
Yue-Jiao Gong
Dual Operation Aggregation Graph Neural Networks for Solving Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem with Reinforcement Learning
WWW 2025 ·
Peng Zhao
,
You Zhou
,
Di Wang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yubin Xiao
,
Xuan Wu
,
Yuanshu Li
,
Hongjia Liu
,
Wei Du
,
Yuan Jiang
,
Liupu Wang
DualOpt: A Dual Divide-and-Optimize Algorithm for the Large-scale Traveling Salesman Problem
AAAI 2025 ·
Shipei Zhou
,
Yuandong Ding
,
Chi Zhang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yan Jin
EFormer: An Effective Edge-based Transformer for Vehicle Routing Problems
IJCAI 2025 ·
Dian Meng
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yaoxin Wu
,
Yaqing Hou
,
Hongwei Ge
,
Qiang Zhang
Enhancing Generalization in Large-Scale HCVRP: A Rank-Augmented Neural Solver
SIGKDD 2025 ·
Qidong Liu
,
Jiurui Lian
,
Chaoyue Liu
, Zhiguang Cao
Enhancing Sub-Optimal Trajectory Stitching: Spatial Composition RvS for Offline RL
AAMAS 2025 ·
Sheng Zang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Bo An
,
Senthilnath Jayavelu
,
Xiaoli Li
Graph Assisted Offline-Online Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Workflow Scheduling
ICLR 2025 ·
Yifan Yang
,
Gang Chen
,
Hui Ma
,
Cong Zhang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Mengjie Zhang
Hierarchical Learning-based Graph Partition for Large-scale Vehicle Routing Problems
AAMAS 2025 ·
Yuxin Pan
,
Ruohong Liu
,
Yize Chen
, Zhiguang Cao,
Fangzhen Lin
Hybrid-Balance GFlowNet for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Ni Zhang
, Zhiguang Cao
LIGHT: Enhancing Learning Path Recommendation via Knowledge Topology-Aware Sequence Optimization
SIGIR 2025 ·
Xiaoshan Yu
,
Shangshang Yang
,
Ziwen Wang
,
Siyu Song
,
Haiping Ma
, Zhiguang Cao,
Xingyi Zhang
Large Language Models as End-to-end Combinatorial Optimization Solvers
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Xia Jiang
,
Yaoxin Wu
,
Minshuo Li
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yingqian Zhang
Learning Memory-Enhanced Improvement Heuristics for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Jiaqi Wang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Peng Zhao
,
Rui Cao
,
Yubin Xiao
,
Yuan Jiang
,
You Zhou
MILPBench: A Large-scale Benchmark Test Suite for Mixed Integer Linear Programming Problems
GECCO 2025 ·
Huigen Ye
,
Yaoyang Cheng
,
Hua Xu
, Zhiguang Cao,
Hanzhang Qin
Meta-Black-Box-Optimization through Offline Q-function Learning
ICML 2025 ·
Zeyuan Ma
, Zhiguang Cao,
Zhou Jiang
,
Hongshu Guo
,
Yue-Jiao Gong
Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver via Mixture of Specialized Experts under State-Decomposable MDP
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Yuxin Pan
, Zhiguang Cao,
Chengyang Gu
,
Liu Liu
,
Peilin Zhao
,
Yize Chen
,
Fangzhen Lin
Neural Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization via Graph-Image Multimodal Fusion
ICLR 2025 ·
Jinbiao Chen
,
Jiahai Wang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yaoxin Wu
Preference-based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Historical Route Estimation
IJCAI 2025 ·
Boshen Pan
,
Yaoxin Wu
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yaqing Hou
,
Guangyu Zou
,
Qiang Zhang
Probing Neural Combinatorial Optimization Models
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Zhiqin Zhang
,
Yining Ma
, Zhiguang Cao,
Hoong Chuin Lau
RL4CO: An Extensive Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization Benchmark
SIGKDD 2025 ·
Federico Berto
,
Chuanbo Hua
,
Junyoung Park
,
Laurin Luttmann
,
Yining Ma
,
Fanchen Bu
,
Jiarui Wang
,
Haoran Ye
,
Minsu Kim
,
Sanghyeok Choi
,
Nayeli Gast Zepeda
,
André Hottung
,
Jianan Zhou
,
Jieyi Bi
,
Yu Hu
,
Fei Liu
,
Hyeonah Kim
,
Jiwoo Son
,
Haeyeon Kim
,
Davide Angioni
,
Wouter Kool
, Zhiguang Cao,
Qingfu Zhang
,
Joungho Kim
,
Jie Zhang
,
Kijung Shin
,
Cathy Wu
,
Sungsoo Ahn
,
Guojie Song
,
Changhyun Kwon
,
Kevin Tierney
,
Lin Xie
,
Jinkyoo Park
Rethinking Light Decoder-based Solvers for Vehicle Routing Problems
ICLR 2025 ·
Ziwei Huang
,
Jianan Zhou
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yixin Xu
Rethinking Neural Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization via Neat Weight Embedding
ICLR 2025 ·
Jinbiao Chen
, Zhiguang Cao,
Jiahai Wang
,
Yaoxin Wu
,
Hanzhang Qin
,
Zizhen Zhang
,
Yue-Jiao Gong
SHIELD: Multi-task Multi-distribution Vehicle Routing Solver with Sparsity and Hierarchy
ICML 2025 ·
Yong Liang Goh
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yining Ma
,
Jianan Zhou
,
Mohammed Haroon Dupty
,
Wee Sun Lee
Surrogate Learning in Meta-Black-Box Optimization: A Preliminary Study
GECCO 2025 ·
Zeyuan Ma
,
Zhiyang Huang
,
Jiacheng Chen
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yue-Jiao Gong
UniteFormer: Unifying Node and Edge Modalities in Transformers for Vehicle Routing Problems
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Dian Meng
, Zhiguang Cao,
Jie Gao
,
Yaoxin Wu
,
Yaqing Hou
Visual-Enhanced Multimodal Framework for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem
ACM MM 2025 ·
Peng Zhao
, Zhiguang Cao,
Di Wang
,
Wen Song
,
Wei Pang
,
You Zhou
,
Yuan Jiang
Adaptive Stabilization Based on Machine Learning for Column Generation
ICML 2024 ·
Yunzhuang Shen
,
Yuan Sun
,
Xiaodong Li
, Zhiguang Cao,
Andrew C. Eberhard
,
Guangquan Zhang
Collaboration! Towards Robust Neural Methods for Routing Problems
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Jianan Zhou
,
Yaoxin Wu
, Zhiguang Cao,
Wen Song
,
Jie Zhang
,
Zhiqi Shen
Collaborative Deep Reinforcement Learning for Solving Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problems
AAMAS 2024 ·
Yaoxin Wu
,
Mingfeng Fan
, Zhiguang Cao,
Ruobin Gao
,
Yaqing Hou
,
Guillaume Sartoretti
Cross-Problem Learning for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems
IJCAI 2024 ·
Zhuoyi Lin
,
Yaoxin Wu
,
Bangjian Zhou
, Zhiguang Cao,
Wen Song
,
Yingqian Zhang
,
Senthilnath Jayavelu
Deep Reinforcement Learning Guided Improvement Heuristic for Job Shop Scheduling
ICLR 2024 ·
Cong Zhang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Wen Song
,
Yaoxin Wu
,
Jie Zhang
GLOP: Learning Global Partition and Local Construction for Solving Large-Scale Routing Problems in Real-Time
AAAI 2024 ·
Haoran Ye
,
Jiarui Wang
,
Helan Liang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yong Li
,
Fanzhang Li
Hierarchical Neural Constructive Solver for Real-world TSP Scenarios
SIGKDD 2024 ·
Yong Liang Goh
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yining Ma
,
Yanfei Dong
,
Mohammed Haroon Dupty
,
Wee Sun Lee
Learning Topological Representations with Bidirectional Graph Attention Network for Solving Job Shop Scheduling Problem
UAI 2024 ·
Cong Zhang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yaoxin Wu
,
Wen Song
,
Jing Sun
Learning to Handle Complex Constraints for Vehicle Routing Problems
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Jieyi Bi
,
Yining Ma
,
Jianan Zhou
,
Wen Song
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yaoxin Wu
,
Jie Zhang
MVMoE: Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver with Mixture-of-Experts
ICML 2024 ·
Jianan Zhou
, Zhiguang Cao,
Yaoxin Wu
,
Wen Song
,
Yining Ma
,
Jie Zhang
,
Chi Xu
ReEvo: Large Language Models as Hyper-Heuristics with Reflective Evolution
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Haoran Ye
,
Jiarui Wang
, Zhiguang Cao,
Federico Berto
,
Chuanbo Hua
,
Haeyeon Kim
,
Jinkyoo Park
,
Guojie Song