ResearchResearch paperReinforcement Learning · Reasoning & Planning1 source · Oct 10, 2026

Think in Strategies, Act with Tools: Traceable Agentic Optimization for Combinatorial Problems

To address this limitation, we propose a Tool-Augmented Strategic Agent (TASA) which summarizes and exploits trajectory to improve solution quality.

Key points

  • Optimization by PROmpting (OPRO) directly leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate candidate solutions through natural-language prompting.
  • Moreover, we leverage LLM to construct problem-specific tools and introduce a strategy-guided adaptive tool planner, which efficiently utilizes the information of trajectory to update solutions.
  • We establish local convergence under persistent exploration and evaluate the complete framework under a shared candidate-evaluation budget.
  • The results support its solution quality and the traceability of strategy-guided search.

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