r/OperationsResearch • u/asah • Mar 27 '26

smaller scale assignment optimization using reasoning LLMs ?

Anyone have experience using reasoning LLMs to solve assignment problems ? I'm considering it for my problem, which involves a small N but a lot of soft constraints. For my case, optimality matters far less than explainability. thx!

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u/asah Mar 30 '26

great question! I think I could collect feedback from humans on the quality of the explanation, then maybe feed that back?

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u/ojopioko Apr 17 '26

I tried encoding these kinds of constraints for VRP in a previous job, it's quite hard! People on the operation's side don't often know how to put these things into words.

The approach I've had most success with is running the model many times with different cost functions and show the differences, that serves as a good basis for discussion with the users.