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Serdar Kadioglu, Karthik Uppuluri, Akash Singirikonda
There is growing interest in leveraging large language models (LLMs) for text-to-model translation and optimization tasks. This paper aims to advance this line of research by introducing \textsc{Text2Model} and \textsc{Text2Zinc}. \textsc{Text2Model} is a suite of co-pilots based on several LLM strategies with varying complexity, along with an online leaderboard. \textsc{Text2Zinc} is a cross-domain dataset for capturing optimization and satisfaction problems specified in natural language, along with an interactive editor with built-in AI assistant. While there is an emerging literature on using LLMs for translating combinatorial problems into formal models, our work is the first attempt to integrate \textit{both} satisfaction and optimization problems within a \textit{unified architecture} and \textit{dataset}. Moreover, our approach is \textit{solver-agnostic} unlike existing work that focuses on translation to a solver-specific model. To achieve this, we leverage \textsc{MiniZinc}'s solver-and-paradigm-agnostic modeling capabilities to formulate combinatorial problems. We conduct comprehensive experiments to compare execution and solution accuracy across several single- and multi-call strategies, including; zero-shot prompting, chain-of-thought reasoning, intermediate representations via knowledge-graphs, grammar-based syntax encoding, and agentic approaches that decompose the model into sequential sub-tasks. Our co-pilot strategies are competitive, and in parts improve, recent research in this domain. Our findings indicate that while LLMs are promising they are not yet a push-button technology for combinatorial modeling. We contribute \textsc{Text2Model} co-pilots and leaderboard, and \textsc{Text2Zinc} and interactive editor to open-source to support closing this performance gap.
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@article{kadioglu2026modeling,
title = {Modeling Co-Pilots for Text-to-Model Translation},
author = {Serdar Kadioglu and Karthik Uppuluri and Akash Singirikonda},
year = {2026},
abstract = {There is growing interest in leveraging large language models (LLMs) for text-to-model translation and optimization tasks. This paper aims to advance this line of research by introducing \textbackslash{}textsc\{Text2Model\} and \textbackslash{}textsc\{Text2Zinc\}. \textbackslash{}textsc\{Text2Model\} is a suite of co-pilots based on several LLM strategies with varying complexity, along with an online leaderboard. \textbackslash{}textsc\{Text2Zinc\} is a cross-domain dataset for capturing optimization and satisfaction problems specified in natural language, along},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12955},
keywords = {cs.AI},
eprint = {2604.12955},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}
{}