Optimization benchmark instances
Standard problem instances for routing, scheduling and integer programming, and test functions for metaheuristics.
Key findings
- Datasets in the category “Optimization benchmark instances” were mentioned in 113 papers in the last 30 days (2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26), ranking #1 of the 58 data categories mentioned.
- The most-mentioned were OR-Library (109), CEC benchmark functions (4) and PSPLIB (1).
- By journal category: AI (40), Operations Research (24), Management (18), Economics (17) and Finance (14).
- Most of them appeared in Neural Computing and Applications (9), International Journal of Computer Vision (6) and Future Business Journal (5).
Datasets
| Dataset | Papers | Last 7 days | Names searched for |
|---|---|---|---|
| OR-Library | 109 | 17 | OR-Library, OR Library, ORLib |
| CEC benchmark functions | 4 | 1 | CEC benchmark, CEC test suite, CEC 2005, CEC 2013, CEC 2014, CEC 2017, CEC 2019, CEC 2020, CEC 2021, CEC 2022, CEC2005, CEC2013, CEC2014, CEC2017, CEC2019, CEC2020, CEC2021, CEC2022 |
| PSPLIB | 1 | 0 | PSPLIB |
| CVRPLIB | 0 | 0 | CVRPLIB |
| MIPLIB | 0 | 0 | MIPLIB |
| Multi-objective test problems (ZDT, DTLZ, WFG) | 0 | 0 | ZDT, DTLZ, WFG test |
| Solomon VRPTW instances | 0 | 0 | Solomon instances, Solomon benchmark, Solomon's instances, Solomon's benchmark |
| Taillard instances | 0 | 0 | Taillard instances, Taillard benchmark, Taillard's |
| TSPLIB | 0 | 0 | TSPLIB |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | Datasets mentioned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | AI vs. AI: An AI-Enabled Conversational Intervention to Inoculate Against AI-Generated Fake News | Information Systems Frontiers | Mohammad S. Najjar, Murtaza Nasir | Wichita State University | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-23 | Dynamic prediction of loss given default in Norwegian retail credit card debt: advanced machine learning versus statistical models | Digital Finance | Cathy Ho, Isabel A. C. Sandersen, Espen Selliken et al. | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-23 | Evaluating machine learning and econometric models for inflation forecasting: evidence from a Sub-Saharan African panel | Future Business Journal | Baffour Osei, Abigail Boatemaa, Isaac Nyame et al. | University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development; University of Bradford; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; … | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-23 | Learning Dominant States in Elementary Resource Constrained Shortest Path Problems | Annals of Operations Research | Saverio Basso, Alessandro Minoli, Matteo Salani | Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-22 | Survey on intelligent video surveillance | Journal Of Big Data | Mahmoud Elnady, Hossam E. Abdelmunim, Diaa Abidou et al. | Ain Shams University | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-22 | Asymmetric decentralization and inequality | The Annals of Regional Science | Melissa Ziegler Rogers, Melissa Ziegler Rogers | Duke University; Claremont Graduate University | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-22 | Research on the spatiotemporal prediction of supply chain finance risk contagion based on a dynamic graph attention diffusion mechanism | Financial Innovation | Yulong Zhang, Yulong Zhang, Yaqing Zhang et al. | Hengshui University; Columbia University | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-22 | TTFE: Mining top-k high-threat-and-frequency event sets in IIoT security | Applied Intelligence | Yuer Yang, Yifeng Lin, Siu-Ming Yiu et al. | Jinan University; University of Hong Kong; Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo; … | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-22 | An adaptive line-search-free multiobjective gradient method and its iteration-complexity analysis | Computational Optimization and Applications | Max L. N. Gonçalves, Geovani Nunes Grapiglia, Jefferson G. Melo | Universidade Federal de Goiás; UCLouvain | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-22 | DBCA: A cost-benefit decision-enhanced Besiege and Conquer algorithm for global optimization | Expert Systems with Applications | Chenxu Guo, Jianhua Jiang, Shuxin Guo et al. | Jilin University of Finance and Economics; Auckland University of Technology | CEC benchmark functions |
| 2026-10-22 | Beyond the survey: a systematic empirical study of detection and association in visual MOT | Artificial Intelligence Review | Linh Van Ma, Juhua Hu, Wei Cheng et al. | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology; University of Washington Tacoma | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-22 | Measuring the state of open science in transportation using large language models | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | Junyi Ji, Ruth Lu, Linda Belkessa et al. | Vanderbilt University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Université Gustave Eiffel; … | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-21 | Identifying and managing milestones in consumers’ goal journeys | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Amanda Ann Garrison, Linda Price | Northern State University; University of Wyoming | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-21 | Leveraging Machine Learning for Profit Forecasting and Cost Optimization Using Public Financial Data | Computational Economics | Bilal Ahmad, Abdu Salam, Mian Abdulbasit et al. | University of Peshawar; Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan; Yeungnam University; … | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-21 | The economic geography of Churches: housing market effects in Stockholm | Journal of Cultural Economics | Mats Wilhelmsson | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-20 | Consumer innovativeness and purchase behaviour in AI-enabled voice commerce: parallel mediation by attitude and trust | Future Business Journal | Jyoti Sharma, Shabnam Gulati, Jamal Akhtar Khan et al. | Lovely Professional University; Chandigarh University; Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-20 | Weighted UnLearning from Experience for Improved Spurious Correlation Robustness | Machine Learning | Jeff Mitchell, Jesus; id_orcid 0000-0002-9574-4138 Martinez-del-Rincon, Niall McLaughlin | Queen's University Belfast | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-20 | Test-Time Computing for Referring Multimodal Large Language Models | International Journal of Computer Vision | Mingrui Wu, Hao Chen, Jiayi Ji et al. | Xiamen University; Tsinghua University; Nankai University | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-18 | LLM-Powered Query Expansion for Enhancing Boundary Prediction in Language-Driven Action Localization | International Journal of Computer Vision | Zirui Shang, Xinxiao Wu, Shuo Yang | Beijing Institute of Technology; Shenzhen MSU-BIT University | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-17 | CorrCLIPv2: Harnessing Unlabeled Images for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation | International Journal of Computer Vision | D H Zhang, Fagui Liu, Quan Tang et al. | South China University of Technology; Peng Cheng Laboratory | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-17 | Decentralized Conjugate Gradient and Memoryless BFGS Methods | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications | Liping Wang, Hao Wu, Hongchao Zhang | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Louisiana State University | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-16 | Public technical disclosure of AI implementation in finance: Python-framed evidence from 253 NYSE-listed financial companies | Financial Innovation | Veliota Drakopoulou | Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-15 | A Cognitive, Quantum-Inspired Learning Framework for Energy-Efficient and Reliable Routing in Wireless Body Area Networks | Cognitive Computation | Soufiane Ben Othman, Naima Saeed | King Faisal University; University of Aden | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-15 | Interior-Point Methods for Optimal Power Flow with Scheduled Topological Changes under Uncertain Demand | Annals of Operations Research | S. M. S. Carvalho, Demacio Costa de Oliveira, AURELIO RIBEIRO LEITE OLIVEIRA et al. | Universidade Federal de São Carlos; Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco; Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-15 | Quantile Affine Geometry: Exact linearization of 1D Wasserstein primitives for scalable machine learning | Knowledge-Based Systems | Mohamad Hasan Bahari, Mohammad Parsa Etemadheravi | OR-Library | |
| 2026-10-14 | A newly improved heuristic algorithm: the CTHBA algorithm for UAV route planning | Optimization Letters | Yixin Zhao, Wencong She, Shenglong Duan et al. | Nanjing University of Science and Technology; University of Florida | CEC benchmark functions |
| 2026-10-14 | Government-sourced categorical economic policy uncertainty | International Review of Economics & Finance | Khanh Cong Gia Hoang, Linh Pham, Thanh Ngo et al. | OR-Library | |
| 2026-10-14 | Modeling and simulating human behavior in large-scale emergency evacuations: A comprehensive review | Transportation Research Part B Methodological | Shiva Moslemi, Ada Arıkanoğlu, Vedat Bayram et al. | OR-Library | |
| 2026-10-13 | NoDE: noise-decorrelation embedding for robust long-term multivariate time series forecasting | Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery | Minhyuk Lee, Hyekyung Yoon, Imseong Park et al. | Seoul National University; Mathematical Sciences Research Institute | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-13 | Implied temperature rise metrics: a compass without direction? | Financial markets and portfolio management | Manuel C. Kathan, Moritz Reisser, Sebastian Utz | University of Augsburg; University of St.Gallen; Center for Climate and Resilience Research; … | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-13 | Hungry [f]or public Goods? What the Scottish public Demand from an agricultural support scheme | Food Policy | Jay G. Burns, Anastasio J. Villanueva, Jacqueline M. Potts et al. | University of Edinburgh; Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training; Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland; … | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-13 | AIRIME: a scalable adaptive RIME algorithm for feature optimization and data-driven monkeypox disease prediction | Journal Of Big Data | Mohamed Elhosseny, Mahmoud Abdel-Salam, Doaa Sami Khafaga et al. | Mansoura University; University of Sharjah; Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University; … | CEC benchmark functions |
| 2026-10-13 | CAMF-Det: Closure-aware multimodal fusion for LiDAR-camera 3D object detection on UAV platforms | Information Fusion | Yanze Jiang, Yanfeng Gu, Xian Li | Harbin Institute of Technology | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-12 | Gaussian Splatting for real-time scene reconstruction: Methods, systems, and trade-offs | Pattern Recognition | Ashim Dahal, Rabab Abdelfattah, Nick Rahimi | University of Southern Mississippi | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-12 | Complexity guarantees and polling strategies for Riemannian direct-search methods | Computational Optimization and Applications | Bastien Cavarretta, Florentin Goyens, Clément W. Royer et al. | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Lamsade; Université Paris Dauphine-PSL; … | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-12 | Enhancing large language model-based systems for end-to-end circuit analysis problem solving | Knowledge-Based Systems | Liang‐Liang Chen, Weiyu Sun, Huiru Xie et al. | Georgia Institute of Technology | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-10 | Does social media deployment by local governments raise voters’ offline engagement – Evidence from the German state of Hesse | The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance | Abeer Ibtisam Aziz, Ivo Bischoff | University of Kassel | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-10 | Promotion and prevention regulatory focus in equity crowdfunding reinvestment decisions | Journal of Business Research | Camilla Civardi, Andrea Moro | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Lund University | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-10 | Productivity and employment adjustments in regional economic resilience | The Annals of Regional Science | Giulia Iannone, Ascani Andrea, Alessandra Faggian et al. | Gran Sasso Science Institute; West Virginia University | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-09 | Product market competition and target difficulty: The role of innovation | International Review of Economics & Finance | Seul Gi Oh | OR-Library | |
| 2026-10-09 | Test-time optimization for domain adaptive open vocabulary segmentation | Neural Networks | Ulindu De Silva, Didula Samaraweera, Sasini Wanigathunga et al. | University of Moratuwa; Stony Brook University; Khalifa University of Science and Technology | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-08 | A novel graph-based patient embedding method for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease from microRNA expression data | Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery | Veronica Buttaro, Antonio Pellicani, Gianvito Pio et al. | University of Bari Aldo Moro; Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica; National Research Council; … | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-08 | Budgeted evidence set construction for cross-library compliance RAG: Beyond relevance ranking truncation | Expert Systems with Applications | Zhenpeng Li | Guangzhou Health Science College | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-08 | Behavioral drivers of cryptocurrency markets: A systematic review | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance | Sebastian Steindl, Hans Rüdiger Kaufmann, Bernd Britzelmaier | University of Nicosia; Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-07 | Artificial intelligence technologies, skills demand and employment: Evidence from linked job ads | Labour Economics | Lennert Peede, Michael Stops | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-07 | The politicization of AI semiconductor discourse: A longitudinal analysis of Korean media coverage (2023–2025) | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | JongHwi Song, Sooyeun Yoo, Erdenebayar Urtnasan | Yonsei University; Yonsei University Mirae Campus | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-07 | Temporary internal displacement and receiving communities’ voting behavior | Public Choice | Salvatore Carrozzo | Parthenope University of Naples | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-07 | Redefining fuel poverty: Introducing the temporal equity framework (TEF) | Energy Policy | Torran Semple, J. Harvey, Grazziela Patrocinio Figueredo et al. | University of Oxford; University of Nottingham; Queen's Medical Centre | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-06 | Is bitcoin a hedge against central banking? Evidence from AI-driven monetary policy expectations | Journal of International Money and Finance | Maxime L. D. Nicolas, François Sicard, Marion Labouré et al. | University College London; Deutsche Bank (United Kingdom) | OR-Library |
| 2026-10-06 | Challenges in the decarbonization of the UK electrical power system by 2030: A techno-economic analysis of current and alternative policies | Energy Policy | Hui Yau Or, Salvador Acha, Nilay Shah et al. | Imperial College London; National Grid (United Kingdom) | OR-Library |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Optimization benchmark instances. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/optimization-benchmark-instances
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title = {Optimization benchmark instances},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/optimization-benchmark-instances}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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