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2026-08-14
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machine-learning
Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization
A new arXiv preprint (arXiv:2608.13087v1) reports that apparent gains from non-uniform test-time budget allocation in neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) are largely an artifact of in-sample evalu…