ACL 2025long0 citations

DeepSolution: Boosting Complex Engineering Solution Design via Tree-based Exploration and Bi-point Thinking

Zhuoqun Li, Haiyang Yu, Xuanang Chen, Hongyu Lin, Yaojie Lu, Fei Huang, Xianpei Han, Yongbin Li

Abstract

Designing solutions for complex engineering challenges is crucial in human production activities. However, previous research in the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) field has not sufficiently addressed tasks related to the design of complex engineering solutions. To fill this gap, we introduce a new benchmark, SolutionBench, to evaluate a system’s ability to generate complete and feasible solutions for engineering problems with multiple complex constraints. To further advance the design of complex engineering solutions, we propose a novel system, SolutionRAG, that leverages the tree-based exploration and bi-point thinking mechanism to generate reliable solutions. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that SolutionRAG achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on the SolutionBench, highlighting its potential to enhance the automation and reliability of complex engineering solution design in real-world applications.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{li-etal-2025-deepsolution,
    title = "{D}eep{S}olution: Boosting Complex Engineering Solution Design via Tree-based Exploration and Bi-point Thinking",
    author = "Li, Zhuoqun  and
      Yu, Haiyang  and
      Chen, Xuanang  and
      Lin, Hongyu  and
      Lu, Yaojie  and
      Huang, Fei  and
      Han, Xianpei  and
      Li, Yongbin  and
      Sun, Le",
    editor = "Che, Wanxiang  and
      Nabende, Joyce  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.220/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.220",
    pages = "4380--4396",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-251-0"
}
DeepSolution: Boosting Complex Engineering Solution Design via Tree-based Exploration and Bi-point Thinking · ACL 2025