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Trajectory optimization is a central component of fast and efficient autonomous racing. However practical optimization pipelines remain highly sensitive to initialization and may converge slowly or to suboptimal local solutions when seeded…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Samir Shehadeh , Lukas Kutsch , Nils Dengler , Sicong Pan , Maren Bennewitz

Decision tree optimization is notoriously difficult from a computational perspective but essential for the field of interpretable machine learning. Despite efforts over the past 40 years, only recently have optimization breakthroughs been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jimmy Lin , Chudi Zhong , Diane Hu , Cynthia Rudin , Margo Seltzer

Decision tree optimization is fundamental to interpretable machine learning. The most popular approach is to greedily search for the best feature at every decision point, which is fast but provably suboptimal. Recent approaches find the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Varun Babbar , Hayden McTavish , Cynthia Rudin , Margo Seltzer

Topology optimization enables the design of highly efficient and complex structures, but conventional iterative methods, such as SIMP-based approaches, often suffer from high computational costs and sensitivity to initial conditions.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Aaron Lutheran , Srijan Das , Alireza Tabarraei

The rapid advances in the field of optimization methods in many pure and applied science pose the difficulty of keeping track of the developments as well as selecting an appropriate technique that best suits the problem in-hand. From a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Loris Serafino

Motivation: Identifying the molecular pathways more prone to disruption during a pathological process is a key task in network medicine and, more in general, in systems biology. Results: In this work we propose a pipeline that couples a…

The use of machine learning algorithms in finance, medicine, and criminal justice can deeply impact human lives. As a consequence, research into interpretable machine learning has rapidly grown in an attempt to better control and fix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Thibaut Vidal , Toni Pacheco , Maximilian Schiffer

Training data is an essential resource for creating capable and robust vision systems which are integral to the proper function of many robotic systems. Synthesized training data has been shown in recent years to be a viable alternative to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Peter Gavriel , Adam Norton , Kenneth Kimble , Megan Zimmerman

Background: It is widely recognized that software effort estimation is a regression problem. Model Tree (MT) is one of the Machine Learning based regression techniques that is useful for software effort estimation, but as other machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Mohammad Azzeh

The sequential parameter optimization (SPOT) package for R is a toolbox for tuning and understanding simulation and optimization algorithms. Model-based investigations are common approaches in simulation and optimization. Sequential…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-25 Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

Compiler optimization relies on sequences of passes to improve program performance. Selecting and ordering these passes automatically, known as compiler auto-tuning, is challenging due to the large and complex search space. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Haolin Pan , Jinyuan Dong , Mingjie Xing , Yanjun Wu

This paper introduces Tree-NET, a novel framework for medical image segmentation that leverages bottleneck feature supervision to enhance both segmentation accuracy and computational efficiency. While previous studies have employed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Orhan Demirci , Bulent Yilmaz

We present a new approach to ensemble learning. Our approach constructs a tree of subsets of the feature space and associates a predictor (predictive model) - determined by training one of a given family of base learners on an endogenously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Jinsung Yoon , William R. Zame , Mihaela van der Schaar

Decision trees have been widely used as classifiers in many machine learning applications thanks to their lightweight and interpretable decision process. This paper introduces Tree in Tree decision graph (TnT), a framework that extends the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Bingzhao Zhu , Mahsa Shoaran

AI's exponential growth intensifies computational demands and energy challenges. While practitioners employ various optimization techniques, that we refer as "knobs" in this paper, to tune model efficiency, these are typically afterthoughts…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Saurabhsingh Rajput , Mootez Saad , Tushar Sharma

Data-driven algorithm design is a paradigm that uses statistical and machine learning techniques to select from a class of algorithms for a computational problem an algorithm that has the best expected performance with respect to some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hongyu Cheng , Sammy Khalife , Barbara Fiedorowicz , Amitabh Basu

A machine intelligence pipeline usually consists of six components: problem, representation, model, loss, optimizer and metric. Researchers have worked hard trying to automate many components of the pipeline. However, one key component of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Yongfeng Zhang

Proteomic matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation (MALDI) linear time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) may be used to produce protein profiles from biological samples with the aim of discovering biomarkers for disease. However,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-24 Tyman E. Stanford , Christopher J. Bagley , Patty J. Solomon

Process control and optimization have been widely used to solve decision-making problems in chemical engineering applications. However, identifying and tuning the best solution algorithm is challenging and time-consuming. Machine learning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Ilias Mitrai , Prodromos Daoutidis

As an emerging field, Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) aims to reduce or eliminate manual operations that require expertise in machine learning. In this paper, a graph-based architecture is employed to represent flexible combinations of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Fei Qi , Zhaohui Xia , Gaoyang Tang , Hang Yang , Yu Song , Guangrui Qian , Xiong An , Chunhuan Lin , Guangming Shi