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This paper presents a novel algorithm integrating global and robust optimization methods to solve continuous non-convex quadratic problems under convex uncertainty sets. The proposed Robust spatial branch-and-bound (RsBB) algorithm combines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Asimina Marousi , Vassilis M. Charitopoulos

In the field of machine learning (ML) for materials optimization, active learning algorithms, such as Bayesian Optimization (BO), have been leveraged for guiding autonomous and high-throughput experimentation systems. However, very few…

Global polynomial optimization is an important tool across applied mathematics, with many applications in operations research, engineering, and physical sciences. In various settings, the polynomials depend on external parameters that may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Richard L. Zhu , Mathias Oster , Yuehaw Khoo

Optimizing black-box functions in high-dimensional search spaces has been known to be challenging for traditional Bayesian Optimization (BO). In this paper, we introduce HiBO, a novel hierarchical algorithm integrating global-level search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Wenxuan Li , Taiyi Wang , Eiko Yoneki

Stochastic variance reduced optimization methods are known to be globally convergent while they suffer from slow local convergence, especially when moderate or high accuracy is needed. To alleviate this problem, we propose an optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Hamed Sadeghi , Pontus Giselsson

Hyperparameter tuning is an omnipresent problem in machine learning as it is an integral aspect of obtaining the state-of-the-art performance for any model. Most often, hyperparameters are optimized just by training a model on a grid of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Hadi S. Jomaa , Josif Grabocka , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Many control problems require repeated tuning and adaptation of controllers across distinct closed-loop tasks, where data efficiency and adaptability are critical. We propose a hierarchical Bayesian optimization (BO) framework that is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Sebastian Hirt , Lukas Theiner , Maik Pfefferkorn , Rolf Findeisen

Many scientific and technological problems are related to optimization. Among them, black-box optimization in high-dimensional space is particularly challenging. Recent neural network-based black-box optimization studies have shown…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Changhwi Park

In many global Optimization Problems, it is required to evaluate a global point (min or max) in large space that calculation effort is very high. In this paper is presented new approach for optimization problem with subdivision labeling…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Masoumeh Vali

Nowadays, optimization problem have more application in all major but they have problem in computation. Computation global point in continuous functions have high calculation and this became clearer in large space .In this paper, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Masoumeh Vali

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular paradigm for global optimization of expensive black-box functions, but there are many domains where the function is not completely a black-box. The data may have some known structure (e.g. symmetries)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Samuel Kim , Peter Y. Lu , Charlotte Loh , Jamie Smith , Jasper Snoek , Marin Soljačić

A surrogate function is often employed to reduce the number of objective function evaluations for optimization. However, the effect of using a surrogate model in evolutionary approaches has not been theoretically investigated. This paper…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Youhei Akimoto

Bayesian optimization is a highly efficient approach to optimizing objective functions which are expensive to query. These objectives are typically represented by Gaussian process (GP) surrogate models which are easy to optimize and support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Yucen Lily Li , Tim G. J. Rudner , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Explicitly accounting for uncertainties is paramount to the safety of engineering structures. Optimization which is often carried out at the early stage of the structural design offers an ideal framework for this task. When the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-14 M. Moustapha , A. Galimshina , G. Habert , B. Sudret

The aim of the present paper is to develop a strategy for solving reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) problems that remains applicable when the performance models are expensive to evaluate. Starting with the premise that…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-04-20 V. Dubourg , B. Sudret , J. -M. Bourinet

In this paper, the global optimization problem $\min_{y\in S} F(y)$ with $S$ being a hyperinterval in $\Re^N$ and $F(y)$ satisfying the Lipschitz condition with an unknown Lipschitz constant is considered. It is supposed that the function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-14 Daniela Lera , Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

Consensus-based optimization (CBO) is a multi-agent metaheuristic derivative-free optimization algorithm that has proven to be capable of globally minimizing nonconvex nonsmooth functions across a diverse range of applications while being…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Sabrina Bonandin , Konstantin Riedl , Sara Veneruso

In this paper, a novel derivative-free pattern search based algorithm for Black-box optimization is proposed over a simplex constrained parameter space. At each iteration, starting from the current solution, new possible set of solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Priyam Das

In the paper, the global optimization problem of a multidimensional "black-box" function satisfying the Lipschitz condition over a hyperinterval with an unknown Lipschitz constant is considered. A new efficient algorithm for solving this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev , Dmitri E. Kvasov

It has been shown that cooperative coevolution (CC) can effectively deal with large scale optimization problems (LSOPs) through a divide-and-conquer strategy. However, its performance is severely restricted by the current…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Bei Pang , Zhigang Ren , Yongsheng Liang , An Chen