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In this paper, we bridge the gap between hyperparameter optimization and ensemble learning by performing Bayesian optimization of an ensemble with regards to its hyperparameters. Our method consists in building a fixed-size ensemble,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Julien-Charles Lévesque , Christian Gagné , Robert Sabourin

The game of Go has been highly under-researched due to the lack of game records and analysis tools. In recent years, the increasing number of professional competitions and the advent of AlphaZero-based algorithms provide an excellent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yifan Gao , Danni Zhang , Haoyue Li

Stochastic min-max optimization has gained interest in the machine learning community with the advancements in GANs and adversarial training. Although game optimization is fairly well understood in the deterministic setting, some issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Juan Ramirez , Rohan Sukumaran , Quentin Bertrand , Gauthier Gidel

With breakthrough of the AlphaGo, human-computer gaming AI has ushered in a big explosion, attracting more and more researchers all around the world. As a recognized standard for testing artificial intelligence, various human-computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Qiyue Yin , Jun Yang , Kaiqi Huang , Meijing Zhao , Wancheng Ni , Bin Liang , Yan Huang , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Policy optimization methods with function approximation are widely used in multi-agent reinforcement learning. However, it remains elusive how to design such algorithms with statistical guarantees. Leveraging a multi-agent performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yulai Zhao , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Jason D. Lee

Since the advent of computers, many tasks which required humans to spend a lot of time and energy have been trivialized by the computers' ability to perform repetitive tasks extremely quickly. Playing chess is one such task. It was one of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Rahul Aralikatte , G Srinivasaraghavan

Recent advances in data-driven evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have demonstrated the potential of leveraging historical data to improve optimization accuracy and adaptability. Despite these advancements, existing methods remain reliant on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Tao Jiang , Kebin Sun , Zhenyu Liang , Ran Cheng , Yaochu Jin , Kay Chen Tan

Training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is notoriously challenging. We propose and study an architectural modification, self-modulation, which improves GAN performance across different data sets, architectures, losses, regularizers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Ting Chen , Mario Lucic , Neil Houlsby , Sylvain Gelly

Purpose: Machine learning is broadly used for clinical data analysis. Before training a model, a machine learning algorithm must be selected. Also, the values of one or more model parameters termed hyper-parameters must be set. Selecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Xueqiang Zeng , Gang Luo

Bayesian optimization is an effective method for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions. High-dimensional problems are particularly challenging as the surrogate model of the objective suffers from the curse of dimensionality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Erik Orm Hellsten , Carl Hvarfner , Leonard Papenmeier , Luigi Nardi

We present the results of a numerical study, with 20 qubits, of the performance of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm on randomly generated instances of MAX 2-SAT with a unique assignment that maximizes the number of satisfied clauses. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Elizabeth Crosson , Edward Farhi , Cedric Yen-Yu Lin , Han-Hsuan Lin , Peter Shor

We introduce Genetic AI, a novel method for multi-objective optimization without external parameters or predefined weights. The method can be applied to all problems that can be formulated in matrix form and allows for a data-less training…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Philipp Wissgott

Recently, program autotuning has become very popular especially in embedded systems, when we have limited resources such as computing power and memory where these systems run generally time-critical applications. Compiler optimization space…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Burak Tağtekin , Berkan Höke , Mert Kutay Sezer , Mahiye Uluyağmur Öztürk

This paper introduces a novel metaheuristic algorithm, known as the efficient multiplayer battle game optimizer (EMBGO), specifically designed for addressing complex numerical optimization tasks. The motivation behind this research stems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Rui Zhong , Yuefeng Xu , Chao Zhang , Jun Yu

Reinforcement learning algorithms can show strong variation in performance between training runs with different random seeds. In this paper we explore how this affects hyperparameter optimization when the goal is to find hyperparameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Lars Hertel , Pierre Baldi , Daniel L. Gillen

In recent years, much progress has been made in computer Go and most of the results have been obtained thanks to search algorithms (Monte Carlo Tree Search) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). In this paper, we propose to use and analyze…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Brahim Driss , Jérôme Arjonilla , Hui Wang , Abdallah Saffidine , Tristan Cazenave

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been widely used in many applications, particularly in gaming, which serves as an excellent training ground for AI models. Google DeepMind has pioneered innovations in this field, employing reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Abdelrhman Shaheen , Anas Badr , Ali Abohendy , Hatem Alsaadawy , Nadine Alsayad , Ehab H. El-Shazly

Bayesian optimization (BO) has contributed greatly to improving model performance by suggesting promising hyperparameter configurations iteratively based on observations from multiple training trials. However, only partial knowledge (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 HyunJae Lee , Heon Song , Hyeonsoo Lee , Gi-hyeon Lee , Suyeong Park , Donggeun Yoo

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is an effective method for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions with a wide range of applications for example in robotics, system design and parameter optimization. However, scaling BO to problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Lukas P. Fröhlich , Edgar D. Klenske , Christian G. Daniel , Melanie N. Zeilinger

We derive an optimal policy for adaptively restarting a randomized algorithm, based on observed features of the run-so-far, so as to minimize the expected time required for the algorithm to successfully terminate. Given a suitable Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Matthew Streeter