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Recent advances in learnable evolutionary algorithms have demonstrated the importance of leveraging population distribution information and historical evolutionary trajectories. While significant progress has been made in continuous…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jiaxiang Huang , Licheng Jiao

Recently, preference optimization methods such as DPO have significantly enhanced large language models (LLMs) in wide tasks including dialogue and question-answering. However, current methods fail to account for the varying difficulty…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jingyuan Ma , Rui Li , Zheng Li , Lei Sha , Zhifang Sui

PARyOpt is a python based implementation of the Bayesian optimization routine designed for remote and asynchronous function evaluations. Bayesian optimization is especially attractive for computational optimization due to its low cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Balaji Sesha Sarath Pokuri , Alec Lofquist , Chad M Risko , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Learning to optimize (L2O) is an emerging approach that leverages machine learning to develop optimization methods, aiming at reducing the laborious iterations of hand engineering. It automates the design of an optimization method based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Tianlong Chen , Xiaohan Chen , Wuyang Chen , Howard Heaton , Jialin Liu , Zhangyang Wang , Wotao Yin

Bilevel optimization problems comprise an upper level optimization task that contains a lower level optimization task as a constraint. While there is a significant and growing literature devoted to solving bilevel problems with single…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Bing Wang , Hemant K. Singh , Tapabrata Ray

Few-for-many (F4M) optimization, recently introduced as a novel paradigm in multi-objective optimization, aims to find a small set of solutions that effectively handle a large number of conflicting objectives. Unlike traditional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ke Shang , Hisao Ishibuchi , Zexuan Zhu , Qingfu Zhang

This paper presents VBMO, the Voting-Based Multi-Objective path planning algorithm, that generates optimal single-objective plans, evaluates each of them with respect to the other objectives, and selects one with a voting mechanism. VBMO…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Raj Korpan

Expensive multi-objective optimization problems can be found in many real-world applications, where their objective function evaluations involve expensive computations or physical experiments. It is desirable to obtain an approximate Pareto…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Qingfu Zhang

In offline multi-objective optimization (MOO), we leverage an offline dataset of designs and their associated labels to simultaneously minimize multiple objectives. This setting more closely mirrors complex real-world problems compared to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ye Yuan , Can Chen , Christopher Pal , Xue Liu

Prompt engineering can significantly improve the performance of large language models (LLMs), with automated prompt optimization (APO) gaining significant attention due to the time-consuming and laborious nature of manual prompt design.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Wenxin Luo , Weirui Wang , Xiaopeng Li , Weibo Zhou , Pengyue Jia , Xiangyu Zhao

When tuning software configuration for better performance (e.g., latency or throughput), an important issue that many optimizers face is the presence of local optimum traps, compounded by a highly rugged configuration landscape and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tao Chen , Miqing Li

Recent research explores optimization using large language models (LLMs) by either iteratively seeking next-step solutions from LLMs or directly prompting LLMs for an optimizer. However, these approaches exhibit inherent limitations,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Zeyuan Ma , Hongshu Guo , Jiacheng Chen , Guojun Peng , Zhiguang Cao , Yining Ma , Yue-Jiao Gong

Solving constrained optimization problems by multi-objective evolutionary algorithms has scored tremendous achievements in the last decade. Standard multi-objective schemes usually aim at minimizing the objective function and also the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Tao Xu , Jun He

Many real-world decision-making problems involve optimizing multiple objectives simultaneously, rendering the selection of the most preferred solution a non-trivial problem: All Pareto optimal solutions are viable candidates, and it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Niclas Boehmer , Maximilian T. Wittmann

Machine learning methods have been used to accelerate the molecule optimization process. However, efficient search for optimized molecules satisfying several properties with scarce labeled data remains a challenge for machine learning…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-20 Xin Xia , Yansen Su , Chunhou Zheng , Xiangxiang Zeng

Balancing competing objectives is omnipresent across disciplines, from drug design to autonomous systems. Multi-objective Bayesian optimization is a promising solution for such expensive, black-box problems: it fits probabilistic surrogates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xinyu Zhang , Conor Hassan , Julien Martinelli , Daolang Huang , Samuel Kaski

Large language models deployed in sensitive applications increasingly require the ability to unlearn specific knowledge, such as user requests, copyrighted materials, or outdated information, without retraining from scratch to ensure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sadia Asif , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri

We consider the problem of multi-objective (MO) blackbox optimization using expensive function evaluations, where the goal is to approximate the true Pareto set of solutions while minimizing the number of function evaluations. For example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Syrine Belakaria , Aryan Deshwal , Nitthilan Kannappan Jayakodi , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Tuning hyperparameters for machine learning algorithms is a tedious task, one that is typically done manually. To enable automated hyperparameter tuning, recent works have started to use techniques based on Bayesian optimization. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Sandeep Singh Sandha , Mohit Aggarwal , Igor Fedorov , Mani Srivastava

This article introduces an expansion within SPINEX (Similarity-based Predictions with Explainable Neighbors Exploration) suite, now extended to single, multiple, and many objective optimization problems. The newly developed…

Applications · Statistics 2024-08-06 MZ Naser , Ahmed Z Naser