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This paper proposes an automatic controller tuning framework based on linear optimal control combined with Bayesian optimization. With this framework, an initial set of controller gains is automatically improved according to a pre-defined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Alonso Marco , Philipp Hennig , Jeannette Bohg , Stefan Schaal , Sebastian Trimpe

Quantization followed by parameter-efficient fine-tuning has emerged as a promising paradigm for downstream adaptation under tight GPU memory constraints. However, this sequential pipeline fails to leverage the intricate interaction between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Changhai Zhou , Shiyang Zhang , Yuhua Zhou , Qian Qiao , Jun Gao , Cheng Jin , Kaizhou Qin , Weizhong Zhang

The paper combines research approaches that traditionally have been disjoint: 1) model checking as used in formal verification of programs, and 2) auto-tuning as often used in high-performance computing. Auto-tuning frameworks optimize…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Natalia Garanina , Sergey Staroletov , Sergei Gorlatch

Policy optimization in reinforcement learning requires the selection of numerous hyperparameters across different environments. Fixing them incorrectly may negatively impact optimization performance leading notably to insufficient or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Jiancong Huang , Juan Rojas , Matthieu Zimmer , Hongmin Wu , Yisheng Guan , Paul Weng

The rapid adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has made GPU inference efficiency an increasingly critical system concern. The runtime of LLM workloads is largely dominated by tile-based kernels, particularly General Matrix…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kaixuan Zhang , Chutong Ding , Shiyou Qian , Luping Wang , Jian Cao , Guangtao Xue , Cheng Huang , Guodong Yang , Liping Zhang

Parameter tuning for vehicle controllers remains a costly and time-intensive challenge in automotive development. Traditional approaches rely on extensive real-world testing, making the process inefficient. We propose a multi-fidelity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Yongpeng Zhao , Maik Pfefferkorn , Maximilian Templer , Rolf Findeisen

Bayesian optimisation is an adaptive sampling strategy for constructing a Gaussian process surrogate to efficiently search for the global minimum of a black-box computational model. Gaussian processes have limited applicability in…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-04 Thomas A. Archbold , Ieva Kazlauskaite , Fehmi Cirak

Accelerated discovery in materials science demands autonomous systems capable of dynamically formulating and solving design problems. In this work, we introduce a novel framework that leverages Bayesian optimization over a problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Danial Khatamsaz , Joseph Wagner , Brent Vela , Raymundo Arroyave , Douglas L. Allaire

Big data analytics frameworks (BDAFs) have been widely used for data processing applications. These frameworks provide a large number of configuration parameters to users, which leads to a tuning issue that overwhelms users. To address this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Liang Bao , Xin Liu , Weizhao Chen

Fine-tuning pretrained language models (PLMs) for downstream tasks is a large-scale optimization problem, in which the choice of the training algorithm critically determines how well the trained model can generalize to unseen test data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Guangliang Liu , Zhiyu Xue , Xitong Zhang , Kristen Marie Johnson , Rongrong Wang

Finding the best configuration of algorithms' hyperparameters for a given optimization problem is an important task in evolutionary computation. We compare in this work the results of four different hyperparameter tuning approaches for a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Furong Ye , Carola Doerr , Hao Wang , Thomas Bäck

AutoMPC is a Python package that automates and optimizes data-driven model predictive control. However, it can be computationally expensive and unstable when exploring large search spaces using pure Bayesian Optimization (BO). To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Baoyu Li , William Edwards , Kris Hauser

Active policy search combines the trial-and-error methodology from policy search with Bayesian optimization to actively find the optimal policy. First, policy search is a type of reinforcement learning which has become very popular for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Optimizing the performance of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications accelerated by graphics processing units (GPUs) is crucial for efficient simulations. In this study, we employed a machine learning-based autotuning technique to…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Weicheng Xue , Christohper John Roy

We propose a performance-based autotuning method for cascade control systems, where the parameters of a linear axis drive motion controller from two control loops are tuned jointly. Using Bayesian optimization as all parameters are tuned…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Mohammad Khosravi , Varsha Behrunani , Piotr Myszkorowski , Roy S. Smith , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

Autotuning is an established technique for optimizing the performance of parallel applications. However, programmers must prepare applications for autotuning, which is tedious and error prone coding work. We demonstrate how applications…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Thomas Karcher , Christopher Guckes , Walter F. Tichy

Automatic performance tuning (auto-tuning) is widely used to optimize performance-critical applications across many scientific domains by finding the best program variant among many choices. Efficient optimization algorithms are crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Floris-Jan Willemsen , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort , Ben van Werkhoven

This paper presents the design of a tune-free (human-out-of-the-loop parameter tuning) control framework, aiming at accelerating large scale autonomous driving system deployed on various vehicles and driving environments. The framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yu Wang , Shu Jiang , Weiman Lin , Yu Cao , Longtao Lin , Jiangtao Hu , Jinghao Miao , Qi Luo

Decarbonization of the transport sector sets increasingly strict demands to maximize thermal efficiency and minimize greenhouse gas emissions of Internal Combustion Engines. This has led to complex engines with a surge in the number of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Maarten Vlaswinkel , Duarte Antunes , Frank Willems

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in diverse real-world scenarios, each governed by bespoke behavioral and safety specifications (spec) custom-tailored by users or organizations. These spec, categorized into safety-spec…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Haoran Zhang , Yafu Li , Xuyang Hu , Dongrui Liu , Zhilin Wang , Bo Li , Yu Cheng