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Automated algorithm selection promises to support the user in the decisive task of selecting a most suitable algorithm for a given problem. A common component of these machine-trained techniques are regression models which predict the…
Selecting the most suitable algorithm and determining its hyperparameters for a given optimization problem is a challenging task. Accurately predicting how well a certain algorithm could solve the problem is hence desirable. Recent studies…
Exploratory landscape analysis (ELA) supports supervised learning approaches for automated algorithm selection and configuration by providing sets of features that quantify the most relevant characteristics of the optimization problem at…
Automated Algorithm Selection (AAS) is a popular meta-algorithmic approach and has demonstrated to work well for single-objective optimisation in combination with exploratory landscape features (ELA), i.e., (numerical) descriptive features…
Choosing the best-performing optimizer(s) out of a portfolio of optimization algorithms is usually a difficult and complex task. It gets even worse, if the underlying functions are unknown, i.e., so-called Black-Box problems, and function…
Exploratory landscape analysis (ELA) is a well-established tool to characterize optimization problems via numerical features. ELA is used for problem comprehension, algorithm design, and applications such as automated algorithm selection…
Algorithm selection, aiming to identify the best algorithm for a given problem, plays a pivotal role in continuous black-box optimization. A common approach involves representing optimization functions using a set of features, which are…
In many recent works, the potential of Exploratory Landscape Analysis (ELA) features to numerically characterize, in particular, single-objective continuous optimization problems has been demonstrated. These numerical features provide the…
The selection of the most appropriate algorithm to solve a given problem instance, known as algorithm selection, is driven by the potential to capitalize on the complementary performance of different algorithms across sets of problem…
Per-instance algorithm selection seeks to recommend, for a given problem instance and a given performance criterion, one or several suitable algorithms that are expected to perform well for the particular setting. The selection is…
Automated algorithm selection and configuration methods that build on exploratory landscape analysis (ELA) are becoming very popular in Evolutionary Computation. However, despite a significantly growing number of applications, the…
Landscape-aware algorithm selection approaches have so far mostly been relying on landscape feature extraction as a preprocessing step, independent of the execution of optimization algorithms in the portfolio. This introduces a significant…
Facilitated by the recent advances of Machine Learning (ML), the automated design of optimization heuristics is currently shaking up evolutionary computation (EC). Where the design of hand-picked guidelines for choosing a most suitable…
Benchmarking in continuous black-box optimisation is hindered by the limited structural diversity of existing test suites such as BBOB. We explore whether large language models embedded in an evolutionary loop can be used to design…
Exploratory Landscape Analysis (ELA) provides numerical features for characterizing black-box optimization problems. In high-dimensional settings, however, ELA suffers from sparsity effects, high estimator variance, and the prohibitive cost…
In this paper, we build upon previous work on designing informative and efficient Exploratory Landscape Analysis features for characterizing problems' landscapes and show their effectiveness in automatically constructing algorithm selection…
Although exploratory landscape analysis (ELA) has shown its effectiveness in various applications, most previous studies focused only on low- and moderate-dimensional problems. Thus, little is known about the scalability of the ELA approach…
Knowledge of search-landscape features of BlackBox Optimization (BBO) problems offers valuable information in light of the Algorithm Selection and/or Configuration problems. Exploratory Landscape Analysis (ELA) models have gained success in…
Predicting the performance of an optimization algorithm on a new problem instance is crucial in order to select the most appropriate algorithm for solving that problem instance. For this purpose, recent studies learn a supervised machine…
Recent approaches to training algorithm selectors in the black-box optimisation domain have advocated for the use of training data that is algorithm-centric in order to encapsulate information about how an algorithm performs on an instance,…