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Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a widely used approach for blackbox optimization that leverages a Gaussian process (GP) model and an acquisition function to guide future sampling. While effective in low-dimensional settings, BO faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Pavankumar Koratikere , Leifur Leifsson

This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm with a new goal-sequence domination scheme for better decision support in multi-objective optimization. The approach allows the inclusion of advanced hard/soft priority and constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 E. F. Khor , T. H. Lee , R. Sathikannan , K. C. Tan

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular approach for sample-efficient optimization of black-box objective functions. While BO has been successfully applied to a wide range of scientific applications, traditional approaches to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Natalie Maus , Kaiwen Wu , David Eriksson , Jacob Gardner

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

Evolutionary algorithms, inspired by natural evolution, aim to optimize difficult objective functions without computing derivatives. Here we detail the relationship between population genetics and evolutionary optimization and formulate a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-19 Jakub Otwinowski , Colin LaMont

We propose a multi-swarm approach to approximate the Pareto front of general multi-objective optimization problems that is based on the Consensus-based Optimization method (CBO). The algorithm is motivated step by step beginning with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Kathrin Klamroth , Michael Stiglmayr , Claudia Totzeck

Although a large number of optimization algorithms have been proposed for black box optimization problems, the no free lunch theorems inform us that no algorithm can beat others on all types of problems. Different types of optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Yaodong He , Shiu Yin Yuen

In this paper, the idea of a new artificial intelligence based optimization algorithm, which is inspired from the nature of vortex, has been provided briefly. As also a bio-inspired computation algorithm, the idea is generally focused on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Utku Kose , Ahmet Arslan

Bayesian optimization (BO) is an effective technique for black-box optimization. However, its applicability is typically limited to moderate-budget problems due to the cubic complexity of fitting the Gaussian process (GP) surrogate model.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-13 Qiyu Wei , Haowei Wang , Zirui Cao , Songhao Wang , Richard Allmendinger , Mauricio A Álvarez

Robotic systems for manipulation tasks are increasingly expected to be easy to configure for new tasks. While in the past, robot programs were often written statically and tuned manually, the current, faster transition times call for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jonathan Styrud , Matthias Mayr , Erik Hellsten , Volker Krueger , Christian Smith

In this paper, we present an open-source pure-Python library called PyPop7 for black-box optimization (BBO). As population-based methods (e.g., evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, and pattern search) become increasingly popular for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Qiqi Duan , Guochen Zhou , Chang Shao , Zhuowei Wang , Mingyang Feng , Yuwei Huang , Yajing Tan , Yijun Yang , Qi Zhao , Yuhui Shi

Bayesian optimisation (BO) is a powerful framework for global optimisation of costly functions, using predictions from Gaussian process models (GPs). In this work, we apply BO to functions that exhibit invariance to a known group of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Theodore Brown , Alexandru Cioba , Ilija Bogunovic

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a method for globally optimizing black-box functions. While BO has been successfully applied to many scenarios, developing effective BO algorithms that scale to functions with high-dimensional domains is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yihang Shen , Carl Kingsford

We study the problem of globally optimising a target variable of an unknown causal graph on which a sequence of soft or hard interventions can be performed. The problem of optimising the target variable associated with a causal graph is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Sumantrak Mukherjee , Mengyan Zhang , Seth Flaxman , Sebastian Josef Vollmer

We propose a novel surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for solving expensive combinatorial optimization problems. We integrate a surrogate model, which is used for fitness value estimation, into a state-of-the-art P3-like variant of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

For the last few decades, optimization has been developing at a fast rate. Bio-inspired optimization algorithms are metaheuristics inspired by nature. These algorithms have been applied to solve different problems in engineering, economics,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-17 Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad

In this paper we propose a variant of a consensus-based global optimization (CBO) method that uses personal best information in order to compute the global minimum of a non-convex, locally Lipschitz continuous function. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Claudia Totzeck , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a widely-used method for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions. Traditional BO assumes that the learner has full control over all query variables without additional constraints. However, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Vu Viet Hoang , Quoc Anh Hoang Nguyen , Hung Tran The

A novel multiscale consensus-based optimization (CBO) algorithm for solving bi- and tri-level optimization problems is introduced. Existing CBO techniques are generalized by the proposed method through the employment of multiple interacting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Michael Herty , Yuyang Huang , Dante Kalise , Hicham Kouhkouh

Robust optimization aims to find optimum points from the collection of points that are feasible for every possible scenario of a given uncertain set. An optimum solution to a robust optimization problem is commonly found by the min-max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Nand Kishor , Debdas Ghosh , Xiaopeng Zhao