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Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning approach that trains machine learning models across multiple devices while keeping their local data private. However, FL often faces challenges due to data heterogeneity, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Dun Zeng , Zheshun Wu , Shiyu Liu , Yu Pan , Xiaoying Tang , Zenglin Xu

The advancement of artificial intelligence has cast a new light on the development of optimization algorithm. This paper proposes to learn a two-phase (including a minimization phase and an escaping phase) global optimization algorithm for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Haotian Zhang , Jianyong Sun , Zongben Xu

A variety of optimization algorithms have been developed to solve engineering design problems in which the solution space is too large to manually determine the optimal solution. The Modular Optimization Framework (MOF) was developed to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Brian Andersen , Gregory Delipei , David Kropaczek , Jason Hou

Machine learning frameworks adopt iterative optimizers to train neural networks. Conventional eager execution separates the updating of trainable parameters from forward and backward computations. However, this approach introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Zixuan Jiang , Jiaqi Gu , Mingjie Liu , Keren Zhu , David Z. Pan

We present a deep reinforcement learning approach to minimizing the execution cost of neural network computation graphs in an optimizing compiler. Unlike earlier learning-based works that require training the optimizer on the same graph to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Aditya Paliwal , Felix Gimeno , Vinod Nair , Yujia Li , Miles Lubin , Pushmeet Kohli , Oriol Vinyals

The growing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs), electric vehicles (EVs), and heat pumps (HPs) in distribution networks underscores the need for secure, computationally efficient optimal power flow (OPF) solutions.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Savvas Panagi , Chrysovalantis Spanias , Petros Aristidou

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in combining learnable modules with numerical optimization to solve low-level vision tasks. However, most existing approaches focus on designing specialized schemes to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Risheng Liu , Zhu Liu , Pan Mu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Iterative differential approximation methods that rely upon backpropagation have enabled the optimization of neural networks; however, at present, they remain computationally expensive, especially when training models at scale. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Jake Ryland Williams , Haoran Zhao

Molecular conformation generation (MCG) is a fundamental and important problem in drug discovery. Many traditional methods have been developed to solve the MCG problem, such as systematic searching, model-building, random searching,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Gengmo Zhou , Zhifeng Gao , Zhewei Wei , Hang Zheng , Guolin Ke

The training of molecular models of quantum mechanical properties based on statistical machine learning requires large datasets which exemplify the map from chemical structure to molecular property. Intelligent a priori selection of…

Reservoir simulations are computationally expensive in the well control and well placement optimization. Generally, numerous simulation runs (realizations) are needed in order to achieve the optimal well locations. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Haoyu Tang , Wennan Long

The computational expense of solving non-equilibrium chemistry equations in astrophysical simulations poses a significant challenge, particularly in high-resolution, large-scale cosmological models. In this work, we explore the potential of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Pelle van de Bor , John Brennan , John A. Regan , Jonathan Mackey

When training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) there is a large emphasis on creating efficient optimization algorithms and highly accurate networks. The state-of-the-art method of optimizing the networks is done by using gradient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Manuel Bradicic , Michal Sitarz , Felix Sylvest Olesen

Generating molecular graphs is crucial in drug design and discovery but remains challenging due to the complex interdependencies between nodes and edges. While diffusion models have demonstrated their potentiality in molecular graph design,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Xiaoyang Hou , Tian Zhu , Milong Ren , Dongbo Bu , Xin Gao , Chunming Zhang , Shiwei Sun

We consider non-differentiable dynamic optimization problems such as those arising in robotics and subspace tracking. Given the computational constraints and the time-varying nature of the problem, a low-complexity algorithm is desirable,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Rishabh Dixit , Amrit Singh Bedi , Ruchi Tripathi , Ketan Rajawat

Neuro-symbolic reasoning systems face fundamental challenges in maintaining semantic coherence while satisfying physical and logical constraints. Building upon our previous work on Ontology Neural Networks, we present an enhanced framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jaehong Oh

In this work, we propose to employ information-geometric tools to optimize a graph neural network architecture such as the graph convolutional networks. More specifically, we develop optimization algorithms for the graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Yihao Fang , Robert Stevenson , Lizhen Lin

Exploring molecular energy landscapes and identifying ground-state conformations are central challenges in computational chemistry. However, generating diverse low-energy conformers from molecular graphs remains expensive with traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Guikun Xu , Xiaohan Yi , Ziqiao Meng , Peilin Zhao , Yatao Bian

As the complexity of neural network models has grown, it has become increasingly important to optimize their design automatically through metalearning. Methods for discovering hyperparameters, topologies, and learning rate schedules have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Santiago Gonzalez , Risto Miikkulainen

Molecule optimization is a critical step in drug development to improve desired properties of drug candidates through chemical modification. We developed a novel deep generative model Modof over molecular graphs for molecule optimization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Ziqi Chen , Martin Renqiang Min , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning