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Optimization of problems with high computational power demands is a challenging task. A probabilistic approach to such optimization called Bayesian optimization lowers performance demands by solving mathematically simpler model of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Jakub Klus , Pavel Grunt , Martin Dobrovolný

Optimizing multiple competing objectives is a common problem across science and industry. The inherent inextricable trade-off between those objectives leads one to the task of exploring their Pareto front. A meaningful quantity for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jim Boelrijk , Bernd Ensing , Patrick Forré

Bayesian Optimization is an iterative method, tailored to optimizing expensive black box objective functions. Surrogate models like Gaussian Processes, which are the gold standard in Bayesian Optimization, can be inefficient for inputs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sofianos Panagiotis Fotias , Vassilis Gaganis

Machine learning (ML) methods offer a wide range of configurable hyperparameters that have a significant influence on their performance. While accuracy is a commonly used performance objective, in many settings, it is not sufficient.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Romain Egele , Tyler Chang , Yixuan Sun , Venkatram Vishwanath , Prasanna Balaprakash

Transfer learning enhances model performance in a target population with limited samples by leveraging knowledge from related studies. While many works focus on improving predictive performance, challenges of statistical inference persist.…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-05 Daoyuan Lai , Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla , Tian Gu

In indirect measurements, the measurand is determined by solving an inverse problem which requires a model of the measurement process. Such models are often approximations and introduce systematic errors leading to a bias of the posterior…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-22 Maren Casfor , Philipp Trunschke , Sebastian Heidenreich , Nando Hegemann

The research area of evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) is reaching better understandings of the properties and capabilities of EMO algorithms, and accumulating much evidence of their worth in practical scenarios. An urgent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-08-24 David Corne , Joshua Knowles

Deep learning has shown substantial progress in image analysis. However, the computational demands of large, fully trained models remain a consideration. Transfer learning offers a strategy for adapting pre-trained models to new tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Jacinto Colan , Ana Davila , Yasuhisa Hasegawa

Multi-objective optimization aims to solve problems with competing objectives. Evaluating such problems is often slow or expensive, limiting the budget of evaluations. In many applications, historical data from related optimization tasks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Leonard Papenmeier , Petru Tighineanu

Living organisms exhibit remarkable adaptations across all scales, from molecules to ecosystems. We believe that many of these adaptations correspond to optimal solutions driven by evolution, training, and underlying physical and chemical…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-17 Julio R. Banga , Sebastian Sager

Bayesian optimization (BO) has for sequential optimization of expensive black-box functions demonstrated practicality and effectiveness in many real-world settings. Meta-Bayesian optimization (meta-BO) focuses on improving the sample…

Optimising black-box functions is important in many disciplines, such as tuning machine learning models, robotics, finance and mining exploration. Bayesian optimisation is a state-of-the-art technique for the global optimisation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-05 John-Alexander M. Assael , Ziyu Wang , Bobak Shahriari , Nando de Freitas

This paper gives a concise overview of evolutionary algorithms for multiobjective optimization. A substantial number of evolutionary computation methods for multiobjective problem solving has been proposed so far, and an attempt of unifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-21 Arnaud Liefooghe , Laetitia Jourdan , El-Ghazali Talbi

The aim of global optimization is to find the global optimum of arbitrary classes of functions, possibly highly multimodal ones. In this paper we focus on the subproblem of global optimization for differentiable functions and we propose an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Louis Faury , Flavian Vasile , Clément Calauzènes , Olivier Fercoq

Radio resource allocation often calls for the optimization of black-box objective functions whose evaluation is expensive in real-world deployments. Conventional optimization methods apply separately to each new system configuration,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Yunchuan Zhang , Sangwoo Park , Osvaldo Simeone

Bayesian optimization is an approach to optimizing objective functions that take a long time (minutes or hours) to evaluate. It is best-suited for optimization over continuous domains of less than 20 dimensions, and tolerates stochastic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-10 Peter I. Frazier

Bayesian optimization is used in many areas of AI for the optimization of black-box processes and has achieved impressive improvements of the state of the art for a lot of applications. It intelligently explores large and complex design…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-03 Lars Kotthoff , Hud Wahab , Patrick Johnson

Multitask learning is widely used in practice to train a low-resource target task by augmenting it with multiple related source tasks. Yet, naively combining all the source tasks with a target task does not always improve the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Dongyue Li , Huy L. Nguyen , Hongyang R. Zhang

Evolutionary multitasking has recently emerged as a novel paradigm that enables the similarities and/or latent complementarities (if present) between distinct optimization tasks to be exploited in an autonomous manner simply by solving them…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Abhishek Gupta , Yew-Soon Ong

Inverse problems are ubiquitous in nature, arising in almost all areas of science and engineering ranging from geophysics and climate science to astrophysics and biomechanics. One of the central challenges in solving inverse problems is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-21 Dhruv V Patel , Deep Ray , Assad A Oberai