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Benchmarking is essential for developing and evaluating black-box optimization algorithms, providing a structured means to analyze their search behavior. Its effectiveness relies on carefully selected problem sets used for evaluation. To…

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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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Urban Skvorc , Niki van Stein , Moritz Seiler , Britta Grimme , Thomas Bäck , Heike Trautmann

We present a developmental framework based on a long-term memory and reasoning mechanisms (Vision Similarity and Bayesian Optimisation). This architecture allows a robot to optimize autonomously hyper-parameters that need to be tuned from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Maxime Petit , Amaury Depierre , Xiaofang Wang , Emmanuel Dellandréa , Liming Chen

Black box systems for automated decision making, often based on machine learning over (big) data, map a user's features into a class or a score without exposing the reasons why. This is problematic not only for lack of transparency, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Dino Pedreschi , Fosca Giannotti , Riccardo Guidotti , Anna Monreale , Luca Pappalardo , Salvatore Ruggieri , Franco Turini

The number of studies that combine Evolutionary Machine Learning and self-supervised learning has been growing steadily in recent years. Evolutionary Machine Learning has been shown to help automate the design of machine learning algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Adriano Vinhas , João Correia , Penousal Machado

The use of blackbox solvers inside neural networks is a relatively new area which aims to improve neural network performance by including proven, efficient solvers for complex problems. Existing work has created methods for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 T. J. Wilder

Ensembles are popular methods for solving practical supervised learning problems. They reduce the risk of having underperforming models in production-grade software. Although critical, methods for learning heterogeneous regression ensembles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Jihed Khiari , Luis Moreira-Matias , Ammar Shaker , Bernard Zenko , Saso Dzeroski

Black-box optimization (BBO) algorithms are concerned with finding the best solutions for problems with missing analytical details. Most classical methods for such problems are based on strong and fixed a priori assumptions, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Minfang Lu , Shuai Ning , Shuangrong Liu , Fengyang Sun , Bo Zhang , Bo Yang , Lin Wang

Evolutionary and bioinspired computation are crucial for efficiently addressing complex optimization problems across diverse application domains. By mimicking processes observed in nature, like evolution itself, these algorithms offer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Daniel Molina , Javier Del Ser , Javier Poyatos , Francisco Herrera

Meta-learning, or "learning to learn," is a subfield of machine learning where the goal is to develop models and algorithms that can learn from various tasks and improve their learning process over time. Unlike traditional machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Mouad El Bouchattaoui

Extending a recent suggestion to generate new instances for numerical black-box optimization benchmarking by interpolating pairs of the well-established BBOB functions from the COmparing COntinuous Optimizers (COCO) platform, we propose in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Diederick Vermetten , Furong Ye , Thomas Bäck , Carola Doerr

Solving an optimization task in any domain is a very challenging problem, especially when dealing with nonlinear problems and non-convex functions. Many meta-heuristic algorithms are very efficient when solving nonlinear functions. A…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mona Nasr , Omar Farouk , Ahmed Mohamedeen , Ali Elrafie , Marwan Bedeir , Ali Khaled

Most deep learning models are easily vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Various adversarial attacks are designed to evaluate the robustness of models and develop defense model. Currently, adversarial attacks are brought up to attack their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Jinyin Chen , Mengmeng Su , Shijing Shen , Hui Xiong , Haibin Zheng

Choosing a set of benchmark problems is often a key component of any empirical evaluation of iterative optimization heuristics. In continuous, single-objective optimization, several sets of problems have become widespread, including the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Diederick Vermetten , Furong Ye , Thomas Bäck , Carola Doerr

Optimization is ubiquitous in our daily lives. In the past, (sub-)optimal solutions to any problem have been derived by trial and error, sheer luck, or the expertise of knowledgeable individuals. In our contemporary age, there thankfully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Raphael Patrick Prager

Some real problems require the evaluation of expensive and noisy objective functions. Moreover, the analytical expression of these objective functions may be unknown. These functions are known as black-boxes, for example, estimating the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-12 Lucia Asencio Martín , Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán

Population-based evolutionary algorithms are often considered when approaching computationally expensive black-box optimization problems. They employ a selection mechanism to choose the best solutions from a given population after comparing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Judith Echevarrieta , Etor Arza , Aritz Pérez

Evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) algorithms have been demonstrated to be effective in solving multi-criteria decision-making problems. In real-world applications, analysts often employ several algorithms concurrently and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yansong Huang , Zherui Zhang , Ao Jiao , Yuxin Ma , Ran Cheng

Engineers learn from every design they create, building intuition that helps them quickly identify promising solutions for new problems. Topology optimization (TO) - a well-established computational method for designing structures with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Igor Kuszczak , Gawel Kus , Federico Bosi , Miguel A. Bessa

Black-box optimization (BBO) underpins advances in domains such as AutoML and Materials Informatics, yet implementations of algorithms and benchmarks remain fragmented across research communities. We introduce OptunaHub…

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