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In this survey, we introduce Meta-Black-Box-Optimization~(MetaBBO) as an emerging avenue within the Evolutionary Computation~(EC) community, which incorporates Meta-learning approaches to assist automated algorithm design. Despite the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Zeyuan Ma , Hongshu Guo , Yue-Jiao Gong , Jun Zhang , Kay Chen Tan

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular method to optimize costly black-box functions. While traditional BO optimizes each new target task from scratch, meta-learning has emerged as a way to leverage knowledge from related tasks to optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Jiarong Pan , Stefan Falkner , Felix Berkenkamp , Joaquin Vanschoren

Black-Box Optimization (BBO) has found successful applications in many fields of science and engineering. Recently, there has been a growing interest in meta-learning particular components of BBO algorithms to speed up optimization and get…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Lei Song , Chenxiao Gao , Ke Xue , Chenyang Wu , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Zongzhang Zhang , Chao Qian

Automatic Machine Learning (Auto-ML) systems tackle the problem of automating the design of prediction models or pipelines for data science. In this paper, we present Lifelong Bayesian Optimization (LBO), an online, multitask Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-24 Yao Zhang , James Jordon , Ahmed M. Alaa , Mihaela van der Schaar

When gradient-based methods are impractical, black-box optimization (BBO) provides a valuable alternative. However, BBO often struggles with high-dimensional problems and limited trial budgets. In this work, we propose a novel approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Riccardo Busetto , Manas Mejari , Marco Forgione , Alberto Bemporad , Dario Piga

Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) is an emerging avenue within Optimization community, where algorithm design policy could be meta-learned by reinforcement learning to enhance optimization performance. So far, the reward functions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zechuan Huang , Zhiguang Cao , Hongshu Guo , Yue-Jiao Gong , Zeyuan Ma

Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) streamlines the automation of optimization algorithm design through meta-learning. It typically employs a bi-level structure: the meta-level policy undergoes meta-training to reduce the manual effort…

Handcrafted optimizers become prohibitively inefficient for complex black-box optimization (BBO) tasks. MetaBBO addresses this challenge by meta-learning to automatically configure optimizers for low-level BBO tasks, thereby eliminating…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Chao Wang , Licheng Jiao , Lingling Li , Jiaxuan Zhao , Guanchun Wang , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang

Black-box optimization (BBO) has a broad range of applications, including automatic machine learning, engineering, physics, and experimental design. However, it remains a challenge for users to apply BBO methods to their problems at hand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Yang Li , Yu Shen , Wentao Zhang , Yuanwei Chen , Huaijun Jiang , Mingchao Liu , Jiawei Jiang , Jinyang Gao , Wentao Wu , Zhi Yang , Ce Zhang , Bin Cui

To relieve intensive human-expertise required to design optimization algorithms, recent Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) researches leverage generalization strength of meta-learning to train neural network-based algorithm design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Chen Wang , Yue-Jiao Gong , Zhiguang Cao , Zeyuan Ma

Recent Meta-learning for Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) methods harness neural networks to meta-learn configurations of traditional black-box optimizers. Despite their success, they are inevitably restricted by the limitations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Jiacheng Chen , Zeyuan Ma , Hongshu Guo , Yining Ma , Jie Zhang , Yue-Jiao Gong

Recent progress in Meta-Black-Box-Optimization (MetaBBO) has demonstrated that using RL to learn a meta-level policy for dynamic algorithm configuration (DAC) over an optimization task distribution could significantly enhance the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zeyuan Ma , Zhiguang Cao , Zhou Jiang , Hongshu Guo , Yue-Jiao Gong

The pursuit of universal black-box optimization (BBO) algorithms is a longstanding goal. However, unlike domains such as language or vision, where scaling structured data has driven generalization, progress in offline BBO remains hindered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Rong-Xi Tan , Ming Chen , Ke Xue , Yao Wang , Yaoyuan Wang , Sheng Fu , Chao Qian

Real-world applications involve various discrete optimization problems. Designing a specialized optimizer for each of these problems is challenging, typically requiring significant domain knowledge and human efforts. Hence, developing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Shengcai Liu , Zhiyuan Wang , Yew-Soon Ong , Xin Yao , Ke Tang

The landscape of optimization problems has become increasingly complex, necessitating the development of advanced optimization techniques. Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO), which involves refining the optimization algorithms themselves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xu Yang , Rui Wang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Tao Zhang , Fujun He

Recently, Meta-Black-Box Optimization with Reinforcement Learning (MetaBBO-RL) has showcased the power of leveraging RL at the meta-level to mitigate manual fine-tuning of low-level black-box optimizers. However, this field is hindered by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Zeyuan Ma , Hongshu Guo , Jiacheng Chen , Zhenrui Li , Guojun Peng , Yue-Jiao Gong , Yining Ma , Zhiguang Cao

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a well-established method for addressing black-box optimization problems. In many real-world scenarios, optimization often involves multiple functions, emphasizing the importance of leveraging data and learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Khoa Nguyen , Viet Huynh , Binh Tran , Tri Pham , Tin Huynh , Thin Nguyen

A wide spectrum of design and decision problems, including parameter tuning, A/B testing and drug design, intrinsically are instances of black-box optimization. Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful tool that models and optimizes such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Tianyi Bai , Yang Li , Yu Shen , Xinyi Zhang , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui

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

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
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