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Bayesian optimization is an effective methodology for the global optimization of functions with expensive evaluations. It relies on querying a distribution over functions defined by a relatively cheap surrogate model. An accurate model for…

Bayesian optimization is a popular formalism for global optimization, but its computational costs limit it to expensive-to-evaluate functions. A competing, computationally more efficient, global optimization framework is optimistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Julia Grosse , Cheng Zhang , Philipp Hennig

We propose an extrinsic Bayesian optimization (eBO) framework for general optimization problems on manifolds. Bayesian optimization algorithms build a surrogate of the objective function by employing Gaussian processes and quantify the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Yihao Fang , Mu Niu , Pokman Cheung , Lizhen Lin

Combinatorial optimization (CO) problems are challenging as the computation time grows exponentially with the input. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) show promise for researchers in solving CO problems. This study investigates the effectiveness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Chenchuhui Hu

Graph neural architecture search (GraphNAS) has demonstrated advantages in mitigating performance degradation of graph neural networks (GNNs) due to distribution shifts. Recent approaches introduce weight sharing across tailored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Qiyi Wang , Yinning Shao , Yunlong Ma , Min Liu

Analog circuit design can be considered as an optimization problem with the targeted circuit specifications as constraints. When stringent circuit specifications are considered, it is desired to have an optimization methodology that adapts…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ria Rashid , Abhishek Gupta

Practical use of neural networks often involves requirements on latency, energy and memory among others. A popular approach to find networks under such requirements is through constrained Neural Architecture Search (NAS). However, previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Niv Nayman , Yonathan Aflalo , Asaf Noy , Rong Jin , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) face two fundamental challenges when scaled to deep architectures: oversmoothing, where node representations converge to indistinguishable vectors, and oversquashing, where information from distant nodes fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular method for efficiently inferring optima of an expensive black-box function via a sequence of queries. Existing information-theoretic BO procedures aim to make queries that most reduce the uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-05 Willie Neiswanger , Lantao Yu , Shengjia Zhao , Chenlin Meng , Stefano Ermon

Graph machine learning has been extensively studied in both academic and industry. However, as the literature on graph learning booms with a vast number of emerging methods and techniques, it becomes increasingly difficult to manually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Xin Wang , Ziwei Zhang , Haoyang Li , Wenwu Zhu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automatically excavate the optimal network architecture with superior test performance. Recent neural architecture search (NAS) approaches rely on validation loss or accuracy to find the superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Joonhyun Jeong , Joonsang Yu , Geondo Park , Dongyoon Han , YoungJoon Yoo

In computer vision research, the process of automating architecture engineering, Neural Architecture Search (NAS), has gained substantial interest. Due to the high computational costs, most recent approaches to NAS as well as the few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jovita Lukasik , David Friede , Heiner Stuckenschmidt , Margret Keuper

We initiate the study of approximation algorithms and computational barriers for constructing sparse $\alpha$-navigable graphs [IX23, DGM+24], a core primitive underlying recent advances in graph-based nearest neighbor search. Given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Sanjeev Khanna , Ashwin Padaki , Erik Waingarten

This paper studies the neural architecture search (NAS) problem for developing efficient generator networks. Compared with deep models for visual recognition tasks, generative adversarial network (GAN) are usually designed to conduct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jiahao Wang , Han Shu , Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang , Yunhe Wang

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a common solution to search optimal hyperparameters based on sample observations of a machine learning model. Existing BO algorithms could converge slowly even collapse when the potential observation noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Lei Cui , Yangguang Li , Xin Lu , Dong An , Fenggang Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable utility across diverse applications, and their growing complexity has made Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) a viable platform for scalable deployment. However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zebin Wang , Menghan Lin , Bolin Shen , Ken Anderson , Molei Liu , Tianxi Cai , Yushun Dong

In recent years, there has been notable interest in investigating combinatorial optimization (CO) problems by neural-based framework. An emerging strategy to tackle these challenging problems involves the adoption of graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yang Liu , Chuan Zhou , Peng Zhang , Shirui Pan , Zhao Li , Hongyang Chen

The challenge of taking many variables into account in optimization problems may be overcome under the hypothesis of low effective dimensionality. Then, the search of solutions can be reduced to the random embedding of a low dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Mickaël Binois , David Ginsbourger , Olivier Roustant

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a key methodology for accelerating molecular discovery by estimating the mapping from molecules to their properties while seeking the optimal candidate. Typically, BO iteratively updates a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Qi Chen , Fabio Ramos , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Florian Shkurti

Subgraph matching is vital in knowledge graph (KG) question answering, molecule design, scene graph, code and circuit search, etc. Neural methods have shown promising results for subgraph matching. Our study of recent systems suggests…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Vaibhav Raj , Indradyumna Roy , Ashwin Ramachandran , Soumen Chakrabarti , Abir De