English
Related papers

Related papers: Multi-Task Surrogate-Assisted Search with Bayesian…

200 papers

We study how to accelerate Bayesian optimization (BO) on a target task by transferring historical knowledge from related source tasks. Existing work on BO with knowledge transfer either lacks theoretical guarantees or achieves the same…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-29 Haitao Lin , Boxin Zhao , Mladen Kolar , Chong Liu

To lower the expertise barrier in machine learning, the AutoML community has focused on the CASH problem, which jointly automates algorithm selection and hyperparameter tuning. While traditional methods like Bayesian Optimization (BO)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Beicheng Xu , Weitong Qian , Lingching Tung , Yupeng Lu , Bin Cui

In literature, Clustered Shortest-Path Tree Problem (CluSPT) is an NP-hard problem. Previous studies often search for an optimal solution in relatively large space. To enhance the performance of the search process, two approaches are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Phan Thi Hong Hanh , Pham Dinh Thanh , Huynh Thi Thanh Binh

This paper presents the application of socio-cognitive mutation operators inspired by the TOPSIS method to the Low Autocorrelation Binary Sequence (LABS) problem. Traditional evolutionary algorithms, while effective, often suffer from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Aleksandra Urbańczyk , Bogumiła Papiernik , Piotr Magiera , Piotr Urbańczyk , Aleksander Byrski

Entity-aware machine translation (EAMT) is a complicated task in natural language processing due to not only the shortage of translation data related to the entities needed to translate but also the complexity in the context needed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 An Trieu , Phuong Nguyen , Minh Le Nguyen

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as a promising avenue for automatically designing task-specific neural networks. Existing NAS approaches require one complete search for each deployment specification of hardware or objective.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhichao Lu , Gautam Sreekumar , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf , Kalyanmoy Deb , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

The early pioneering Neural Architecture Search (NAS) works were multi-trial methods applicable to any general search space. The subsequent works took advantage of the early findings and developed weight-sharing methods that assume a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Hyunghun Cho , Jungwook Shin , Wonjong Rhee

Linguistic knowledge plays a crucial role in spoken language comprehension. It provides essential semantic and syntactic context for speech perception in noisy environments. However, most speech enhancement (SE) methods predominantly rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Xugang Lu , Szu-Wei Fu , Huan-Hsin Tseng , Hsin-Yi Lin , Chii-Wann Lin , Yu Tsao

To fully leverage the multi-task optimization paradigm for accelerating the solution of expensive scheduling problems, this study has effectively tackled three vital concerns. The primary issue is identifying auxiliary tasks that closely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Minshuo Li , Bo Liu , Bin Xin , Liang Feng , Peng Li

Novelty search (NS) refers to a class of exploration algorithms that seek to uncover diverse system behaviors through simulations or experiments. Such diversity is central to many AI-driven discovery and design tasks, including material and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-31 Wei-Ting Tang , Ankush Chakrabarty , Joel A. Paulson

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a powerful method for optimizing black-box functions by combining prior knowledge with ongoing function evaluations. BO constructs a probabilistic surrogate model of the objective function given the covariates,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Roi Naveiro , Becky Tang

We consider the problem of offline black-box optimization, where the goal is to discover optimal designs (e.g., molecules or materials) from past experimental data. A key challenge in this setting is data scarcity: in many scientific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Azza Fadhel , The Hung Tran , Trong Nghia Hoang , Jana Doppa

Bayesian optimization has emerged as a highly effective tool for the safe online optimization of systems, due to its high sample efficiency and noise robustness. To further enhance its efficiency, reduced physical models of the system can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jannis O. Lübsen , Christian Hespe , Annika Eichler

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO), formulated as black-box optimization (BBO), is recognized as essential for automation and high performance of machine learning approaches. The CMA-ES is a promising BBO approach with a high degree of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Masahiro Nomura , Shuhei Watanabe , Youhei Akimoto , Yoshihiko Ozaki , Masaki Onishi

Bayesian optimization has been shown to be a powerful tool for solving black box problems during online accelerator optimization. The major advantage of Bayesian based optimization techniques is the ability to include prior information…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Connie Xu , Ryan Roussel , Auralee Edelen

This work is in the context of blackbox optimization where the functions defining the problem are expensive to evaluate and where no derivatives are available. A tried and tested technique is to build surrogates of the objective and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Charles Audet , Sébastien Le Digabel , Renaud Saltet

Online field experiments are the gold-standard way of evaluating changes to real-world interactive machine learning systems. Yet our ability to explore complex, multi-dimensional policy spaces - such as those found in recommendation and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-30 Benjamin Letham , Eytan Bakshy

Determining the atomic configuration of an interface is one of the most important issues in materials science research. Although theoretical simulations are effective tools, an exhaustive search is computationally prohibitive due to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-28 Tomohiro Yonezu , Tomoyuki Tamura , Ichiro Takeuchi , Masayuki Karasuyama

In this paper, we propose a novel approach (SAPEO) to support the survival selection process in multi-objective evolutionary algorithms with surrogate models - it dynamically chooses individuals to evaluate exactly based on the model…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Vanessa Volz , Günter Rudolph , Boris Naujoks

In engineering design and scientific computing, computational cost and predictive accuracy are intrinsically coupled. High-fidelity simulations provide accurate predictions but at substantial computational costs, while lower-fidelity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ahmed Mohamed Eisa Nasr , Ali Elham , Haris Moazam Sheikh