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As optimization challenges continue to evolve, so too must our tools and understanding. To effectively assess, validate, and compare optimization algorithms, it is crucial to use a benchmark test suite that encompasses a diverse range of…

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This report provides an introduction to the ensmallen numerical optimization library, as well as a deep dive into the technical details of how it works. The library provides a fast and flexible C++ framework for mathematical optimization of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Ryan R. Curtin , Marcus Edel , Rahul Ganesh Prabhu , Suryoday Basak , Zhihao Lou , Conrad Sanderson

Through recent progress in hardware development, quantum computers have advanced to the point where benchmarking of (heuristic) quantum algorithms at scale is within reach. Particularly in combinatorial optimization - where most algorithms…

Combinatorial optimization problems are prevalent across a wide variety of domains. These problems are often nuanced, their optimal solutions might not be efficiently obtainable, and they may require lots of time and compute resources to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Akshay Sathiya , Rohit Pandey

Most existing memory-enhanced Large Language Model (LLM) approaches implicitly assume that memory validity can be established either through external evaluators that provide task-specific success signals or through internal model cognition,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xingkun Yin , Hongyang Du

We overview the ensmallen numerical optimization library, which provides a flexible C++ framework for mathematical optimization of user-supplied objective functions. Many types of objective functions are supported, including general,…

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We introduce VOPy, an open-source Python library designed to address black-box vector optimization, where multiple objectives must be optimized simultaneously with respect to a partial order induced by a convex cone. VOPy extends beyond…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yaşar Cahit Yıldırım , Efe Mert Karagözlü , İlter Onat Korkmaz , Çağın Ararat , Cem Tekin

To achieve peak predictive performance, hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a crucial component of machine learning and its applications. Over the last years, the number of efficient algorithms and tools for HPO grew substantially. At the…

SOL is an open-source library for scalable online learning algorithms, and is particularly suitable for learning with high-dimensional data. The library provides a family of regular and sparse online learning algorithms for large-scale…

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This work introduces CLBlast, an open-source BLAS library providing optimized OpenCL routines to accelerate dense linear algebra for a wide variety of devices. It is targeted at machine learning and HPC applications and thus provides a fast…

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Mixture of experts (MoE) architectures have become a cornerstone for scaling up and are a key component in most large language models such as GPT-OSS, DeepSeek-V3, Llama-4, and Gemini-2.5. However, systematic research on MoE remains…

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OpenLB is an object-oriented implementation of LBM. It is the first implementation of a generic platform for LBM programming, which is shared with the open source community (GPLv2). Since the first release in 2007, the code has been…

libEnsemble is a Python-based toolkit for running dynamic ensembles, developed as part of the DOE Exascale Computing Project. The toolkit utilizes a unique generator--simulator--allocator paradigm, where generators produce input for…

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This document introduces a set of 24 box-constrained numerical global optimization problem instances, systematically constructed using the Generalized Numerical Benchmark Generator (GNBG). These instances cover a broad spectrum of problem…

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In this paper, we present the Fast Optimizer Benchmark (FOB), a tool designed for evaluating deep learning optimizers during their development. The benchmark supports tasks from multiple domains such as computer vision, natural language…

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Bloom filters are a fundamental data structure for approximate membership queries, with applications ranging from data analytics to databases and genomics. Several variants have been proposed to accommodate parallel architectures. GPUs,…

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Constrained clustering leverages limited domain knowledge to improve clustering performance and interpretability, but incorporating pairwise must-link and cannot-link constraints is an NP-hard challenge, making global optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pedro Chumpitaz-Flores , My Duong , Cristobal Heredia , Kaixun Hua

We present Ecole, a new library to simplify machine learning research for combinatorial optimization. Ecole exposes several key decision tasks arising in general-purpose combinatorial optimization solvers as control problems over Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Antoine Prouvost , Justin Dumouchelle , Lara Scavuzzo , Maxime Gasse , Didier Chételat , Andrea Lodi

This paper presents a Python library to model pooling problems, a class of network flow problems with many engineering applications. The library automatically generates a mixed-integer quadratically-constrained quadratic optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Francesco Ceccon , Ruth Misener

Optimization problems aim to find the optimal solution, which is becoming increasingly complex and difficult to solve. Traditional evolutionary optimization methods always overlook the granular characteristics of solution space. In the real…

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