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Recently the engineering optimization problems require large computational demands and long solution time even on high multi-processors computational devices. In this paper, an OpenMP inspired parallel version of the whale optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Amr M. Sauber , Mohammed M. Nasef , Essam H. Houssein , Aboul Ella Hassanien

Existing open-source modeling frameworks dedicated to energy systems optimization typically utilize (mixed-integer) linear programming ((MI)LP) formulations, which lack modeling freedom for technical system design and operation. We present…

Benchmarks are essential tools for the optimizer's development. Using them, we can check for what kind of problems a given optimizer is effective or not. Since the objective of the Evolutionary Computation field is to support the tools to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Michal W. Przewozniczek , Bartosz Frej , Marcin M. Komarnicki

We present GreenMalloc, a multi objective search-based framework for automatically configuring memory allocators. Our approach uses NSGA II and rand_malloc as a lightweight proxy benchmarking tool. We efficiently explore allocator…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Aidan Dakhama , W. B. Langdon , Hector D. Menendez , Karine Even-Mendoza

GlobalBioIm is an open-source MATLAB library for solving inverse problems. The library capitalizes on the strong commonalities between forward models to standardize the resolution of a wide range of imaging inverse problems. Endowed with an…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Emmanuel Soubies , Ferréol Soulez , Michael T. McCann , Thanh-an Pham , Laurène Donati , Thomas Debarre , Daniel Sage , Michael Unser

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable atomistic simulations with near ab initio accuracy at significantly reduced computational cost, but their broader adoption is often limited by fragmented tooling, limited scalability,…

Gradient-based multilevel optimization (MLO) has gained attention as a framework for studying numerous problems, ranging from hyperparameter optimization and meta-learning to neural architecture search and reinforcement learning. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Sang Keun Choe , Willie Neiswanger , Pengtao Xie , Eric Xing

Global optimization is a challenging problem, with plenty of algorithms displaying empirical success, but scarce theoretical backing. In this work, we propose a new theoretical framework called Proximal Basin Hopping (PBH), carefully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Guillaume Lauga , Cesare Molinari , Samuel Vaiter

Linear operators and optimisation are at the core of many algorithms used in signal and image processing, remote sensing, and inverse problems. For small to medium-scale problems, existing software packages (e.g., MATLAB, Python numpy and…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Matteo Ravasi , Ivan Vasconcelos

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great potential in various language processing tasks, and recent studies have explored their application in compiler optimizations. However, all these studies focus on the conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Xiangxin Fang , Lev Mukhanov

Quantum computing has the potential to surpass the capabilities of current classical computers when solving complex problems. Combinatorial optimization has emerged as one of the key target areas for quantum computers as problems found in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Juan Giraldo , José Ossorio , Norha M. Villegas , Gabriel Tamura , Ulrike Stege

The rise of big data systems has created a need for benchmarks to measure and compare the capabilities of these systems. Big data benchmarks present unique scalability challenges. The supercomputing community has wrestled with these…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Patrick Dreher , Chansup Byun , Chris Hill , Vijay Gadepally , Bradley Kuszmaul , Jeremy Kepner

The evaluation of clustering algorithms can involve running them on a variety of benchmark problems, and comparing their outputs to the reference, ground-truth groupings provided by experts. Unfortunately, many research papers and graduate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Marek Gagolewski

We study sample-efficient molecular optimization under a limited budget of oracle evaluations. We propose MolLIBRA (MultimOdaLity and Language Integrated Bayesian and evolutionaRy optimizAtion), a genetic algorithm based framework that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Masahi Okada , Kazuki Sakai , Hiroaki Yoshida , Masaki Okoshi , Tadahiro Taniguchi

As Machine Learning (ML) gains adoption across industries and new use cases, practitioners increasingly realize the challenges around effectively developing and iterating on ML systems: reproducibility, debugging, scalability, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Jacopo Tagliabue , Hugo Bowne-Anderson , Ville Tuulos , Savin Goyal , Romain Cledat , David Berg

We introduce cilantro, an open-source C++ library for geometric and general-purpose point cloud data processing. The library provides functionality that covers low-level point cloud operations, spatial reasoning, various methods for point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Konstantinos Zampogiannis , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Exascale computing will feature novel and potentially disruptive hardware architectures. Exploiting these to their full potential is non-trivial. Numerical modelling frameworks involving finite difference methods are currently limited by…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Christian T. Jacobs , Satya P. Jammy , Neil D. Sandham

Writing high performance solvers for engineering applications is a delicate task. These codes are often developed on an application to application basis, highly optimized to solve a certain problem. Here, we present our work on developing a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Niclas Jansson , Rahul Bale , Keiji Onishi , Makoto Tsubokura

Sampling-based planning algorithms are the most common probabilistically complete algorithms and are widely used on many robot platforms. Within this class of algorithms, many variants have been proposed over the last 20 years, yet there is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Mark Moll , Ioan A. Sucan , Lydia E. Kavraki