arXiv:2608. 11258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient injection helps Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) only when the swarm has identified a basin with smooth local structure, not universally.
By Aryan Gurudeo
arXiv:2607. 11826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has automated the design of deep learning models but traditionally requires massive computational resources, often measured in thousands of GPU-days.
By Romain Amigon
arXiv:2606. 02936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this manuscript, we propose and analyze hierarchical Kolmogorov--Arnold neural network architectures employing radial basis functions as activation functions for approximating deterministic functions and random field models.
By Mingtao Xia, Qijing Shen
arXiv:2607. 19031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated algorithm selection in black-box optimization typically relies on supervised models that map landscape features to algorithm performance labels.
By Yihang Lu, Tome Eftimov, Carola Doerr
arXiv:2608. 14472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automate neural network architecture design, reducing reliance on human expertise.
By Abhishek Shukla, Ankur Sinha, Faiz Hamid
arXiv:2606. 04039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural-guided Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) suffers from a fundamental training-inference misalignment: policies are typically trained to generate static priors (e.
By Dat Thanh Tran, Van Khu Vu, Yining Ma
arXiv:2606. 00862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) have been widely used for expensive black-box optimization problems.
By Xiao Jin, Yongxiong Wang, Haobo Liu, Yudong Du, Yukun Du
arXiv:2608. 14443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is naturally formulated as a bilevel optimization problem, where the upper-level optimizes the architecture using validation performance and the lower-level trains network parameters using training loss.
By Abhishek Shukla, Ankur Sinha, Faiz Hamid
arXiv:2606. 04033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The validation of advanced nuclear reactor designs and fuel concepts requires critical experiments with high neutronic similarity to the target technology.
By Will Savage, Logan Burnett, Dean Price
arXiv:2512. 18921v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The present paper introduces concurrency-driven enhancements to the training algorithm for the Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) that is based on the Newton-Kaczmarz (NK) method.
By Andrew Polar, Michael Poluektov
arXiv:2606. 29582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bilevel optimization has become an influential and widely adopted framework for addressing hierarchical optimization problems in machine learning, providing an effective approach to modeling the interaction between two levels of optimization, with applications such as hyperparameter tuning, meta-learning, adversarial training, and data poisoning.
By Abhishek Shukla, Ankur Sinha, Faiz Hamid
arXiv:2606. 07615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks often contain redundant hidden units.
By Salem Ameen, Sunil Vadera