arXiv:2606. 25761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When gradient information is unavailable, black-box optimization (BBO) methods provide a practical alternative.
arXiv:2606. 00862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) have been widely used for expensive black-box optimization problems.
arXiv:2405. 03728v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot optimization involves optimizing a target task that was not seen during training, aiming to provide the optimal solution without or with minimal adjustments to the optimizer.
The paper introduces ZFO, a lightweight framework that separates direction selection from step-size determination in large‑scale neural network optimization. ZFO uses a trusted first‑order optimizer to pick a search direction and then performs only two additional objective evaluations to build a local curvature‑aware model, selecting an adaptive step within a bounded interval. The authors provide theoretical guarantees for reliable curvature estimation, near‑optimal step selection, and convergence to a stationary point, and demonstrate that ZFO improves optimization and final performance over fixed‑step first‑order baselines on language‑model fine‑tuning tasks.
arXiv:2608. 03045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider grey-box optimization problems where the decision variables naturally partition into black-box variables (as arguments to an expensive black-box function) and white-box variables, governed by a set of explicit, closed-form equations that also depend on the output of the black-box function.
arXiv:2603. 24084v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Empirical evaluation in multi-objective search (MOS) has historically suffered from fragmentation, relying on heterogeneous problem instances with incompatible objective definitions that make cross-study comparisons difficult.
arXiv:2606. 07841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Black-box variational inference (BBVI) is a methodology for posterior approximation that relies on stochastic optimization.
arXiv:2609.01493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Black-Box Optimization (BBO) has found broad applications, but evolutionary algorithms and Bayesian optimization face efficiency challenges as real-w...
arXiv:2609.38855v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models based on generative frameworks, such as Flow Matching, have recently achieved impressive performance in robotic m...
arXiv:2607. 04033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimizer selection for large-scale model training has become a system-level design decision constrained jointly by compute, memory, tuning budget, and task diversity, yet the landscape of over one hundred methods remains fragmented.
arXiv:2603. 29730v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present mlr3mbo, a modular toolbox for Bayesian optimization in R.
arXiv:2607. 09736v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The high-angle-of-attack flip maneuver of reusable launch vehicles presents significant challenges for robust trajectory optimization due to the combined effects of highly nonlinear dynamics, aerodynamic uncertainties, and actuator saturation.
arXiv:2602. 07764v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) seeks to train agents capable of balancing conflicting objectives.