arXiv:2406. 06629v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This survey examines key advancements in designing features to represent optimization problem instances, algorithm instances, and their interactions within the context of single-objective continuous black-box optimization.
By Gjorgjina Cenikj, Ana Nikolikj, Ga\v{s}per Petelin, Niki van Stein, Carola Doerr, Tome Eftimov
arXiv:2607. 09566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decision-making is posing an increasingly formidable challenge to investors because of the growing number of alternatives available in financial markets.
By Danial Ramezani, Mostafa Abouei Ardakan
arXiv:2606. 03904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-objective optimization (MOO) underlies many machine learning problems, yet MOO solvers across the loss-balancing, gradient-balancing, and Pareto-based families almost universally hand their reconciled directions to Adam~\cite{kingma2015adam}.
By Fengbei Liu, Rachit Saluja, Sunwoo Kwak, Ruibo Wang, Ruining Deng, Heejong Kim, Johannes C. Paetzold, Mert R. Sabuncu
arXiv:2608. 06808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Automatic Construction of Portfolios via Large Language Models (LLM-ACP) suffers from poor generalization in practical few-shot scenarios when solving complex combinatorial optimization problems.
By Shaofeng Zhang, Shengcai Liu, Zhiyuan Wang, Ke Tang
arXiv:2605. 04954v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Per-instance algorithm selection (PIAS) takes advantage of complementarity between a set of algorithms by deciding which algorithm to run on a given instance.
By Koen van der Blom, Diederick Vermetten
arXiv:2608. 03129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model-assisted Evolutionary Search (LES) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for automated algorithm design.
By Qinglong Hu, Qingfu Zhang, Fei Liu, Xialiang Tong, Kun Mao, Mingxuan Yuan
arXiv:2607. 23009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reusing previously computed results is a long-standing principle for reducing computational cost, but such reuse has largely been confined to a single problem's computation.
By Sora Todaka, Akihiro Yamamoto, Nozomi Akashi
arXiv:2606. 19411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Selecting a small, diverse, high-quality subset from a massive pool of candidates is a recurring primitive in modern machine learning -- data curation and coreset selection for training and fine-tuning large models, active-learning batch acquisition, prompt and exemplar selection for in-context learning, retrieval diversification, and experimental design.
By Richard Yi Da Xu
arXiv:2606. 17523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Information-Geometric Optimization (IGO) provides a unified framework for black-box optimization by interpreting the adaptation of a search distribution as a natural gradient update.
By Ryosuke Kimura, Youhei Akimoto
arXiv:2606. 26728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery is fundamentally an optimization problem, defined by a vast "state space" of theories and experiments, and an evaluation criterion based on quality, novelty, and validity.
By Yuan-Hang Zhang, Chesson Sipling, Massimiliano Di Ventra
arXiv:2602. 07764v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) seeks to train agents capable of balancing conflicting objectives.
By Tanmay Ambadkar, Sourav Panda, Shreyash Kale, Jonathan Dodge, Abhinav Verma
arXiv:2508. 07952v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Clustering algorithms often assume all features contribute equally to the data structure, an assumption that usually fails in high-dimensional or noisy settings.
By Richard J. Fawley, Renato Cordeiro de Amorim