arXiv:2603. 24567v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Constrained optimization in high-dimensional black-box settings is difficult due to expensive evaluations, the lack of gradient information, and complex feasibility regions.
By Raju Chowdhury, Tanmay Sen, Biswabrata Pradhan
arXiv:2607. 17018v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study distributionally robust linear chance-constrained problems in which uncertainty is modeled by a Gaussian mixture model (GMM).
By Shibshankar Dey, Sanjay Mehrotra
arXiv:2601. 11473v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a novel probabilistic approach for optimal experimental path design.
By Ahmed Attia
arXiv:2607. 23448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Expensive constrained optimization problems in real-world industry design often involve constraint thresholds that are difficult to determine in advance.
By Jin Wang, Xi Lin, Handing Wang
arXiv:2607. 23480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Variational autoencoders (VAEs) transform high-dimensional, often noisy data into a compact latent representation, making downstream optimization more tractable.
By Ye Shi
arXiv:2606. 17192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops constrained diffusion models with primal-dual inference (PDI) to sample from optimal distributions of entropy-regularized optimization problems with \emph{average} constraints.
By Samar Hadou, Yigit Berkay Uslu, Alejandro Ribeiro
arXiv:2607. 18308v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Calibration of grey-box simulation models is a constrained optimization problem in which model evaluations are expensive, the parameter space can be high-dimensional, and the search must respect plausibility constraints.
By David G\'omez-Guill\'en, Mireia Diaz, Josep Lluis Arcos, Jes\'us Cerquides
arXiv:2606. 15359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for planning and control by learning multimodal distributions over actions and trajectories.
By Paolo Giaretta, Zeyang Li, Navid Azizan
arXiv:2603. 19322v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While deep learning (DL)-based methods have achieved remarkable success in continuous wireless resource allocation, efficient solutions for problems involving discrete variables remain challenging.
By Yikun Wang, Yang Li, Yik-Chung Wu, Rui Zhang
arXiv:2505. 04757v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces a novel approach to contextual stochastic optimization, integrating operations research and machine learning to address decision-making under uncertainty.
By Louis Bouvier, Thibault Prunet, Vincent Lecl\`ere, Axel Parmentier
arXiv:2606. 19369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimation-of-distribution algorithms (EDAs) are a powerful class of evolutionary methods for black-box optimization, especially when little is known about the structure of the objective.
By Andreas Faust, Sven Nitzsche, Juergen Becker
arXiv:2602. 05533v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study conditional generation in diffusion models under hard constraints, where generated samples must satisfy prescribed events with probability one.
By Zhengyi Guo, Wenpin Tang, Renyuan Xu