We’ve discovered that evolution strategies (ES), an optimization technique that’s been known for decades, rivals the performance of standard reinforcement learning (RL) techniques on modern RL benchmarks (e. g.
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:2606. 06984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a general acceleration mechanism for multi-objective Bayesian optimisation (MOBO) that leverages Gaussian process predictive gradients as auxiliary signals.
By Alma Rahat, Tinkle Chugh, Jonathan Fieldsend, Richard Allmendinger
arXiv:2601. 07094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) iteratively fits a Gaussian process (GP) surrogate to accumulated evaluations and selects new queries via an acquisition function.
By Jiguang Li, Hengrui Luo
arXiv:2606. 05888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retry-based objectives such as pass@K and max@K optimize the best return obtained from multiple sampled trajectories, and recent work has shown that they can promote exploration without explicit exploration bonuses.
By Soichiro Nishimori, Paavo Parmas
arXiv:2408. 11629v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a statistical-learning framework for optimization algorithms.
By Peter Ochs, Michael Sucker