arXiv:2606. 05150v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The radial basis function neural network (RBFN) trained with a gradient descending algorithm provides an effective fully connected structure in both shallow and deep networks.
By Ammar Hoori, Yuichi Motai
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. 25761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When gradient information is unavailable, black-box optimization (BBO) methods provide a practical alternative.
By Johannes Ackermann, Stefano Peluchetti
arXiv:2603. 02970v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce LAGO, a LocAl-Global Optimization framework coupling Bayesian Optimization (BO) and gradient-based trust region local refinement through an adaptive competition mechanism for smooth expensive-to-evaluate objective functions with available gradients.
By Eliott Van Dieren, Tommaso Vanzan, Fabio Nobile
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:2511. 02577v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is widely regarded as one of the most successful deep reinforcement learning algorithms, known for its robustness and effectiveness across a range of problems.
By Gilad Karpel, Ruida Zhou, Shoham Sabach, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh