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most citedAdaptive Stochastic Natural Gradient Method for One-Shot Neural Architecture Search

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cs.NE2026

Weight Adaptation for Improving Parallel Performance of Adaptive Stochastic Natural Gradient

Yutaro Yamada, Kento Uchida, Shinichi Shirakawa

Probabilistic model-based evolutionary algorithms are promising for black-box optimization. Specifically, the adaptive stochastic natural gradient (ASNG) adaptively updates its lea…

cs.NE2026

Convergence Analysis of Evolution Strategies for Mixed-Integer Optimization

Ryoki Hamano, Kento Uchida, Shinichi Shirakawa

Mixed-integer extensions of evolution strategies (ES) that discretize selected coordinates of sampled continuous vectors often impose a lower bound on the standard deviation of int…

cs.NE2026

Adaptive Stochastic Natural Gradient Method for Safe Optimization on Binary Space

Kento Uchida, Ryoki Hamano, Masahiro Nomura +1

Optimization problems in real-world applications across the medical and engineering domains often involve potential risks when evaluating candidate solutions. Safe optimization aim…

cs.NE2025

CatCMA with Margin for Single- and Multi-Objective Mixed-Variable Black-Box Optimization

Ryoki Hamano, Masahiro Nomura, Shota Saito +2

This study focuses on mixed-variable black-box optimization (MV-BBO), addressing continuous, integer, and categorical variables. Many real-world MV-BBO problems involve dependencie…

cs.NE2025★ 1 cited

Warm Starting of CMA-ES for Contextual Optimization Problems

Yuta Sekino, Kento Uchida, Shinichi Shirakawa

Several practical applications of evolutionary computation possess objective functions that receive the design variables and externally given parameters. Such problems are termed c…

cs.NE2024

Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy for Low Effective Dimensionality

Kento Uchida, Teppei Yamaguchi, Shinichi Shirakawa

Despite the state-of-the-art performance of the covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES), high-dimensional black-box optimization problems are challenging tasks. Su…

cs.NE2024

Tail Bounds on the Runtime of Categorical Compact Genetic Algorithm

Ryoki Hamano, Kento Uchida, Shinichi Shirakawa +2

The majority of theoretical analyses of evolutionary algorithms in the discrete domain focus on binary optimization algorithms, even though black-box optimization on the categorica…

cs.NE2024★ 1 cited

CMA-ES with Adaptive Reevaluation for Multiplicative Noise

Kento Uchida, Kenta Nishihara, Shinichi Shirakawa

The covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES) is a powerful optimization method for continuous black-box optimization problems. Several noise-handling methods have b…

cs.NE2024

CMA-ES for Safe Optimization

Kento Uchida, Ryoki Hamano, Masahiro Nomura +2

In several real-world applications in medical and control engineering, there are unsafe solutions whose evaluations involve inherent risk. This optimization setting is known as saf…

cs.NE2024★ 8 cited

CatCMA : Stochastic Optimization for Mixed-Category Problems

Ryoki Hamano, Shota Saito, Masahiro Nomura +2

Black-box optimization problems often require simultaneously optimizing different types of variables, such as continuous, integer, and categorical variables. Unlike integer variabl…

cs.NE2023

(1+1)-CMA-ES with Margin for Discrete and Mixed-Integer Problems

Yohei Watanabe, Kento Uchida, Ryoki Hamano +3

The covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES) is an efficient continuous black-box optimization method. The CMA-ES possesses many attractive features, including inva…