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7 papers

cs.LG2025

Algorithm Selection with Probing Trajectories: Benchmarking the Choice of Classifier Model

Quentin Renau, Emma Hart

Recent approaches to training algorithm selectors in the black-box optimisation domain have advocated for the use of training data that is algorithm-centric in order to encapsulate…

cs.NE2025

Beyond the Hype: Benchmarking LLM-Evolved Heuristics for Bin Packing

Kevin Sim, Quentin Renau, Emma Hart

Coupling Large Language Models (LLMs) with Evolutionary Algorithms has recently shown significant promise as a technique to design new heuristics that outperform existing methods,…

cs.NE2024

Stalling in Space: Attractor Analysis for any Algorithm

Sarah L. Thomson, Quentin Renau, Diederick Vermetten +3

Network-based representations of fitness landscapes have grown in popularity in the past decade; this is probably because of growing interest in explainability for optimisation alg…

cs.LG2024

Identifying Easy Instances to Improve Efficiency of ML Pipelines for Algorithm-Selection

Quentin Renau, Emma Hart

Algorithm-selection (AS) methods are essential in order to obtain the best performance from a portfolio of solvers over large sets of instances. However, many AS methods rely on an…

cs.NE2024

Evaluating the Robustness of Deep-Learning Algorithm-Selection Models by Evolving Adversarial Instances

Emma Hart, Quentin Renau, Kevin Sim +1

Deep neural networks (DNN) are increasingly being used to perform algorithm-selection in combinatorial optimisation domains, particularly as they accommodate input representations…

cs.NE2024

Improving Algorithm-Selection and Performance-Prediction via Learning Discriminating Training Samples

Quentin Renau, Emma Hart

The choice of input-data used to train algorithm-selection models is recognised as being a critical part of the model success. Recently, feature-free methods for algorithm-selectio…