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20202026
most citedOpenBox: A Generalized Black-box Optimization Service

56 citations · 312 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.AI2026

PANDO: Efficient Multimodal AI Agents via Online Skill Distillation

Yubo Li, Yidi Miao, Yuntian Shen +1

Recent advances in multimodal web agents often rely on increased inference-time computation, including rollout search, verifier passes, offline skill discovery, and specialist mode…

cs.DB2026

SiriusHelper: An LLM Agent-Based Operations Assistant for Big Data Platforms

Yu Shen, Shiyang Liu, Qihang He +14

Big data platforms are widely used in modern enterprises, and an in-production intelligent assistant is increasingly important to help users quickly find actionable guidance and re…

cs.DB2025

SQLGovernor: An LLM-powered SQL Toolkit for Real World Application

Jie Jiang, Siqi Shen, Haining Xie +8

SQL queries in real world analytical environments, whether written by humans or generated automatically often suffer from syntax errors, inefficiency, or semantic misalignment, esp…

cs.DB2024

SiriusBI: A Comprehensive LLM-Powered Solution for Data Analytics in Business Intelligence

Jie Jiang, Haining Xie, Siqi Shen +12

With the proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Business Intelligence (BI), existing solutions face critical challenges in industrial deployments: functionality deficienc…

cs.DC2023★ 24 cited

Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark

Yang Li, Huaijun Jiang, Yu Shen +8

The distributed data analytic system -- Spark is a common choice for processing massive volumes of heterogeneous data, while it is challenging to tune its parameters to achieve hig…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

OpenBox: A Python Toolkit for Generalized Black-box Optimization

Huaijun Jiang, Yu Shen, Yang Li +5

Black-box optimization (BBO) has a broad range of applications, including automatic machine learning, experimental design, and database knob tuning. However, users still face chall…

cs.LG2023★ 19 cited

Transfer Learning for Bayesian Optimization: A Survey

Tianyi Bai, Yang Li, Yu Shen +3

A wide spectrum of design and decision problems, including parameter tuning, A/B testing and drug design, intrinsically are instances of black-box optimization. Bayesian optimizati…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

DivBO: Diversity-aware CASH for Ensemble Learning

Yu Shen, Yupeng Lu, Yang Li +3

The Combined Algorithm Selection and Hyperparameters optimization (CASH) problem is one of the fundamental problems in Automated Machine Learning (AutoML). Motivated by the success…

cs.LG2023

Rover: An online Spark SQL tuning service via generalized transfer learning

Yu Shen, Xinyuyang Ren, Yupeng Lu +6

Distributed data analytic engines like Spark are common choices to process massive data in industry. However, the performance of Spark SQL highly depends on the choice of configura…

cs.LG2022★ 27 cited

Efficient End-to-End AutoML via Scalable Search Space Decomposition

Yang Li, Yu Shen, Wentao Zhang +2

End-to-end AutoML has attracted intensive interests from both academia and industry which automatically searches for ML pipelines in a space induced by feature engineering, algorit…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

NAFS: A Simple yet Tough-to-beat Baseline for Graph Representation Learning

Wentao Zhang, Zeang Sheng, Mingyu Yang +4

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown prominent performance in graph representation learning by leveraging knowledge from both graph structure and node features. Howeve…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

DFG-NAS: Deep and Flexible Graph Neural Architecture Search

Wentao Zhang, Zheyu Lin, Yu Shen +3

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been intensively applied to various graph-based applications. Despite their success, manually designing the well-behaved GNNs requires immense hum…

cs.LG2022★ 13 cited

TransBO: Hyperparameter Optimization via Two-Phase Transfer Learning

Yang Li, Yu Shen, Huaijun Jiang +4

With the extensive applications of machine learning models, automatic hyperparameter optimization (HPO) has become increasingly important. Motivated by the tuning behaviors of huma…

cs.LG2022★ 9 cited

Transfer Learning based Search Space Design for Hyperparameter Tuning

Yang Li, Yu Shen, Huaijun Jiang +4

The tuning of hyperparameters becomes increasingly important as machine learning (ML) models have been extensively applied in data mining applications. Among various approaches, Ba…

cs.LG2022★ 45 cited

PaSca: a Graph Neural Architecture Search System under the Scalable Paradigm

Wentao Zhang, Yu Shen, Zheyu Lin +6

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various graph-based tasks. However, as mainstream GNNs are designed based on the neural message passing m…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

Hyper-Tune: Towards Efficient Hyper-parameter Tuning at Scale

Yang Li, Yu Shen, Huaijun Jiang +5

The ever-growing demand and complexity of machine learning are putting pressure on hyper-parameter tuning systems: while the evaluation cost of models continues to increase, the sc…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Automated Hyperparameter Optimization Challenge at CIKM 2021 AnalyticCup

Huaijun Jiang, Yu Shen, Yang Li

In this paper, we describe our method for tackling the automated hyperparameter optimization challenge in QQ Browser 2021 AI Algorithm Competiton (ACM CIKM 2021 AnalyticCup Track 2…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

ProxyBO: Accelerating Neural Architecture Search via Bayesian Optimization with Zero-cost Proxies

Yu Shen, Yang Li, Jian Zheng +6

Designing neural architectures requires immense manual efforts. This has promoted the development of neural architecture search (NAS) to automate the design. While previous NAS met…

cs.LG2021★ 39 cited

Grain: Improving Data Efficiency of Graph Neural Networks via Diversified Influence Maximization

Wentao Zhang, Zhi Yang, Yexin Wang +4

Data selection methods, such as active learning and core-set selection, are useful tools for improving the data efficiency of deep learning models on large-scale datasets. However,…

cs.LG2021★ 23 cited

ROD: Reception-aware Online Distillation for Sparse Graphs

Wentao Zhang, Yuezihan Jiang, Yang Li +6

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in many graph-based tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and node clustering. However, GNNs gain their performance…

cs.LG2021★ 20 cited

VolcanoML: Speeding up End-to-End AutoML via Scalable Search Space Decomposition

Yang Li, Yu Shen, Wentao Zhang +8

End-to-end AutoML has attracted intensive interests from both academia and industry, which automatically searches for ML pipelines in a space induced by feature engineering, algori…

cs.LG2021★ 56 cited

OpenBox: A Generalized Black-box Optimization Service

Yang Li, Yu Shen, Wentao Zhang +9

Black-box optimization (BBO) has a broad range of applications, including automatic machine learning, engineering, physics, and experimental design. However, it remains a challenge…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

GMLP: Building Scalable and Flexible Graph Neural Networks with Feature-Message Passing

Wentao Zhang, Yu Shen, Zheyu Lin +6

In recent studies, neural message passing has proved to be an effective way to design graph neural networks (GNNs), which have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many graph-b…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

MFES-HB: Efficient Hyperband with Multi-Fidelity Quality Measurements

Yang Li, Yu Shen, Jiawei Jiang +3

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a fundamental problem in automatic machine learning (AutoML). However, due to the expensive evaluation cost of models (e.g., training deep lear…