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Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search with Dual Contrastive Learning

Xian-Rong Zhang, Yue-Jiao Gong, Wei-Neng Chen +1

Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search (ENAS) has gained attention for automatically designing neural network architectures. Recent studies use a neural predictor to guide the pro…

cs.NE2025

Offline Multi-Task Multi-Objective Data-Driven Evolutionary Algorithm with Language Surrogate Model and Implicit Q-Learning

Xian-Rong Zhang, Yue-Jiao Gong, Zeyuan Ma +1

Data-driven evolutionary algorithms has shown surprising results in addressing expensive optimization problems through robust surrogate modeling. Though promising, existing surroga…

cs.AI2025

Evolutionary System 2 Reasoning: An Empirical Proof

Zeyuan Ma, Wenqi Huang, Guo-Huan Song +4

Machine intelligence marks the ultimate dream of making machines' intelligence comparable to human beings. While recent progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) show substantial sp…

cs.NE2025

Learning Where, What and How to Transfer: A Multi-Role Reinforcement Learning Approach for Evolutionary Multitasking

Jiajun Zhan, Zeyuan Ma, Yue-Jiao Gong +1

Evolutionary multitasking (EMT) algorithms typically require tailored designs for knowledge transfer, in order to assure convergence and optimality in multitask optimization. In th…

cs.LG2025

Instance Generation for Meta-Black-Box Optimization through Latent Space Reverse Engineering

Chen Wang, Yue-Jiao Gong, Zhiguang Cao +1

To relieve intensive human-expertise required to design optimization algorithms, recent Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) researches leverage generalization strength of meta-le…

cs.NE2025

Meta-Black-Box-Optimization through Offline Q-function Learning

Zeyuan Ma, Zhiguang Cao, Zhou Jiang +2

Recent progress in Meta-Black-Box-Optimization (MetaBBO) has demonstrated that using RL to learn a meta-level policy for dynamic algorithm configuration (DAC) over an optimization…

cs.LG2025

DesignX: Human-Competitive Algorithm Designer for Black-Box Optimization

Hongshu Guo, Zeyuan Ma, Yining Ma +3

Designing effective black-box optimizers is hampered by limited problem-specific knowledge and manual control that spans months for almost every detail. In this paper, we present \…

cs.LG2025

MetaBox-v2: A Unified Benchmark Platform for Meta-Black-Box Optimization

Zeyuan Ma, Yue-Jiao Gong, Hongshu Guo +11

Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) streamlines the automation of optimization algorithm design through meta-learning. It typically employs a bi-level structure: the meta-level p…

cs.LG2025

Advancing CMA-ES with Learning-Based Cooperative Coevolution for Scalable Optimization

Hongshu Guo, Wenjie Qiu, Zeyuan Ma +3

Recent research in Cooperative Coevolution~(CC) have achieved promising progress in solving large-scale global optimization problems. However, existing CC paradigms have a primary…

cs.NE2025

A Novel Two-Phase Cooperative Co-evolution Framework for Large-Scale Global Optimization with Complex Overlapping

Wenjie Qiu, Hongshu Guo, Zeyuan Ma +1

Cooperative Co-evolution, through the decomposition of the problem space, is a primary approach for solving large-scale global optimization problems. Typically, when the subspaces…

cs.NE2025

Accurate Peak Detection in Multimodal Optimization via Approximated Landscape Learning

Zeyuan Ma, Hongqiao Lian, Wenjie Qiu +1

Detecting potential optimal peak areas and locating the accurate peaks in these areas are two major challenges in Multimodal Optimization problems (MMOPs). To address them, much ef…

cs.NE2025

Reinforcement Learning-based Self-adaptive Differential Evolution through Automated Landscape Feature Learning

Hongshu Guo, Sijie Ma, Zechuan Huang +4

Recently, Meta-Black-Box-Optimization (MetaBBO) methods significantly enhance the performance of traditional black-box optimizers through meta-learning flexible and generalizable m…

cs.LG2025

Surrogate Learning in Meta-Black-Box Optimization: A Preliminary Study

Zeyuan Ma, Zhiyang Huang, Jiacheng Chen +2

Recent Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) approaches have shown possibility of enhancing the optimization performance through learning meta-level policies to dynamically configu…

cs.LG2025

Diversity Optimization for Travelling Salesman Problem via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Qi Li, Zhiguang Cao, Yining Ma +2

Existing neural methods for the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) mostly aim at finding a single optimal solution. To discover diverse yet high-quality solutions for Multi-Solution…