2 papers
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.CL2026
BBOWP-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Black-Box Optimization Word Problems
Yutaro Yamada, Kei Hiroshima, Nozomu Yoshinari +2
Formulating an optimization problem strongly affects the quality of the final solution, yet good formulations usually require substantial expertise. Recent studies have therefore e…