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cs.LG2025

Mechanistic Interpretability for Transformer-based Time Series Classification

Matīss Kalnāre, Sofoklis Kitharidis, Thomas Bäck +1

Transformer-based models have become state-of-the-art tools in various machine learning tasks, including time series classification, yet their complexity makes understanding their…

cs.NE2025

MECHBench: A Set of Black-Box Optimization Benchmarks originated from Structural Mechanics

Iván Olarte Rodríguez, Maria Laura Santoni, Fabian Duddeck +3

Benchmarking is essential for developing and evaluating black-box optimization algorithms, providing a structured means to analyze their search behavior. Its effectiveness relies o…

cs.LG2025

Visual Model Selection using Feature Importance Clusters in Fairness-Performance Similarity Optimized Space

Sofoklis Kitharidis, Cor J. Veenman, Thomas Bäck +1

In the context of algorithmic decision-making, fair machine learning methods often yield multiple models that balance predictive fairness and performance in varying degrees. This d…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

EvoCAD: Evolutionary CAD Code Generation with Vision Language Models

Tobias Preintner, Weixuan Yuan, Adrian König +3

Combining large language models with evolutionary computation algorithms represents a promising research direction leveraging the remarkable generative and in-context learning capa…

cs.LG2025

Leveraging Lightweight Generators for Memory Efficient Continual Learning

Christiaan Lamers, Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, Thomas Bäck +1

Catastrophic forgetting can be trivially alleviated by keeping all data from previous tasks in memory. Therefore, minimizing the memory footprint while maximizing the amount of rel…

cs.LG2025

Feasibility-Driven Trust Region Bayesian Optimization

Paolo Ascia, Elena Raponi, Thomas Bäck +1

Bayesian optimization is a powerful tool for solving real-world optimization tasks under tight evaluation budgets, making it well-suited for applications involving costly simulatio…

cs.LG2025

LLaMEA-BO: A Large Language Model Evolutionary Algorithm for Automatically Generating Bayesian Optimization Algorithms

Wenhu Li, Niki van Stein, Thomas Bäck +1

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful class of algorithms for optimizing expensive black-box functions, but designing effective BO algorithms remains a manual, expertise-driven…

cs.AI2025

Why Are You Wrong? Counterfactual Explanations for Language Grounding with 3D Objects

Tobias Preintner, Weixuan Yuan, Qi Huang +4

Combining natural language and geometric shapes is an emerging research area with multiple applications in robotics and language-assisted design. A crucial task in this domain is o…

cs.NE2025

Large Language Models and Evolutionary Computation: A Critical Review of Bidirectional Interaction, Automated Algorithm Design, and Co-Adaptive Systems

Dikshit Chauhan, Bapi Dutta, Indu Bala +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Evolutionary Computation (EC) are increasingly being combined to support automated optimization, algorithm design, and adaptive decision-making. Th…

cs.LG2025

Diffusion and Flow Matching Models for Tabular Data: A Survey

Zhong Li, Qi Huang, Lincen Yang +5

Deep generative models have made rapid progress in image, text, audio, and video generation, and are increasingly being applied to structured records. For tabular data, however, ge…