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Investigating the Interplay of Parameterization and Optimizer in Gradient-Free Topology Optimization: A Cantilever Beam Case Study
Jelle Westra, Iván Olarte Rodríguez, Niki van Stein +2
Gradient-free black-box optimization (BBO) is widely used in engineering design and provides a flexible framework for topology optimization (TO), enabling the discovery of high-per…
Benchmarking that Matters: Rethinking Benchmarking for Practical Impact
Anna V. Kononova, Niki van Stein, Olaf Mersmann +14
Benchmarking has driven scientific progress in Evolutionary Computation, yet current practices fall short of real-world needs. Widely used synthetic suites such as BBOB and CEC iso…
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…
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…
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…