most citedDoes Dimensionality Reduction via Random Projections Preserve Landscape Features?

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cs.NE2026

Sampling on Random Subspaces under Limited Data in the Context of Exploratory Landscape Analysis

Iván Olarte Rodríguez, Anja Jankovic, Thomas Bäck +1

Classical space-filling designs often fail to provide reliable statistical results for Exploratory Landscape Analysis (ELA) when only limited evaluation budgets are available, as c…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Does Dimensionality Reduction via Random Projections Preserve Landscape Features?

Iván Olarte Rodríguez, Anja Jankovic, Thomas Bäck +1

Exploratory Landscape Analysis (ELA) provides numerical features for characterizing black-box optimization problems. In high-dimensional settings, however, ELA suffers from sparsit…

cs.NE2026

Optimization is Not Enough: Why Problem Formulation Deserves Equal Attention

Iván Olarte Rodríguez, Gokhan Serhat, Mariusz Bujny +3

Black-box optimization is increasingly used in engineering design problems where simulation-based evaluations are costly and gradients are unavailable. In this context, the optimiz…

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

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…