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COBRA++: Enhanced COBRA Optimizer with Augmented Surrogate Pool and Reinforced Surrogate Selection
Zipei Yu, Zhiyang Huang, Hongshu Guo +2
The optimization problems in realistic world present significant challenges onto optimization algorithms, such as the expensive evaluation issue and complex constraint conditions.…
Surrogate Ensemble in Expensive Multi-Objective Optimization via Deep Q-Learning
Yuxin Wu, Hongshu Guo, Ting Huang +2
Surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Algorithms~(SAEAs) have shown promising robustness in solving expensive optimization problems. A key aspect that impacts SAEAs' effectiveness is sur…
Meta-Learning-Assisted Constraint Relaxation for Constrained Black-Box Optimization
Qianhao Zhu, Sijie Ma, Zeyuan Ma +3
Constraint handling is central to constrained black-box optimization (BBO), where objective improvement and feasibility restoration often provide conflicting search signals. Existi…
Detect and Act: Automated Dynamic Optimizer through Meta-Black-Box Optimization
Zijian Gao, Yuanting Zhong, Zeyuan Ma +2
Dynamic Optimization Problems (DOPs) are challenging to address due to their complex nature, i.e., dynamic environment variation. Evolutionary Computation methods are generally adv…
READY: Reward Discovery for Meta-Black-Box Optimization
Zechuan Huang, Zhiguang Cao, Hongshu Guo +2
Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) is an emerging avenue within Optimization community, where algorithm design policy could be meta-learned by reinforcement learning to enhance…
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…
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…
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 \…
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…
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…
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…
ConfigX: Modular Configuration for Evolutionary Algorithms via Multitask Reinforcement Learning
Hongshu Guo, Zeyuan Ma, Jiacheng Chen +4
Recent advances in Meta-learning for Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) have shown the potential of using neural networks to dynamically configure evolutionary algorithms (EAs), enha…
Toward Automated Algorithm Design: A Survey and Practical Guide to Meta-Black-Box-Optimization
Zeyuan Ma, Hongshu Guo, Yue-Jiao Gong +2
In this survey, we introduce Meta-Black-Box-Optimization~(MetaBBO) as an emerging avenue within the Evolutionary Computation~(EC) community, which incorporates Meta-learning approa…
Architectural Scaling Surpass Basis Complexity? Efficient KANs with Single-Parameter Design
Zhijie Chen, Xinglin Zhang, Hongshu Guo +1
The landscape of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) is rapidly expanding, yet lacks a unified theoretical framework and a clear principle for efficient architecture design. This pap…
Neural Exploratory Landscape Analysis for Meta-Black-Box-Optimization
Zeyuan Ma, Jiacheng Chen, Hongshu Guo +1
Recent research in Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) have shown that meta-trained neural networks can effectively guide the design of black-box optimizers, significantly reduci…
RLEMMO: Evolutionary Multimodal Optimization Assisted By Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hongqiao Lian, Zeyuan Ma, Hongshu Guo +2
Solving multimodal optimization problems (MMOP) requires finding all optimal solutions, which is challenging in limited function evaluations. Although existing works strike the bal…
Auto-configuring Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff in Evolutionary Computation via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Zeyuan Ma, Jiacheng Chen, Hongshu Guo +2
Evolutionary computation (EC) algorithms, renowned as powerful black-box optimizers, leverage a group of individuals to cooperatively search for the optimum. The exploration-exploi…
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Algorithm Selection: A Proof-of-Principle Study on Differential Evolution
Hongshu Guo, Yining Ma, Zeyuan Ma +5
Evolutionary algorithms, such as Differential Evolution, excel in solving real-parameter optimization challenges. However, the effectiveness of a single algorithm varies across dif…
LLaMoCo: Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models for Optimization Code Generation
Zeyuan Ma, Hongshu Guo, Jiacheng Chen +4
Recent research explores optimization using large language models (LLMs) by either iteratively seeking next-step solutions from LLMs or directly prompting LLMs for an optimizer. Ho…
Symbol: Generating Flexible Black-Box Optimizers through Symbolic Equation Learning
Jiacheng Chen, Zeyuan Ma, Hongshu Guo +3
Recent Meta-learning for Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) methods harness neural networks to meta-learn configurations of traditional black-box optimizers. Despite their success, t…
MetaBox: A Benchmark Platform for Meta-Black-Box Optimization with Reinforcement Learning
Zeyuan Ma, Hongshu Guo, Jiacheng Chen +5
Recently, Meta-Black-Box Optimization with Reinforcement Learning (MetaBBO-RL) has showcased the power of leveraging RL at the meta-level to mitigate manual fine-tuning of low-leve…