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most citedMetaBox: A Benchmark Platform for Meta-Black-Box Optimization with Reinforcement Learning

5 citations · 11 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cs.RO2026

Learning to Optimize UAV Path Planning for Data Sensing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Sijie Ma, Zeyuan Ma, Weijia Cao +4

UAVs have emerged as highly flexible platforms for data sensing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Path planning for UAVs in such tasks plays a key role to assure remote sensing e…

cs.CV2026

From Semantic Grounding to Decision Optimization: A Unified Framework for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation

Zeyuan Ma, Jiaxin Chen, Di Huang

UAV vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) focuses on enabling an aerial agent to follow natural-language instructions in open 3D environments from egocentric visual observations. Cu…

cs.NE2026

GeM-EA: A Generative and Meta-learning Enhanced Evolutionary Algorithm for Streaming Data-Driven Optimization

Yue Wu, Yuan-Ting Zhong, Ze-Yuan Ma +1

Streaming Data-Driven Optimization (SDDO) problems arise in many applications where data arrive continuously and the optimization environment evolves over time. Concept drift produ…

cs.AI2026

TRU: Targeted Reverse Update for Efficient Multimodal Recommendation Unlearning

Zhanting Zhou, KaHou Tam, Zeyu Ma +2

Multimodal recommendation systems (MRS) jointly model user-item interaction graphs and rich item content, but this tight coupling makes user data difficult to remove once learned.…

cs.NE2026

A Learning-Based Cooperative Coevolution Framework for Heterogeneous Large-Scale Global Optimization

Wenjie Qiu, Zixin Wang, Hongyu Fang +2

Cooperative Coevolution (CC) effectively addresses Large-Scale Global Optimization (LSGO) via decomposition but struggles with the emerging class of Heterogeneous LSGO (H-LSGO) pro…

cs.NE2026

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.…

cs.LG2026

Rethinking Efficiency in Neural Combinatorial Optimization: Batched Preference Optimization with Mamba

Zhenxing Xu, Zeyuan Ma, Weidong Bao +4

We study efficiency as a first-class objective in Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) and present ECO, an efficient learning framework that combines batched preference optimiza…

cs.NE2026

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…

cs.NE2026

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…

cs.NE2026

Evolution of Benchmark: Black-Box Optimization Benchmark Design through Large Language Model

Chen Wang, Sijie Ma, Zeyuan Ma +1

Benchmark Design in Black-Box Optimization (BBO) is a fundamental yet open-ended topic. Early BBO benchmarks are predominantly human-crafted, introducing expert bias and constraini…

cs.NE2026

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…

cs.LG2026

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…

cs.NE2025

Offline Multi-Task Multi-Objective Data-Driven Evolutionary Algorithm with Language Surrogate Model and Implicit Q-Learning

Xian-Rong Zhang, Yue-Jiao Gong, Zeyuan Ma +1

Data-driven evolutionary algorithms has shown surprising results in addressing expensive optimization problems through robust surrogate modeling. Though promising, existing surroga…

cs.AI2025

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…

cs.NE2025

Learning Where, What and How to Transfer: A Multi-Role Reinforcement Learning Approach for Evolutionary Multitasking

Jiajun Zhan, Zeyuan Ma, Yue-Jiao Gong +1

Evolutionary multitasking (EMT) algorithms typically require tailored designs for knowledge transfer, in order to assure convergence and optimality in multitask optimization. In th…

cs.LG2025

Instance Generation for Meta-Black-Box Optimization through Latent Space Reverse Engineering

Chen Wang, Yue-Jiao Gong, Zhiguang Cao +1

To relieve intensive human-expertise required to design optimization algorithms, recent Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) researches leverage generalization strength of meta-le…

cs.NE2025

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…

cs.LG2025

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 \…

cs.LG2025

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…

cs.LG2025

Advancing CMA-ES with Learning-Based Cooperative Coevolution for Scalable Optimization

Hongshu Guo, Wenjie Qiu, Zeyuan Ma +3

Recent research in Cooperative Coevolution~(CC) have achieved promising progress in solving large-scale global optimization problems. However, existing CC paradigms have a primary…

cs.NE2025

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…

cs.NE2025

Accurate Peak Detection in Multimodal Optimization via Approximated Landscape Learning

Zeyuan Ma, Hongqiao Lian, Wenjie Qiu +1

Detecting potential optimal peak areas and locating the accurate peaks in these areas are two major challenges in Multimodal Optimization problems (MMOPs). To address them, much ef…

cs.NE2025

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…

cs.LG2025

Surrogate Learning in Meta-Black-Box Optimization: A Preliminary Study

Zeyuan Ma, Zhiyang Huang, Jiacheng Chen +2

Recent Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) approaches have shown possibility of enhancing the optimization performance through learning meta-level policies to dynamically configu…