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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.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.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.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.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…

cs.LG2024

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…

cs.LG2024

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…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

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…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

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…