4 papers
ATLAS: Scaffold-Free Algorithm Synthesis by LLMs via Embedding-Guided Quality-Diversity Search
Danial Yazdani, Mohammad Nabi Omidvar, Yuan Sun +2
Most LLM-based automated algorithm design methods optimize a designated component within a human-specified scaffold, fixing overall organization and component interactions. We pres…
Towards Privacy-Preserving Federated Prompt Tuning under Data Heterogeneity: A Subspace-Decomposed Expert Approach
Yuhua Wang, Xiaodong Li, Yihao Guo +6
Federated prompt tuning (FPT) enables collaborative adaptation of vision--language models (VLMs) using lightweight prompts. Existing methods often address heterogeneity and privacy…
Taming Noise-Induced Prototype Degradation for Privacy-Preserving Personalized Federated Fine-Tuning
Yuhua Wang, Qinnan Zhang, Xiaodong Li +6
Prototype-based Personalized Federated Learning (ProtoPFL) enables efficient multi-domain adaptation by communicating compact class prototypes, but directly sharing them poses priv…
PORTAL: Controllable Landscape Generator for Continuous Optimization-Part I: Framework
Danial Yazdani, Mai Peng, Delaram Yazdani +6
Benchmarking is central to optimization research, yet existing test suites for continuous optimization remain limited: classical collections are fixed and rigid, while previous gen…