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An important Bottleneck in LLM Optimizers: Principle-Level Local Optima
Nian Ran, Tianhe Jia, Zhengyang Mu +6
Feedback-driven LLM optimizers are increasingly used for evolutionary search, Bayesian optimization, heuristic design, and scientific discovery. Yet rapid initial gains often give…
Flow Matching for Tabular Data Synthesis
Bahrul Ilmi Nasution, Floor Eijkelboom, Mark Elliot +2
Synthetic data generation is an important tool for privacy-preserving data sharing. Although diffusion models have set recent benchmarks, flow matching (FM) offers a promising alte…
MCCE: A Framework for Multi-LLM Collaborative Search in Discrete Spaces with Similarity-Filtered Preference Learning
Nian Ran, Zhongzheng Li, Yue Wang +5
Multi-objective discrete optimization problems, such as molecular design, pose significant challenges due to their vast and unstructured combinatorial spaces. Traditional evolution…
Automated Flow Pattern Classification in Multi-phase Systems Using AI and Capacitance Sensing Techniques
Nian Ran, Fayez M. Al-Alweet, Richard Allmendinger +1
In multiphase flow systems, classifying flow patterns is crucial to optimize fluid dynamics and enhance system efficiency. Current industrial methods and scientific laboratories ma…
ExLLM: Experience-Enhanced LLM Optimization for Molecular Design and Beyond
Nian Ran, Yue Wang, Xiaoyuan Zhang +4
Molecular design involves an enormous and irregular search space, where traditional optimizers such as Bayesian optimization, genetic algorithms, and generative models struggle to…
HR-Extreme: A High-Resolution Dataset for Extreme Weather Forecasting
Nian Ran, Peng Xiao, Yue Wang +4
The application of large deep learning models in weather forecasting has led to significant advancements in the field, including higher-resolution forecasting and extended predicti…
Multi-objective evolutionary GAN for tabular data synthesis
Nian Ran, Bahrul Ilmi Nasution, Claire Little +2
Synthetic data has a key role to play in data sharing by statistical agencies and other generators of statistical data products. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), typically a…