2 papers
cs.LG2026
SemanticOpt: Towards LLM-Based Semantic Black-Box Optimization
Jamison Meindl, Yunsheng Tian, Tony Cui +5
Optimizing an experimental system can be extremely challenging when each experiment is expensive, time-consuming, or difficult to perform. Existing optimizers for expensive black-b…
cs.LG2025
ZeroShotOpt: Towards Zero-Shot Pretrained Models for Efficient Black-Box Optimization
Jamison Meindl, Yunsheng Tian, Tony Cui +6
Global optimization of expensive, derivative-free black-box functions requires extreme sample efficiency. While Bayesian optimization (BO) is the current state-of-the-art, its perf…