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cs.CV20231 cited

On the Noise Scheduling for Generating Plausible Designs with Diffusion Models

Jiajie Fan, Laure Vuaille, Thomas Bäck +1

Deep Generative Models (DGMs) are widely used to create innovative designs across multiple industries, ranging from fashion to the automotive sector. In addition to generating imag…

cs.NE2023

Representation-agnostic distance-driven perturbation for optimizing ill-conditioned problems

Kirill Antonov, Anna V. Kononova, Thomas Bäck +1

Locality is a crucial property for efficiently optimising black-box problems with randomized search heuristics. However, in practical applications, it is not likely to always find…

cs.NE2023

Challenges of ELA-guided Function Evolution using Genetic Programming

Fu Xing Long, Diederick Vermetten, Anna V. Kononova +4

Within the optimization community, the question of how to generate new optimization problems has been gaining traction in recent years. Within topics such as instance space analysi…

cs.NE2023

When to be Discrete: Analyzing Algorithm Performance on Discretized Continuous Problems

André Thomaser, Jacob de Nobel, Diederick Vermetten +3

The domain of an optimization problem is seen as one of its most important characteristics. In particular, the distinction between continuous and discrete optimization is rather im…

cs.NE20231 cited

Modular Differential Evolution

Diederick Vermetten, Fabio Caraffini, Anna V. Kononova +1

New contributions in the field of iterative optimisation heuristics are often made in an iterative manner. Novel algorithmic ideas are not proposed in isolation, but usually as an…

math.OC20233 cited

DoE2Vec: Deep-learning Based Features for Exploratory Landscape Analysis

Bas van Stein, Fu Xing Long, Moritz Frenzel +3

We propose DoE2Vec, a variational autoencoder (VAE)-based methodology to learn optimization landscape characteristics for downstream meta-learning tasks, e.g., automated selection…