6 papers
Benchmarking that Matters: Rethinking Benchmarking for Practical Impact
Anna V. Kononova, Niki van Stein, Olaf Mersmann +14
Benchmarking has driven scientific progress in Evolutionary Computation, yet current practices fall short of real-world needs. Widely used synthetic suites such as BBOB and CEC iso…
Distributed Resource Selection for Self-Organising Cloud-Edge Systems
Quentin Renau, Amjad Ullah, Emma Hart
This paper presents a distributed resource selection mechanism for diverse cloud-edge environments, enabling dynamic and context-aware allocation of resources to meet the demands o…
Class Incremental Learning for Algorithm Selection
Mate Botond Nemeth, Emma Hart, Kevin Sim +1
Algorithm selection is commonly used to predict the best solver from a portfolio per per-instance. In many real scenarios, instances arrive in a stream: new instances become availa…
Algorithm Selection with Probing Trajectories: Benchmarking the Choice of Classifier Model
Quentin Renau, Emma Hart
Recent approaches to training algorithm selectors in the black-box optimisation domain have advocated for the use of training data that is algorithm-centric in order to encapsulate…
Beyond the Hype: Benchmarking LLM-Evolved Heuristics for Bin Packing
Kevin Sim, Quentin Renau, Emma Hart
Coupling Large Language Models (LLMs) with Evolutionary Algorithms has recently shown significant promise as a technique to design new heuristics that outperform existing methods,…
Stalling in Space: Attractor Analysis for any Algorithm
Sarah L. Thomson, Quentin Renau, Diederick Vermetten +3
Network-based representations of fitness landscapes have grown in popularity in the past decade; this is probably because of growing interest in explainability for optimisation alg…