[HTML][HTML] Two decades of blackbox optimization applications

S Alarie, C Audet, AE Gheribi, M Kokkolaras… - EURO Journal on …, 2021 - Elsevier
This article reviews blackbox optimization applications of direct search optimization methods
over the past twenty years. Emphasis is placed on the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (Mads) …

[图书][B] Introduction: tools and challenges in derivative-free and blackbox optimization

C Audet, W Hare, C Audet, W Hare - 2017 - Springer
In this introductory chapter, we present a high-level description of optimization, blackbox
optimization, and derivative-free optimization. We introduce some basic optimization …

[图书][B] Riemannian optimization and its applications

H Sato - 2021 - Springer
Mathematical optimization is an important branch of applied mathematics. Different classes
of optimization problems are categorized based on their problem structures. While there are …

A collection of nonsmooth Riemannian optimization problems

PA Absil, S Hosseini - Nonsmooth optimization and its applications, 2019 - Springer
Nonsmooth Riemannian optimization is still a scarcely explored subfield of optimization
theory that concerns the general problem of minimizing (or maximizing) over a domain …

Robust optimization of noisy blackbox problems using the mesh adaptive direct search algorithm

C Audet, A Ihaddadene, S Le Digabel, C Tribes - Optimization Letters, 2018 - Springer
Blackbox optimization problems are often contaminated with numerical noise, and direct
search methods such as the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm may get stuck …

Riemannian Smoothing Gradient Type Algorithms for Nonsmooth Optimization Problem on Compact Riemannian Submanifold Embedded in Euclidean Space

Z Peng, W Wu, J Hu, K Deng - Applied Mathematics & Optimization, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we introduce the notion of generalized ϵ-stationarity for a class of nonconvex
and nonsmooth composite minimization problems on compact Riemannian submanifold …

[PDF][PDF] Riemannian smoothing gradient type algorithms for nonsmooth optimization problem on manifolds

Z Peng, WH Wu, J Hu, KK Deng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.03526, 2022 - researchgate.net
In this paper, we introduce the notion of generalized ǫ-stationarity for a class of nonconvex
and nonsmooth composite minimization problems on Riemannian manifolds embedding in …

Linear equalities in blackbox optimization

C Audet, S Le Digabel, M Peyrega - Computational Optimization and …, 2015 - Springer
The mesh adaptive direct search (Mads) algorithm is designed for blackbox optimization
problems subject to general inequality constraints. Currently, Mads does not support …

Local difference ternary sequences descriptor based on unsupervised min redundancy mutual information feature selection

G Tao, Z Liu, J Cao, S Liang - Multidimensional Systems and Signal …, 2020 - Springer
Texture feature description research have received significant attention in recent years. It is
widely known that the local texture feature descriptor can achieve good performance under …

Range-based ICA using a nonsmooth quasi-Newton optimizer for electroencephalographic source localization in focal epilepsy

SE Selvan, ST George, R Balakrishnan - Neural computation, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
Independent component analysis (ICA) aims at separating a multivariate signal into
independent nongaussian signals by optimizing a contrast function with no knowledge on …