Toward Automated Algorithm Design: A Survey and Practical Guide to Meta-Black-Box-Optimization

Z Ma, H Guo, YJ Gong, J Zhang, KC Tan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.00625, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this survey, we introduce Meta-Black-Box-Optimization (MetaBBO) as an emerging
avenue within the Evolutionary Computation (EC) community, which incorporates Meta …

Synergies of deep and classical exploratory landscape features for automated algorithm selection

M Seiler, U Škvorc, C Doerr, H Trautmann - International Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Per-instance automated algorithm selection (AAS) aims at leveraging the complementarity of
optimization algorithms with respect to different problem types. State-of-the-art AAS methods …

Impact of Training Instance Selection on Automated Algorithm Selection Models for Numerical Black-box Optimization

K Dietrich, D Vermetten, C Doerr… - Proceedings of the Genetic …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The recently proposed MA-BBOB function generator provides a way to create numerical
black-box benchmark problems based on the well-established BBOB suite. Initial studies on …

A Survey of Meta-features Used for Automated Selection of Algorithms for Black-box Single-objective Continuous Optimization

G Cenikj, A Nikolikj, G Petelin, N van Stein… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The selection of the most appropriate algorithm to solve a given problem instance, known as
algorithm selection, is driven by the potential to capitalize on the complementary …

Learned Features vs. Classical ELA on Affine BBOB Functions

M Seiler, U Škvorc, G Cenikj, C Doerr… - … Conference on Parallel …, 2024 - Springer
Automated algorithm selection has proven to be effective to improve optimization
performance by using machine learning to select the best-performing algorithm for the …

Impact of spatial transformations on landscape features of CEC2022 basic benchmark problems

H Yin, D Vermetten, F Ye, THW Bäck… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
When benchmarking optimization heuristics, we need to take care to avoid an algorithm
exploiting biases in the construction of the used problems. One way in which this might be …

A Deep Dive Into Effects of Structural Bias on CMA-ES Performance Along Affine Trajectories

N van Stein, SL Thomson, AV Kononova - International Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
To guide the design of better iterative optimisation heuristics, it is imperative to understand
how inherent structural biases within algorithm components affect the performance on a …