Study proposes a hybrid method for medium-term load forecasting.
problem Accurate medium-term load forecasting for power system operation and planning.
method Support Vector Regression (SVR) combined with Symbiotic Organism Search Optimization (SOSO) for parameter optimization and feature selection.
result The proposed method outperformed previous methods in the EUNITE competition dataset.
Hybrid model predicts stock prices more accurately.
problem Efficient stock price prediction.
method Symbiotic organisms search algorithm trained feedforward neural networks.
result Outstanding predictive performance compared to other models.
Retro* uses neural networks to efficiently find high-quality synthetic routes in organic chemistry.
problem Finding efficient synthetic routes in organic chemistry is challenging due to the vast search space.
method Retro* is a neural-based A*-like algorithm that learns a neural search bias to guide efficient best-first search.
result Retro* outperforms existing methods in both success rate and solution quality while being more efficient.
Unified perspective unites Bayesian optimization and active learning for efficient goal-oriented optimization.
problem Efficiently optimize expensive engineering and scientific problems with limited data.
method Unified framework linking Bayesian infill criteria and active learning criteria.
result Unified approach formalizes Bayesian infill criteria and active learning criteria.
Hierarchical NMF organizes COVID-19 literature into a searchable tree.
problem Organizing and searching for relevant COVID-19 research.
method Hierarchical nonnegative matrix factorization.
result Identified 8 major and 52 subtopics related to COVID-19.
Self-ONNs adapt nodal operators during training for higher diversity and efficiency.
problem Limited network heterogeneity and high computational demand in ONNs.
method Self-organized ONNs with generative neurons that adapt nodal operators during training.
result Self-ONNs achieve utmost heterogeneity and computational efficiency.
This paper demonstrates the use of genetic algorithms for evolving: 1) a grandmaster-level evaluation function, and 2) a search mechanism for a chess program, the parameter values of which are initialized randomly. The evaluation function of the program is evolved by learning from databases of (human) grandmaster games…
A new scheme reduces global search cost by a square root factor.
problem Challenges in finding global minimum of cost functions.
method Gradient descent combined with a biased crossover of two good solutions.
result Quadratic speedup of global search efficiency.
Gryffin optimizes categorical variables in materials design, leveraging expert knowledge.
problem Optimizing categorical variables in complex design choices like molecule selection.
method Bayesian optimization with smooth approximations to categorical distributions, incorporating expert knowledge.
result Gryffin accelerates discovery of promising molecules and materials, highlighting relevant correlations.
Motivation: Cell-biological processes are regulated through a complex network of interactions between genes and their products. The processes, their activating conditions, and the associated transcriptional responses are often unknown. Organism-wide modeling of network activation can reveal unique and shared mechanisms…
This work recommends personalized search stories to users based on their interests.
problem Personalized search story recommendation within search engines.
method Deep reinforcement learning architecture trained by imitation learning and reinforcement learning.
result Empirically demonstrated effectiveness on real-world data sets.
Optimizes e-commerce traffic sales by incorporating hidden costs into auction mechanisms.
problem Hidden costs from unexpected advertising items in search results.
method Dynamic reserve price design with distributed solving algorithm.
result Ensures a balanced relationship between revenue and user experience.
This research enhances exploration in DDPG using latent trajectory optimization.
problem Limited exploration in DDPG with deterministic policies.
method Model-based trajectory optimization for exploration in DDPG, using a learned deep dynamics model.
result Improved performance in continuous control tasks, especially with sparse rewards and images.
This paper introduces a new system for discovering patterns in morphogenetic systems using modular architecture and unsupervised learning.
problem Discovering novel patterns in morphogenetic systems is challenging and often relies on manual tuning.
method Introduces a hierarchical, modular architecture for unsupervised learning of diverse representations combined with goal exploration algorithms.
result The new system efficiently adapts diversity search towards user preferences with minimal feedback.
Bayesian algorithm discovers synthetic routes from target molecules.
problem Identifying synthetic routes from desired products.
method Bayesian inference and combinatorial optimization.
result Algorithm rediscovered 80.3% and 50.0% of known synthetic routes.
Data science relies on pipelines that are organized in the form of interdependent computational steps. Each step consists of various candidate algorithms that maybe used for performing a particular function. Each algorithm consists of several hyperparameters. Algorithms and hyperparameters must be optimized as a whole …
Survey of 1000 NAS papers, automating neural architecture design.
problem Designing high-performing neural architectures for various tasks.
method Taxonomy of search spaces, algorithms, and speedup techniques.
result NAS has surpassed human-designed architectures on many tasks.
Browsing and finding relevant information for Bangladeshi laws is a challenge faced by all law students and researchers in Bangladesh, and by citizens who want to learn about any legal procedure. Some law archives in Bangladesh are digitized, but lack proper tools to organize the data meaningfully. We present a text vi…
DBS uses swarm intelligence to cluster data without needing a global objective function.
problem Clustering high-dimensional data with unknown natural clusters.
method Databionic swarm (DBS) system that self-organizes and adapts to data structures.
result DBS outperforms traditional clustering methods in scenarios with no prior knowledge.
Since time immemorial, people have been looking for ways to organize scientific knowledge into some systems to facilitate search and discovery of new ideas. The problem was partially solved in the pre-Internet era using library classifications, but nowadays it is nearly impossible to classify all scientific and popular…
Bayesian optimization improves classifier selection for acute infection and mortality.
problem Improving accuracy of acute infection and mortality prediction.
method Comparison of hyperparameter optimization methods (grid search, random sampling, Bayesian optimization).
result Bayesian optimization outperforms grid search or random sampling for in-hospital mortality classifiers.
Fragment-based autoencoder improves molecule screening with little data.
problem Limited experimental data for molecular optimization.
method Fragment-based graphical autoencoding to generate structural fingerprints.
result Fragment-based autoencoding reduces prediction error in small data.
Selecting an optimal set of icons is a crucial step in the pipeline of visual design to structure and navigate through content. However, designing the icons sets is usually a difficult task for which expert knowledge is required. In this work, to ease the process of icon set selection to the users, we propose a similar…
Large dataset of e-retailer images for improving visual search and product classification.
problem Improving the relevancy of visual search and product recommendation systems.
method Sharing a large dataset of 12M images from an online store classified into 5K categories.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of deep learning in image classification.
Proposes VILMAP for finding motifs and segmenting words in time series.
problem Finding motifs and segmenting words in time series data.
method Self-Organizing Maps with variable input length.
result VILMAP identifies motifs of varying lengths and avoids catastrophic forgetting.
Differential privacy enables organizations to collect accurate aggregates over sensitive data with strong, rigorous guarantees on individuals' privacy. Previous work has found that under differential privacy, computing multiple correlated aggregates as a batch, using an appropriate \emph{strategy}, may yield higher acc…
Introduces MFVDM for high-dimensional data analysis.
problem Non-linear dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional datasets.
method Combines multiple unitary irreducible representations for nonlinear embeddings.
result Achieves better nearest neighbor search and alignment estimation on noisy data.
Research predicts money market volume based on capital market and bank rates ratio.
problem Understanding the influence of capital market and bank rates on money market instruments.
method Correlation matrix and time series model to predict money market volume.
result Predictive model for money market instrument volume based on historical data.
ChemBO optimizes small organic molecules for synthesis and desired properties.
problem Designing and optimizing new organic molecules for specific properties.
method Bayesian optimization framework that considers synthesizability constraints.
result ChemBO generates synthesizable candidates efficiently and effectively.
This paper proposes an organized generalization of Newman and Girvan's modularity measure for graph clustering. Optimized via a deterministic annealing scheme, this measure produces topologically ordered graph clusterings that lead to faithful and readable graph representations based on clustering induced graphs. Topog…
Innovation is to organizations what evolution is to organisms: it is how organisations adapt to changes in the environment and improve. Governments, institutions and firms that innovate are more likely to prosper and stand the test of time; those that fail to do so fall behind their competitors and succumb to market an…
Automates optimizer design for diverse tasks efficiently.
problem Scalability, generability, and sample efficiency in optimizer search.
method Re-arranged optimizer space into a super-tree, applying tree traversal methods.
result Discover optimizers with only 128 evaluations, surpassing human-designed and prior methods.
LA-MCTS learns search space partition for black-box optimization using Monte Carlo Tree Search.
problem High-dimensional black-box optimization challenges.
method LA-MCTS recursively splits search space into regions with high/low function values, learns nonlinear partition and local models online.
result LA-MCTS achieves strong performance in black-box optimization and reinforcement learning benchmarks, especially for high-dimensional problems.
Adverts optimize organic traffic by strategically bidding in e-commerce feeds.
problem Maximizing organic traffic through strategic advertising in e-commerce feeds.
method Proposes a novel Leverage optimization problem and a Hybrid Training Leverage Bidding (HTLB) algorithm to optimize traffic.
result Demonstrates superior performance of the HTLB algorithm in optimizing organic traffic.
BLOB combines organic and bandit signals for better user interest estimation.
problem Combining organic and bandit signals for improved user interest estimation.
method Bayesian Latent Organic Bandit (BLOB) model using variational auto-encoders and local re-parametrization.
result BLOB outperforms organic and bandit-based methods in both organic and bandit-rich environments.
Reactmine infers chemical reactions from time series data, overcoming sparse model limitations.
problem Inferring chemical reaction networks from time series data, especially when initial conditions are not varied.
method Sequential reaction inference in a search tree, ranking and re-optimizing kinetics.
result Reactmine successfully infers preponderant regulations in real datasets, matching model-based analyses.
This paper compares Grid Search, Random Search, and Genetic Algorithm for NAS.
problem Hyperparameter optimization for neural architecture search.
method Comparison of Grid Search, Random Search, and Genetic Algorithm.
result Genetic Algorithm outperforms Grid Search and Random Search in terms of accuracy and execution time.
A heuristic method refines search space for Bayesian optimization with low budget.
problem Efficiently optimize objective function with limited evaluation budget.
method Divide search space into promising regions to refine Bayesian optimization.
result Bayesian optimization with proposed method outperforms standard Bayesian optimization.
Bayesian optimization with directionally constrained search improves efficiency within a budget.
problem Optimizing expensive functions with limited computational resources.
method Directionally constrained search to allocate model capability efficiently.
result Our approach outperforms in finding the optimum within a prescribed evaluation budget.
New method optimizes BO by learning search spaces from past evaluations.
problem Optimizing expensive black-box functions efficiently.
method Automatically designs BO search space from historical data.
result Significant boost in BO performance by reducing search space size.
We propose a long term portfolio management method which takes into account a liability. Our approach is based on the LQG (Linear, Quadratic cost, Gaussian) control problem framework and then the optimal portfolio strategy hedges the liability by directly tracking a benchmark process which represents the liability. Two…
Bayesian optimization improves multi-start global optimization.
problem Global optimization challenges in real-world applications.
method Bayesian optimization framework to determine local search starting points.
result Bayesian optimization enhances the efficiency of multi-start local searches.
A game theory study on optimal hiding and searching strategies in discrete locations.
problem Optimal hiding and searching strategies in a two-person zero-sum game between a hider and a searcher.
method Proved the existence of optimal strategies, developed an algorithm to compute them, and compared with a simple strategy.
result Optimal hiding strategy involves hiding in each location with nonzero probability, and optimal searching strategy can be constructed with up to n simple sequences.
Bayesian optimization for multi-objective and multi-point search.
problem Efficiently optimize unknown multi-objective functions with high evaluation costs.
method Proposes a Bayesian optimization algorithm that considers both multi-objective and multi-point search problems, using an acquisition function and an efficient gradient estimation method.
result Shows comparable or superior performance to heuristic methods via numerical experiments.
NAS helps find best neural network designs.
problem Designing optimal neural network architectures.
method Optimization algorithms and search spaces.
result Introduction to major advances in NAS for CNNs.
A new Randomized-Hyperopt method improves XGBoost hyperparameter tuning.
problem Improving the performance of XGBoost through hyperparameter optimization.
method Proposes Randomized-Hyperopt for XGBoost hyperparameter tuning.
result Randomized-Hyperopt outperforms other methods in terms of accuracy and execution time.
A new algorithm, Regular Tree Search, tackles non-convex simulation optimization problems.
problem Non-convex objective functions in simulation optimization.
method Integrates adaptive sampling with recursive partitioning of the search space.
result Proves global convergence and reliably identifies the global optimum.
New method reduces NAS search time and complexity.
problem High computational cost and complexity in NAS.
method Differentiable search space with annealing and pruning.
result Achieves 1.68% error on CIFAR-10 with 0.2 GPU days.