Combinatorial optimization problems are often encountered in real-world applications, including logistics, scheduling and ...

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Arbor separates strategy from execution using isolated git worktrees, so engineering teams can finally trace which optimization actually moved the needle.

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Key Laboratory of Optimization Theory and Applications, School of Mathematical Sciences, China West Normal University, Nanchong, China. Overall, existing literature mainly focuses on smooth ...

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Abstract: Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a widely used method for optimizing expensive black-box functions, but scaling it to high-dimensional optimization is a challenging task. As the problem scales ...

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Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel exact/successive line search method for stepsize calculation in iterative algorithms for nonsmooth optimization problems. The proposed approach is to ...