A certified gradient-based method for contact-rich manipulation that quantifies smoothing-induced errors via set-valued discrepancies and incorporates them into analytical reachable sets for robust affine feedback policies.
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The CMA Evolution Strategy: A Tutorial
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This tutorial introduces the CMA Evolution Strategy (ES), where CMA stands for Covariance Matrix Adaptation. The CMA-ES is a stochastic, or randomized, method for real-parameter (continuous domain) optimization of non-linear, non-convex functions. We try to motivate and derive the algorithm from intuitive concepts and from requirements of non-linear, non-convex search in continuous domain.
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Promptbreeder evolves both task prompts and the mutation prompts that improve them using LLMs, outperforming Chain-of-Thought and Plan-and-Solve on arithmetic and commonsense reasoning benchmarks.
Latent Heuristic Search performs continuous optimization over learned embeddings of heuristics, using normalizing flows and LLM prompting to discover competitive solvers for TSP, CVRP, KSP, and OBP.
A Q/D-space framework supplies sufficient order conditions for explicit Runge-Kutta methods and supports a recursive construction of even-order methods with stage count (p²-2p+8)/4.
EVA-0 is a zeroth-order test-time adaptation method that uses scale-invariant loss, anchor-guided optimization, and symmetric two-sided perturbations to enable inference and adaptation in two forward passes, outperforming prior methods on ImageNet-C with ViT-Base.
EGGROLL applies low-rank evolution strategies to train leaky integrate-and-fire spiking neural networks, reaching 79.21% accuracy on N-MNIST with 2.23 times lower per-generation time than full-rank ES.
EvoPref applies NSGA-II evolutionary optimization with archive-based diversity to populations of LoRA adapters, yielding 18% higher preference coverage and 47% lower collapse than gradient descent baselines while matching alignment quality.
ENMP prunes negative LoRA modules via evolutionary search to boost merging performance to new state-of-the-art levels across language and vision tasks.
Proprioceptive distribution matching adapts simulators for legged robot policies by comparing observation and action distributions, reducing sim-to-real gaps with minimal real data and no external sensing.
A bootstrap strategy for non-unitary CFTs uses statistical stability of OPE data across cross-ratios to optimize spectra, reproducing A-series minimal models and yielding candidate solutions for c>1.
Introduces observation traveling salesman distance and observation entropy to quantify exploration in Bayesian optimization acquisition functions and links them to empirical performance.
CoRP consolidates reward-weighted perturbations into a single model via low-rank structure, improving base LLMs by 8.1 points on average while using one-tenth the budget of prior ensembles and one forward pass.
Deep bibliography expansion in literature search achieves high recall while human citations are found to have only 51% moderate relevance compared to 86-88% for AI methods.
ECo-MoE co-optimizes latent robot genotypes and a gated mixture of control experts to improve evolvability in robot body-controller co-design.
KSOS-BO improves acquisition function optimization in Bayesian optimization by casting it as a kernel sum of squares semidefinite program, outperforming Sobol, DE, and CMA-ES baselines on 10/15 benchmarks with 81% average regret reduction.
Recasts sampling-based nonconvex optimization as smoothed gradient descent to obtain non-asymptotic convergence guarantees and introduces the DIDA annealed algorithm that converges to the global optimum.
Deep Boltzmann Quantum States with natural-gradient optimization and annealing-like training match exact or best-known solutions for large infinite-range Ising spin glasses and solve job shop scheduling instances.
QD-LLM applies neuroevolution to prompt embeddings within a quality-diversity framework, producing 46% higher coverage and 41% higher QD-score than QDAIF on HumanEval, MBPP, and creative writing benchmarks.
RGSE adapts text embeddings at test time via evolutionary search, using cosine similarity rewards from high-confidence visual proposals to improve open-vocabulary object detection under distribution shifts.
Global-MPPI integrates kernel SOS global search with MPPI local refinement and graduated non-convexity smoothing to achieve faster convergence and lower costs on high-dimensional contact-rich manipulation tasks.
Introduces a single-number performance measure, file-based benchmarking, and efficient text-file storage to evaluate and compare stopping criteria for EMO algorithms.
CCV-QAOA is a new complex-valued continuous-variable variant of QAOA that solves real and complex multivariate optimization problems via a variational framework.
A flow-matching model derives manipulation strategies from object affordance, adds an adversarial interaction prior, and uses stability simulation to generate natural, effective human-human co-manipulation motions.
A k-nearest-neighbor approach constructs problem-specific algorithm portfolios that outperform both single solvers and the virtual best solver in fixed-budget black-box optimization.
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