Geometric Probing for Algorithm Selection in Continuous Black-Box Optimization

arXiv:2604.09095 · cs.LG, math.OC · Submitted 2026-04-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, math.OC

Submitted: 2026-04-10

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• On the Structural (Dis)Agreement of Landscape Representations in Black-Box Optimization
• Beyond Numerical Features: CNN-Driven Algorithm Selection via Contour Plots for Continuous Black-Box Optimization
• How to generate random matrices from the classical compact groups
• COCO: Performance Assessment
• MECHBench: A Set of Black-Box Optimization Benchmarks originated from Structural Mechanics
• Randomness as Reference: Benchmark Metric for Optimization in Engineering

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