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Troy D. Loeffler
dblp:259/2791 · also Troy David Loeffler
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2020
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mathematical optimization
black-box optimization |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Combinatorial Black-Box Optimization with Expert Advice · KDD 2020 |
Mathematical optimization
combinatorial optimization |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Combinatorial Black-Box Optimization with Expert Advice · KDD 2020 |
Mathematical optimization › metaheuristic optimization
simulated annealing |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Combinatorial Black-Box Optimization with Expert Advice · KDD 2020 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
simulated annealing · 0.4multilinear polynomials · 0.4exponential weight update · 0.4expert advice · 0.4
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Combinatorial Black-Box Optimization with Expert AdviceabstractWe consider the problem of black-box function optimization over the Boolean hypercube. Despite the vast literature on black-box function optimization over continuous domains, not much attention has been paid to learning models for optimization over combinatorial domains until recently. However, the computational complexity of the recently devised algorithms are prohibitive even for moderate numbers of variables; drawing one sample using the existing algorithms is more expensive than a function evaluation for many black-box functions of interest. To address this problem, we propose a computationally efficient model learning algorithm based on multilinear polynomials and exponential weight updates. In the proposed algorithm, we alternate between simulated annealing with respect to the current polynomial representation and updating the weights using monomial experts' advice. Numerical experiments on various datasets in both unconstrained and sum-constrained Boolean optimization indicate the competitive performance of the proposed algorithm, while improving the computational time up to several orders of magnitude compared to state-of-the-art algorithms in the literature. Hamid Dadkhahi, Karthikeyan Shanmugam 0001, Jesus Rios, Samuel C. Hoffman, Troy D. Loeffler, Subramanian Sankaranarayanan |
KDD | 6 |