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Brenden Petersen

3 accepted papers

2025

DisCo-DSO: Coupling Discrete and Continuous Optimization for Efficient Generative Design in Hybrid Spaces

AAAI 2025technical

We consider the challenge of black-box optimization within hybrid discrete-continuous and variable-length spaces, a problem that arises in various applications, such as decision tree learning and symbolic regression. We propose DisCo-DSO (Discrete-Continuous Deep Symbolic Optimization), a novel appr…

2023

Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Mesh Refinement

AISTATS 2023poster

Finite element simulations of physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDE) crucially depend on adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) to allocate computational budget to regions where higher resolution is required. Existing scalable AMR methods make heuristic refinement decisions based…

Cited by 57SourcePDFScholar
2020

Single Episode Policy Transfer in Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2020poster

Transfer and adaptation to new unknown environmental dynamics is a key challenge for reinforcement learning (RL). An even greater challenge is performing near-optimally in a single attempt at test time, possibly without access to dense rewards, which is not addressed by current methods that require…

Cited by 42SourcecodeScholar