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Manh Cuong Dao

3 accepted papers

2025

ROOT: Rethinking Offline Optimization as Distributional Translation via Probabilistic Bridge

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

This paper studies the black-box optimization task which aims to find the maxima of a black-box function using a static set of its observed input-output pairs. This is often achieved via learning and optimizing a surrogate function with that offline data. Alternatively, it can also be framed as an i…

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2024

Boosting Offline Optimizers with Surrogate Sensitivity

ICML 2024poster

Offline optimization is an important task in numerous material engineering domains where online experimentation to collect data is too expensive and needs to be replaced by an in silico maximization of a surrogate of the black-box function. Although such a surrogate can be learned from offline data,…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2024

Incorporating Surrogate Gradient Norm to Improve Offline Optimization Techniques

NeurIPS 2024poster

Offline optimization has recently emerged as an increasingly popular approach to mitigate the prohibitively expensive cost of online experimentation. The key idea is to learn a surrogate of the black-box function that underlines the target experiment using a static (offline) dataset of its previous…