2026
Causal Newton Optimization: Online Calibration with Iterative Local Linear Modeling and Newton Updates
IJCAI 2026
Optimization in industrial systems often involves calibrating from a semi-optimized state, where global exploration methods like Reinforcement Learning (RL) or Bayesian Optimization (BO) are inefficient or unsafe. We propose Causal Newton Optimization (CNO), an online algorithm that iteratively cali