Prof. Ofer M. Shir

Research Materials and Presentations

  • Overcoming Coupon Collector's Syndrome when Optimizing Multimodal Domains (MMMOO workshop at PPSN-2024; Hagenberg, Upper Austria, September 2024) pdf
  • Introductory Mathematical Programming for EC (PPSN-2024 tutorial; Hagenberg, Upper Austria, September 2024) pdf
  • Addressing Unboundedness in Quadratically-Constrained Mixed-Integer Problems (arXiv preprint with Guy Zepko) arXiv
  • Avoiding Redundant Restarts in Multimodal Global Optimization (arXiv preprint with Jacob de Nobel, Diederick Vermetten, Anna V. Kononova, and Thomas Bäck) arXiv
  • Veysel Kocaman, Learning from small samples. Doctoral Thesis Universiteit Leiden (joint supervision with Thomas Bäck, 2024): dissertation Leiden-U
  • On the Behavior of the Mixed-Integer SMS-EMOA (GECCO'23 AABOH workshop presentation; Lisbon, Portugal, July 2023) pdf
  • Mind the Gap (Dagstuhl Seminar on Challenges in Benchmarking Optimization Heuristics, 23251, June 2023) pdf
  • Towards AI Research Agents in the Chemical Sciences (ChemRxiv preprint) ChemRxiv
  • Lessons Learned Report: Super-Resolution for Detection Tasks in Engineering Problem-Solving arXiv
  • GWANN: Implementing deep learning in genome wide association studies (bioRxiv preprint with Nimrod Ashkenazy, Martin Feder, and Sariel Hubner) bioRxiv
  • Sequential Experimentation by Evolutionary Algorithms (GECCO'22 joint tutorial with Thomas Bäck; Boston MA, USA, July 2022) ACM/dL
  • Algorithmically-Guided Postharvest by Experimental Combinatorial Optimization (GECCO'22 Presentation, July 2022) pdf
  • Toward an ImageNet Library of Functions for Global Optimization Benchmarking (arXiv preprint with Boris Yazmir) arXiv
  • Ido Dan, Developing models for soil texture classification from ancillary data using machine learning. MSc Thesis Tel-Hai College (joint supervision with Iggy Litaor, 2022): dissertation for download
  • Assaf Israeli, Multiobjective Optimization of Soil Sampling Design Using Information Metrics. MSc Thesis Tel-Hai College (joint supervision with Iggy Litaor, 2020): dissertation for download
  • Chen Erlich, Experimental Combinatorial Optimization of Phycobiliproteins' Expression in E.coli. MSc Thesis Tel-Hai College (joint supervision with Dror Noy, 2019): dissertation for download
  • Compiling a Benchmarking Test-Suite for Combinatorial Black-Box Optimization: A Position Presentation (GECCO'18, July 2018) pdf
  • Fundamentals of ESs' Statistical Learning (Dagstuhl Seminar on Theory of Randomized Optimization Heuristics, 17191, May 2017) pdf
  • On the Covariance-Hessian Relation in Evolution Strategies (arXiv preprint with Amir Yehudayoff) pdf
  • On the Statistical Learning Ability of Evolution Strategies (Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop FOGA-XIV, January 2017) pdf
  • Computational Intelligence in the Natural Sciences: Machine Learning, Optimization, and Heuristic Search (Princeton University Seminar, July 2016) pdf
  • Pareto Automated Recommendation (LIACS Colloquium, Dec. 2014) pdf
  • On Parameterizations and Randomized Search Heuristics in Computationally-Expensive Quantum Control Simulations pdf
  • Doctoral Thesis: manuscript for download

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