publications

2026

1. Swarm Evol. Comput.

   A Framework for Ensuring Invariance of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms to Order-Preserving Transformation of Objective Functions

   Yutaro Yamada, Kento Uchida, and Shinichi Shirakawa

   Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2026

   DOI
2. NeurIPS 2026 E&D

   BBOWP-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Black-Box Optimization Word Problems

   Yutaro Yamada, Kei Hiroshima, Nozomu Yoshinari, and 2 more authors

   2026

   arXiv Code
3. GECCO 2026

   Hierarchical Evolution Strategy for Optimization of Sharp Ridge

   Sota Hamada, Yutaro Yamada, Kento Uchida, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Jul 2026

   DOI
4. EvoStar 2026

   Weight Adaptation for Improving Parallel Performance of Adaptive Stochastic Natural Gradient

   Yutaro Yamada, Kento Uchida, and Shinichi Shirakawa

   In Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, 2026

   Awarded DOI arXiv Code

   EvoCOP Best Paper Nominee, Outstanding Student

2025

1. GECCO 2025

   Learning rate adaptation CMA-ES for multimodal and noisy problems with low effective dimensionality

   Haruhito Nakagawa, Yutaro Yamada, Kento Uchida, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, Jul 2025

   DOI

2024

1. GECCO 2024

   How to make multi-objective evolutionary algorithms invariant to monotonically increasing transformation of objective functions

   Yutaro Yamada, Kento Uchida, and Shinichi Shirakawa

   In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, Jul 2024

   DOI

2023

1. EvoStar 2023

   Surrogate-Assisted (1+1)-CMA-ES with Switching Mechanism of Utility Functions

   Yutaro Yamada, Kento Uchida, Shota Saito, and 1 more author

   In Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 2023

   DOI