Benchmarking Tabular Foundation Models as Surrogates in Expensive Evolutionary Optimization

arXiv:2609.18130 · cs.NE, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

cs.NE, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 31× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Selection — 11× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Foundation Model — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Foundation Models — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Multi-objective Optimization — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Combinatorial Optimization — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Bayesian Optimization — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Computational overhead — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Initial Data — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Optimization (BO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation — 1× in this paper
• Latin Hypercube Sampling — 1× in this paper
• Objective Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pseudo-labeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pseudo-labels — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Exploiting Function-Family Structure in Analog Circuit Optimization

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