A rigorous runtime analysis of the 2-MMASib on jump functions: ant colony optimizers can cope well with local optima. - Riade Benbaki; Ziyad Benomar; Benjamin Doerr (GECCO, 2021)

Dynamic Covariance Estimation under Structural Assumptions via a Joint Optimization Approach. - Wenyu Chen 003; Riade Benbaki; Yada Zhu; Rahul Mazumder (ICAIF, 2023)

Fast as CHITA: Neural Network Pruning with Combinatorial Optimization. - Riade Benbaki; Wenyu Chen 003; Xiang Meng 004; Hussein Hazimeh 001; Natalia Ponomareva 001; Zhe Zhao 001; Rahul Mazumder (ICML, 2023)

FALCON: FLOP-Aware Combinatorial Optimization for Neural Network Pruning. - Xiang Meng 004; Wenyu Chen 003; Riade Benbaki; Rahul Mazumder (AISTATS, 2024)