Derivative-Free Optimization via Classification. - Yang Yu 001; Hong Qian; Yi-Qi Hu (AAAI, 2016)

A Multi-task Learning Approach by Combining Derivative-Free and Gradient Methods. - Yi-Qi Hu; Yang Yu 001 (BIC-TA (1), 2016)

Derivative-Free Optimization of High-Dimensional Non-Convex Functions by Sequential Random Embeddings. - Hong Qian; Yi-Qi Hu; Yang Yu 001 (IJCAI, 2016)

Symbolic execution of complex program driven by machine learning based constraint solving. - Xin Li; Yongjuan Liang; Hong Qian; Yi-Qi Hu; Lei Bu; Yang Yu 001; Xin Chen 027; Xuandong Li (ASE, 2016)

Sequential Classification-Based Optimization for Direct Policy Search. - Yi-Qi Hu; Hong Qian; Yang Yu 001 (AAAI, 2017)

Experienced Optimization with Reusable Directional Model for Hyper-Parameter Search. - Yi-Qi Hu; Yang Yu 001; Zhi-Hua Zhou (IJCAI, 2018)

ZOOpt/ZOOjl: Toolbox for Derivative-Free Optimization. - Yu-Ren Liu; Yi-Qi Hu; Hong Qian; Yang Yu 001; Chao Qian 001 (CoRR, 2018)

Taking Human out of Learning Applications: A Survey on Automated Machine Learning. - Quanming Yao; Mengshuo Wang; Hugo Jair Escalante; Isabelle Guyon; Yi-Qi Hu; Yufeng Li 008; Wei-Wei Tu; Qiang Yang 001; Yang Yu 001 (CoRR, 2018)

Multi-Fidelity Automatic Hyper-Parameter Tuning via Transfer Series Expansion. - Yi-Qi Hu; Yang Yu 001; Wei-Wei Tu; Qiang Yang 001; Yuqiang Chen; Wenyuan Dai (AAAI, 2019)

Asynchronous classification-based optimization. - Yu-Ren Liu; Yi-Qi Hu; Hong Qian; Yang Yu 001 (DAI, 2019)

Cascaded Algorithm-Selection and Hyper-Parameter Optimization with Extreme-Region Upper Confidence Bound Bandit. - Yi-Qi Hu; Yang Yu 001; Jun-Da Liao (IJCAI, 2019)

Derivative-Free Optimization with Adaptive Experience for Efficient Hyper-Parameter Tuning. - Yi-Qi Hu; Zelin Liu; Hua Yang; Yang Yu 001; Yunfeng Liu (ECAI, 2020)

A technical view on neural architecture search. - Yi-Qi Hu; Yang Yu 001 (Int. J. Mach. Learn. Cybern., 2020)

Machine learning steered symbolic execution framework for complex software code. - Lei Bu; Yongjuan Liang; Zhunyi Xie; Hong Qian; Yi-Qi Hu; Yang Yu 001; Xin Chen 027; Xuandong Li (Formal Aspects Comput., 2021)

ZOOpt: a toolbox for derivative-free optimization. - Yu-Ren Liu; Yi-Qi Hu; Hong Qian; Chao Qian 001; Yang Yu 001 (Sci. China Inf. Sci., 2022)

Cascaded Algorithm Selection With Extreme-Region UCB Bandit. - Yi-Qi Hu; Xu-Hui Liu; Shu-Qiao Li; Yang Yu 001 (IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 2022)

Rethinking Optimization and Architecture for Tiny Language Models. - Yehui Tang; Kai Han 002; Fangcheng Liu; Yunsheng Ni; Yuchuan Tian; Zheyuan Bai; Yi-Qi Hu; Sichao Liu; Shangling Jui; Yunhe Wang 001 (ICML, 2024)

EFPC: Towards Efficient and Flexible Prompt Compression. - Yun-Hao Cao; Yangsong Wang; Shuzheng Hao; Zhenxing Li; Chengjun Zhan; Sichao Liu; Yi-Qi Hu (CoRR, 2025)