Black-Box Optimization From Small Offline Datasets via Meta Learning with Synthetic Tasks

arXiv:2604.12325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider the problem of offline black-box optimization, where the goal is to discover optimal designs (e.g., molecules or materials) from past experimental data. A key challenge in this setting is data scarcity: in many scientific applications, only small or poor-quality datasets are available, which severely limits the effectiveness of existing algorithms. Prior work has theoretically and empirically shown that performance of offline optimiza