Sakana AI
· Frontier Labs
Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers
We are pleased to present our research at ICML 2026, “Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers”. Full Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25761 When optimizing through simulators, external APIs, or in reinforcement learning, gradients are often unavailable. Black-Box Optimization (BBO) fills this gap, but the field has be