@article{
mirkarimi2026vbomi,
title={{VBO}-{MI}: A Differentiable Black-Box Optimization Framework via Variational Mutual Information Estimation},
author={Farhad Mirkarimi},
journal={Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
issn={2835-8856},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=nkj5zYqJ2p},
note={}
}