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Genetic algorithms are modeled after the biological evolutionary processes that use natural selection to select the best species to survive. They are heuristics based and low cost to compute. Genetic algorithms use selection, crossover, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Mee Seong Im , Venkat R. Dasari

Functions of chemical composition are complex and discrete in nature making it impossible to optimize them with gradient methods. Genetic algorithms, which do not use derivative information, are used to maximize the thermal conductivity of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-30 Alexander Kerr , Kieran Mullen

Nowadays genetic algorithm (GA) is greatly used in engineering pedagogy as an adaptive technique to learn and solve complex problems and issues. It is a meta-heuristic approach that is used to solve hybrid computation challenges. GA…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tanweer Alam , Shamimul Qamar , Amit Dixit , Mohamed Benaida

Future measurements of the nature of dark energy using Type Ia supernovae will require a precise characterization of systematic sources of error. Evolutionary effects remain the most uncertain contributor to the overall systematic error…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Adam G Riess , Mario Livio

Several types of numerical and combinatorial optimization algorithms have been used as useful tools to minimize functional forms. Generally, when those forms are non-linear or occur in problems without a specific optimization method,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luiz Fernando Roncaratti , Ricardo Gargano , Geraldo Magela e Silva

A coding of functions that allows a genetic algorithm to minimize functionals without analytic trial functions is presented and implemented for solving numerically some instances of variational problems from physics.

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos D. Toledo

Generating molecules, both in a directed and undirected fashion, is a huge part of the drug discovery pipeline. Genetic algorithms (GAs) generate molecules by randomly modifying known molecules. In this paper we show that GAs are very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Austin Tripp , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

In this article we show that the reconstructions of semiconductor surfaces can be determined using a genetic procedure. Coupled with highly optimized interatomic potentials, the present approach represents an efficient tool for finding and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 F. C. Chuang , C. V. Ciobanu , V. B. Shenoy , C. Z. Wang , K. M. Ho

The genetic algorithm is an optimization procedure motivated by biological evolution and is successfully applied to optimization problems in different areas. A statistical mechanics model for its dynamics is proposed based on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan Bornholdt

Recently, researchers have applied genetic algorithms (GAs) to address some problems in quantum computation. Also, there has been some works in the designing of genetic algorithms based on quantum theoretical concepts and techniques. The so…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gilson A. Giraldi , Renato Portugal , Ricardo N. Thess

This paper presents our computational methodology using Genetic Algorithms (GA) for exploring the nature of RNA editing. These models are constructed using several genetic editing characteristics that are gleaned from the RNA editing system…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 C. Huang , L. M. Rocha

We introduce Genetic AI, a novel method for multi-objective optimization without external parameters or predefined weights. The method can be applied to all problems that can be formulated in matrix form and allows for a data-less training…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Philipp Wissgott

We propose genetic algorithms, which are robust optimization techniques inspired by natural selection, to enhance the versatility of digital quantum simulations. In this sense, we show that genetic algorithms can be employed to increase the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 U. Las Heras , U. Alvarez-Rodriguez , E. Solano , M. Sanz

Genetic Algorithms (GA) are a powerful tool for stochastic optimisation and non-parametric symbolic regression, already widely used in cosmology. They are capable of reconstructing analytical functions directly from data points without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Matteo Peronaci , Matteo Martinelli , Savvas Nesseris

In this article we provide a comprehensive review of the different evolutionary algorithm techniques used to address multimodal optimization problems, classifying them according to the nature of their approach. On the one hand there are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Noe Casas

Solving Quadratic equation is one of the intrinsic interests as it is the simplest nonlinear equations. A novel approach for solving Quadratic Equation based on Genetic Algorithms (GAs) is presented. Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are a technique…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Tanistha Nayak , Tirtharaj Dash

We propose a genetic algorithm (GA) for hyperparameter optimization of artificial neural networks which includes chromosomal crossover as well as a decoupling of parameters (i.e., weights and biases) from hyperparameters (e.g., learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Aaron Vose , Jacob Balma , Alex Heye , Alessandro Rigazzi , Charles Siegel , Diana Moise , Benjamin Robbins , Rangan Sukumar

Observation of thousands of type Ia supernovae should offer the most direct approach to probe the dark energy content of the universe. This will be undertaken by future large ground-based surveys followed by a space mission (SNAP/JDEM). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -M. Virey , P. Taxil , A. Tilquin , A. Ealet , D. Fouchez , C. Tao

We employ an evolutionary algorithm to automatically optimize different stages of a cold atom experiment without human intervention. This approach closes the loop between computer based experimental control systems and automatic real time…

Genetic algorithms, which mimic evolutionary processes to solve optimization problems, can be enhanced by using powerful semi-local search algorithms as mutation operators. Here, we introduce reverse quantum annealing, a class of quantum…