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There is no free lunch, no single learning algorithm that will outperform other algorithms on all data. In practice different approaches are tried and the best algorithm selected. An alternative solution is to build new algorithms on demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Włodzisław Duch , Karol Grudzińsk

Swarm intelligence and bio-inspired algorithms form a hot topic in the developments of new algorithms inspired by nature. These nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms can be based on swarm intelligence, biological systems, physical and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-17 Iztok Fister , Xin-She Yang , Iztok Fister , Janez Brest , Dušan Fister

We propose a novel, flexible algorithm for combining together metaheuristicoptimizers for non-convex optimization problems. Our approach treatsthe constituent optimizers as a team of complex agents that communicateinformation amongst each…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Sujit Pramod Khanna , Alexander Ororbia

This paper presents and experiments approaches to solve a new bi-objective routing problem called the ring star problem. It consists of locating a simple cycle through a subset of nodes of a graph while optimizing two kinds of cost. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Arnaud Liefooghe , Laetitia Jourdan , El-Ghazali Talbi

Heuristics are crucial tools in decreasing search effort in varied fields of AI. In order to be effective, a heuristic must be efficient to compute, as well as provide useful information to the search algorithm. However, some well-known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-04-12 David Tolpin , Solomon Eyal Shimony

Hashing has been widely used for efficient similarity search based on its query and storage efficiency. To obtain better precision, most studies focus on designing different objective functions with different constraints or penalty terms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Yilong Yin

In this modern era a great deal of metamorphism is observed around us which eventuate due to some minute modifications and innovations in the area of Science and Technology. This paper deals with the application of a meta heuristic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-06-12 A. Sai Charan , N. K. Manasa , Prof. N. V. S. N. Sarma

This review examines over 150 new metaheuristics of the last six years (between 2019 and 2024), underscoring their profound influence and performance. Over the past three decades, more than 500 new metaheuristic algorithms have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tansel Dokeroglu , Deniz Canturk , Tayfun Kucukyilmaz

Automating the design of heuristic search methods is an active research field within computer science, artificial intelligence and operational research. In order to make these methods more generally applicable, it is important to eliminate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Edmund Burke , Tim Curtois , Matthew Hyde , Gabriela Ochoa , Jose A. Vazquez-Rodriguez

Understanding the behavior of numerical metaheuristic optimization algorithms is critical for advancing their development and application. Traditional visualization techniques, such as convergence plots, trajectory mapping, and fitness…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Gjorgjina Cenikj , Gašper Petelin , Tome Eftimov

Several different ways exist for approaching hard optimization problems. Mathematical programming techniques, including (integer) linear programming-based methods and metaheuristic approaches, are two highly successful streams for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Hengameh Fakhravar

This paper presents a novel hybrid algorithm named Since Cosine Crow Search Algorithm. To propose the SCCSA, two novel algorithms are considered including Crow Search Algorithm (CSA) and Since Cosine Algorithm (SCA). The advantages of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Seyed Hamid Reza Pasandideh , Soheyl Khalilpourazari

We introduce an open source python framework named PHS - Parallel Hyperparameter Search to enable hyperparameter optimization on numerous compute instances of any arbitrary python function. This is achieved with minimal modifications inside…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Peter Michael Habelitz , Janis Keuper

The domain of metaheuristic optimization has become vibrant due to a flood of new algorithms using a new nature-inspired metaphor but lacking clear methodological novelty. The Criticism behind the development of these algorithms has reached…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Iztok Fister , Žan Hozjan , Iztok Fister, , Damjan Strnad

Existing unsupervised hash learning is a kind of attribute-centered calculation. It may not accurately preserve the similarity between data. This leads to low down the performance of hash function learning. In this paper, a hash algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Shichao Zhang , Jiaye Li

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a ubiquitous problem in computational biology. Although it is NP-hard to find an optimal solution for an arbitrary number of sequences, due to the importance of this problem researchers are trying to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-29 S. Schroedl

The growing complexity of real-world problems has motivated computer scientists to search for efficient problem-solving methods. Metaheuristics based on evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence are outstanding examples of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-10 James J. Q. Yu , Victor O. K. Li

Nearest neighbor search aims to obtain the samples in the database with the smallest distances from them to the queries, which is a basic task in a range of fields, including computer vision and data mining. Hashing is one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Xiao Luo , Haixin Wang , Daqing Wu , Chong Chen , Minghua Deng , Jianqiang Huang , Xian-Sheng Hua

The hm admissible heuristics for (sequential and temporal) regression planning are defined by a parameterized relaxation of the optimal cost function in the regression search space, where the parameter m offers a trade-off between the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-28 P. Haslum

A sketch of the chapter appearing under the same heading in the book ``New Optimization Algorithms in Physics'' (A.K. Hartmann and H. Rieger, Eds.) is given. After a general introduction to spin glasses, important aspects of heuristic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Olivier C. Martin
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