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Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are explored as a tool for probing new physics with high dimensionality. We study the 19-dimensional pMSSM, including experimental constraints from all sources and assessing the consistency of potential signals of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-14 Steven Abel , David G. Cerdeno , Sandra Robles

Genetic algorithms are a class of heuristic search techniques that apply basic evolutionary operators in a computational setting. We have designed a fully parallel and distributed hardware/software implementation of the generalized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. S. Metcalfe , P. Charbonneau

In real-time trajectory planning for unmanned vehicles, on-board sensors, radars and other instruments are used to collect information on possible obstacles to be avoided and pathways to be followed. Since, in practice, observations of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-09-25 Adriano Zanin Zambom , Julian A. A. Collazos , Ronaldo Dias

Genetic programming is a powerful heuristic search technique that is used for a number of real world applications to solve among others regression, classification, and time-series forecasting problems. A lot of progress towards a theoretic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Gabriel Kronberger , Stephan Winkler , Michael Affenzeller , Andreas Beham , Stefan Wagner

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

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…

Genetic Algorithms (GA) are a class of metaheuristic global optimization methods inspired by the process of natural selection among individuals in a population. Despite their widespread use, a comprehensive theoretical analysis of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Giacomo Borghi , Lorenzo Pareschi

We investigate a family of $(\mu+\lambda)$ Genetic Algorithms (GAs) which creates offspring either from mutation or by recombining two randomly chosen parents. By scaling the crossover probability, we can thus interpolate from a fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Furong Ye , Hao Wang , Carola Doerr , Thomas Bäck

Although the applications of Non-Homogeneous Poisson Processes to model and study the threshold overshoots of interest in different time series of measurements have proven to provide good results, they needed to be complemented with an…

Applications · Statistics 2023-09-15 Biviana Marcela Suárez-Sierra , Arrigo Coen , Carlos Alberto Taimal

The Building Block Hypothesis (BBH) states that adaptive systems combine good partial solutions (so-called building blocks) to find increasingly better solutions. It is thought that Genetic Algorithms (GAs) implement the BBH. However, for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Jack McKay Fletcher , Thomas Wennekers

This paper provides an in-depth empirical analysis of several evolutionary algorithms on the one-dimensional spin glass model with power-law interactions. The considered spin glass model provides a mechanism for tuning the effective range…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-07-29 Martin Pelikan , Helmut G. Katzgraber

We present a method for reliably determining the lowest energy structure of an atomic cluster in an arbitrary model potential. The method is based on a genetic algorithm, which operates on a population of candidate structures to produce new…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-28 D. M. Deaven , K. M. Ho

Genetic algorithms (GAs) emulate the process of biological evolution, in a computational setting, in order to generate good solutions to difficult search and optimisation problems. GA-based optimisers tend to be extremely robust and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-09 Vinesh Rajpaul

Genetic Algorithms are widely used in many different optimization problems including layout design. The layout of the shelves play an important role in the total sales metrics for superstores since this affects the customers' shopping…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Hamide Ozlem Dalgic , Erkan Bostanci , Mehmet Serdar Guzel

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

The choice of crossover and mutation strategies plays a crucial role in the searchability, convergence efficiency and precision of genetic algorithms. In this paper, a novel improved genetic algorithm is proposed by improving the crossover…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Dingming Yang , Zeyu Yu , Hongqiang Yuan , Yanrong Cui

Protein structure prediction can be shown to be an NP-hard problem; the number of conformations grows exponentially with the number of residues. The native conformations of proteins occupy a very small subset of these, hence an exploratory,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Mehul M. Khimasia , Peter V. Coveney

Inspired by the effectiveness of genetic algorithms and the importance of synthesizability in molecular design, we present SynGA, a simple genetic algorithm that operates directly over synthesis routes. Our method features custom crossover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Alston Lo , Connor W. Coley , Wojciech Matusik

In general, we can not use algebraic or enumerative methods to optimize a quality control (QC) procedure so as to detect the critical random and systematic analytical errors with stated probabilities, while the probability for false…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Aristides T. Hatjimihail , Theophanes T. Hatjimihail

In early-stage architectural design, optimization algorithms are essential for efficiently exploring large and complex design spaces under tight computational constraints. While prior research has benchmarked various optimization methods,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Farnaz Nazari , Wei Yan