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Evolutionary algorithms (EA) have been widely accepted as efficient solvers for complex real world optimization problems, including engineering optimization. However, real world optimization problems often involve uncertain environment…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Maumita Bhattacharya , R. Islam , A. Mahmood

Evolution is the process of optimal adaptation of biological populations to their living environments. This is expressed via the concept of fitness, defined as relative reproductive success. However, it has been pointed out that this…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-17 Luís MA Bettencourt , Brandon J Grandison , Jordan T Kemp

The human ability to flexibly reason using analogies with domain-general content depends on mechanisms for identifying relations between concepts, and for mapping concepts and their relations across analogs. Building on a recent model of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Hongjing Lu , Nicholas Ichien , Keith J. Holyoak

The profound impact of Darwin's theory of evolution on biology has led to the acceptance of the theory in many complex systems that lie well beyond its original domain. Culture is one example that also exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-07 Seungkyu Shin , Juyong Park

Finding the optimal parameter setting (i.e. the optimal population size, the optimal mutation probability, the optimal evolutionary model etc) for an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) is a difficult task. Instead of evolving only the parameters…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mihai Oltean , Crina Groşan

We propose a genetic algorithm (GA) based method for modifying n-best lists produced by a machine translation (MT) system. Our method offers an innovative approach to improving MT quality and identifying weaknesses in evaluation metrics.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Josef Jon , Ondřej Bojar

This paper shows how the Bayesian network paradigm can be used in order to solve combinatorial optimization problems. To do it some methods of structure learning from data and simulation of Bayesian networks are inserted inside Estimation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Pedro Larrañaga , Ramon Etxeberria , Jose A. Lozano , Jose M. Pena

As artificial intelligence systems (AIs) become increasingly produced by recursive self-improvement, a form of evolution may emerge, with the traits of AI systems shaped by the success of earlier AIs in designing and propagating their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kenneth D Harris

The analysis of the creation, mutation, and propagation of social media content on the Internet is an essential problem in computational social science, affecting areas ranging from marketing to political mobilization. A first step towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Abhimanyu Dubey , Esteban Moro , Manuel Cebrian , Iyad Rahwan

Differential Evolution (DE) is a renowned optimization stratagem that can easily solve nonlinear and comprehensive problems. DE is a well known and uncomplicated population based probabilistic approach for comprehensive optimization. It has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Sandeep Kumar , Vivek Kumar Sharma , Rajani Kumari

This paper introduces the Contextual Evaluation Model (CEM), a novel method for knowledge representation and manipulation. The CEM differs from existing models in that it integrates facts, patterns and sequences into a single contextual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Victor E Hansen

Inspired by biological evolution, we explain the rationality of Vision Transformer by analogy with the proven practical Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) and derive that both of them have consistent mathematical representation. Analogous to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Jiangning Zhang , Chao Xu , Jian Li , Wenzhou Chen , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Shuo Chen , Chengjie Wang , Feiyue Huang , Yong Liu

Semantic feature norms have been foundational in the study of human conceptual knowledge, yet traditional methods face trade-offs between concept/feature coverage and verifiability of quality due to the labor-intensive nature of norming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Siddharth Suresh , Kushin Mukherjee , Tyler Giallanza , Xizheng Yu , Mia Patil , Jonathan D. Cohen , Timothy T. Rogers

Current evaluation paradigms for large language models (LLMs) characterize models and datasets separately, yielding coarse descriptions: items in datasets are treated as pre-labeled entries, and models are summarized by overall scores such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Luzhou Peng , Zhengxin Yang , Honglu Ji , Yikang Yang , Fanda Fan , Wanling Gao , Jiayuan Ge , Yilin Han , Jianfeng Zhan

Memetic Computing is a subject in computer science which considers complex structures as the combination of simple agents, memes, whose evolutionary interactions lead to intelligent structures capable of problem-solving. This paper focuses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-23 G. Iacca , F. Neri , E. Mininno , Y. S. Ong , M. H. Lim

Elitism, which constructs the new population by preserving best solutions out of the old population and newly-generated solutions, has been a default way for population update since its introduction into multi-objective evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zimin Liang , Miqing Li , Per Kristian Lehre

Deep learning relies on the availability of a large corpus of data (labeled or unlabeled). Thus, one challenging unsettled question is: how to train a deep network on a relatively small dataset? To tackle this question, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Ahmed Taha , Abhinav Shrivastava , Larry Davis

We introduce a mathematically rigorous framework for an artificial intelligence system composed of probabilistic agents evolving through structured competition and belief revision. The architecture, grounded in Bayesian inference, measure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Craig Steven Wright

The iterative search process of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) encapsulates optimization knowledge within historical populations and fitness evaluations. Effective utilization of this knowledge is crucial for facilitating knowledge transfer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chao Wang , Lingling Li , Licheng Jiao , Jiaxuan Zhao , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang

Memetic algorithms are popular hybrid search heuristics that integrate local search into the search process of an evolutionary algorithm in order to combine the advantages of rapid exploitation and global optimisation. However, these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Phan Trung Hai Nguyen , Dirk Sudholt