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This paper proposes Genetic Algorithm with Border Trades (GAB), a novel modification of the standard genetic algorithm that enhances exploration by incorporating new chromosome patterns in the breeding process. This approach significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Qingchuan Lyu

Quantum computing leverages the unique properties of qubits and quantum parallelism to solve problems intractable for classical systems, offering unparalleled computational potential. However, the optimization of quantum circuits remains…

In the past decade, significant research has been carried out for realizing intelligent network routing using advertisement, position and near-optimum node selection schemes. In this paper, a grade-based two-level node selection method…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-02 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kavitha Sooda

Evolution Strategies are inspired in biology and part of a larger research field known as Evolutionary Algorithms. Those strategies perform a random search in the space of admissible functions, aiming to optimize some given objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-12-30 Pedro A. F. Cruz , Delfim F. M. Torres

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained a significant attraction in the recent years due to their increasing real-world applications. Their performance is highly dependent to the network structure and the selected optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Parsa Esfahanian , Mohammad Akhavan

Many statistical problems involve optimization over a discrete parameter space having an unknown dimension. In such settings, gradient-based methods often fail due to the non-differentiability of the objective function or a non-convex or…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-19 Mo Li , QiQi Lu , Robert Lund , Xueheng Shi

Existing Genetic Algorithms for crystal structure and polymorph prediction can suffer from stagnation during evolution, with a consequent loss of efficiency and accuracy. An improved Genetic Algorithm (GA) is introduced herein which…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-13 N. L. Abraham , M. I. J. Probert

In recent years, optimization problems have become increasingly more prevalent due to the need for more powerful computational methods. With the more recent advent of technology such as artificial intelligence, new metaheuristics are needed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Okezue Bell

We propose an extended genetic algorithm (GA) with different local environmental conditions. Genetic entities, or configurations, are put on nodes in a ring structure, and location-dependent environmental conditions are applied for each…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-06-22 Daekyung Lee , Beom Jun Kim

In general Evolutionary Computation (EC) includes a number of optimization methods inspired by biological mechanisms of evolution. The methods catalogued in this area use the Darwinian principles of life evolution to produce algorithms that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-11 José A. García Gutiérrez , Carlos Cotta , Antonio J. Fernández-Leiva

GA LLM is a hybrid framework that combines Genetic Algorithms with Large Language Models to handle structured generation tasks under strict constraints. Each output, such as a plan or report, is treated as a gene, and evolutionary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 William Shum , Rachel Chan , Jonas Lin , Benny Feng , Patrick Lau

Universal induction relies on some general search procedure that is doomed to be inefficient. One possibility to achieve both generality and efficiency is to specialize this procedure w.r.t. any given narrow task. However, complete…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Alexey Potapov , Sergey Rodionov

For various optimization methods, gradient descent-based algorithms can achieve outstanding performance and have been widely used in various tasks. Among those commonly used algorithms, ADAM owns many advantages such as fast convergence…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Jiyang Bai , Yuxiang Ren , Jiawei Zhang

In Search Based Software Engineering, Genetic Programming has been used for bug fixing, performance improvement and parallelisation of programs through the modification of source code. Where an evolutionary computation algorithm, such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-22 Brendan Cody-Kenny , Stephen Barrett

Genetic algorithm (GA) is a stochastic metaheuristic process consisting on the evolution of a population of candidate solutions for a given optimization problem. By extension, multipopulation genetic algorithm (MPGA) aims for efficiency by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Bruno Messias , Bruno W. D. Morais

Since genetic algorithm was proposed by John Holland (Holland J. H., 1975) in the early 1970s, the study of evolutionary algorithm has emerged as a popular research field (Civicioglu & Besdok, 2013). Researchers from various scientific and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Ka-Chun Wong

This paper addresses the path selection problem from a known sender to the receiver. The proposed work shows path selection using genetic algorithm(GA)and simulated annealing (SA) approaches. In genetic algorithm approach, the multi point…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kavitha Sooda

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

Evolving one-dimensional cellular automata (CAs) with genetic algorithms has provided insight into how improved performance on a task requiring global coordination emerges when only local interactions are possible. Two approaches that can…

adap-org · Physics 2007-05-23 Justin Werfel , Melanie Mitchell , James P. Crutchfield

The field of engineering is shaped by the tools and methods used to solve problems. Optimization is one such class of powerful, robust, and effective engineering tools proven over decades of use. Within just a few years, generative…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Lyle Regenwetter , Cyril Picard , Amin Heyrani Nobari , Akash Srivastava , Faez Ahmed