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Many real-world optimization problems occur in environments that change dynamically or involve stochastic components. Evolutionary algorithms and other bio-inspired algorithms have been widely applied to dynamic and stochastic problems.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Vahid Roostapour , Mojgan Pourhassan , Frank Neumann

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) serve as powerful black-box optimizers inspired by biological evolution. However, most existing EAs predominantly focus on heuristic operators such as crossover and mutation, while usually overlooking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kaichen Ouyang , Mingyang Yu , Zong Ke , Junbo Jacob Lian , Shengwei Fu , Xiaoyang Hao , Shengju Yu , Dayu Hu

Molecular discovery, when formulated as an optimization problem, presents significant computational challenges because optimization objectives can be non-differentiable. Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), often used to optimize black-box…

The advantages of evolutionary algorithms with respect to traditional methods have been greatly discussed in the literature. While particle swarm optimizers share such advantages, they outperform evolutionary algorithms in that they require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Johann Sienz , Mauro S. Innocente

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

Surrogate assisted evolutionary algorithms (EA) are rapidly gaining popularity where applications of EA in complex real world problem domains are concerned. Although EAs are powerful global optimizers, finding optimal solution to complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Maumita Bhattacharya

Evolutionary algorithms are bio-inspired algorithms that can easily adapt to changing environments. Recent results in the area of runtime analysis have pointed out that algorithms such as the (1+1)~EA and Global SEMO can efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Vahid Roostapour , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

A new model for evolving Evolutionary Algorithms is proposed in this paper. The model is based on the Linear Genetic Programming (LGP) technique. Every LGP chromosome encodes an EA which is used for solving a particular problem. Several…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Mihai Oltean

Chimera graphs define the topology of one of the first commercially available quantum computers. A variety of optimization problems have been mapped to this topology to evaluate the behavior of quantum enhanced optimization heuristics in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-19 Roberto Santana , Zheng Zhu , Helmut G. Katzgraber

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have emerged as a powerful framework for optimization, especially for black-box optimization. Existing evolutionary algorithms struggle to comprehend and effectively utilize task-specific information for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Kai Wu , Xiaobin Li , Penghui Liu , Jing Liu

Understanding how the time-complexity of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depend on their parameter settings and characteristics of fitness landscapes is a fundamental problem in evolutionary computation. Most rigorous results were derived…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Dogan Corus , Duc-Cuong Dang , Anton V. Eremeev , Per Kristian Lehre

Evolutionary algorithms are widely used to solve optimisation problems. However, challenges of transparency arise in both visualising the processes of an optimiser operating through a problem and understanding the problem features produced…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Mathew Walter , David Walker , Matthew Craven

Evolutionary algorithms have been widely used for a range of stochastic optimization problems in order to address complex real-world optimization problems. We consider the knapsack problem where the profits involve uncertainties. Such a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Aneta Neumann , Yue Xie , Frank Neumann

Optimization for deep networks is currently a very active area of research. As neural networks become deeper, the ability in manually optimizing the network becomes harder. Mini-batch normalization, identification of effective respective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 M. U. B. Dias , D. D. N. De Silva , S. Fernando

he greatest weakness of evolutionary algorithms, widely used today, is the premature convergence due to the loss of population diversity over generations. To overcome this problem, several algorithms have been proposed, such as the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Asmaa Ghoumari , Amir Nakib

Evolutionary algorithms (EA), a class of stochastic search methods based on the principles of natural evolution, have received widespread acclaim for their exceptional performance in various real-world optimization problems. While…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yanjie Song , Yutong Wu , Yangyang Guo , Ran Yan , P. N. Suganthan , Yue Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Swagatam Das , Rammohan Mallipeddi , Oladayo Solomon Ajani. Qiang Feng

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have achieved remarkable success in tackling complex combinatorial optimization problems. However, EAs often demand carefully-designed operators with the aid of domain expertise to achieve satisfactory…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Shengcai Liu , Caishun Chen , Xinghua Qu , Ke Tang , Yew-Soon Ong

Known as two cornerstones of problem solving by search, exploitation and exploration are extensively discussed for implementation and application of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). However, only a few researches focus on evaluation and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Yu Chen , Jun He

Current algorithms used to put a lattice gauge configuration into Landau gauge either suffer from the problem of critical slowing-down or involve an additional computational expense to overcome it. Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), which have…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 J. F. Markham , T. D. Kieu

Evolutionary computation (EC), as a powerful optimization algorithm, has been applied across various domains. However, as the complexity of problems increases, the limitations of EC have become more apparent. The advent of large language…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jinyu Cai , Jinglue Xu , Jialong Li , Takuto Ymauchi , Hitoshi Iba , Kenji Tei