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Efficient techniques to navigate networks with local information are fundamental to sample large-scale online social systems and to retrieve resources in peer-to-peer systems. Biased random walks, i.e. walks whose motion is biased on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-29 Federico Battiston , Vincenzo Nicosia , Vito Latora

In tree search problem the best-first search algorithm needs too much of space . To remove such drawbacks of these algorithms the IDA* was developed which is both space and time cost efficient. But again IDA* can give an optimal solution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 S. Mohanty , R. N. Behera

This is a survey of "Iterated Local Search", a general purpose metaheuristic for finding good solutions of combinatorial optimization problems. It is based on building a sequence of (locally optimal) solutions by: (1) perturbing the current…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 H. R. Lourenco , O. C. Martin , T. Stutzle

Autonomous navigation often requires the simultaneous optimization of multiple objectives. The most common approach scalarizes these into a single cost function using a weighted sum, but this method is unable to find all possible trade-offs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Krishna Kalavadia , Shamak Dutta , Yash Vardhan Pant , Stephen L. Smith

This chapter overviews a recently introduced network-based model of combinatorial landscapes: Local Optima Networks (LON). The model compresses the information given by the whole search space into a smaller mathematical object that is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Gabriela Ochoa , Sébastien Verel , Fabio Daolio , Marco Tomassini

This paper investigates what properties a neighbourhood requires to support beneficial local search. We show that neighbourhood locality, and a reduction in cost probability towards the optimum, support a proof that search among neighbours…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Mark G. Wallace

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are amortized sampling methods that learn a distribution over discrete objects proportional to their rewards. GFlowNets exhibit a remarkable ability to generate diverse samples, yet occasionally struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Minsu Kim , Taeyoung Yun , Emmanuel Bengio , Dinghuai Zhang , Yoshua Bengio , Sungsoo Ahn , Jinkyoo Park

We propose a unifying framework for smoothed analysis of combinatorial local optimization problems, and show how a diverse selection of problems within the complexity class PLS can be cast within this model. This abstraction allows us to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Alexander Grosz , Themistoklis Melissourgos

Recommender systems can change our life a lot and help us select suitable and favorite items much more conveniently and easily. As a consequence, various kinds of algorithms have been proposed in last few years to improve the performance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Jinhu Liu , Chengcheng Yang , Zi-Ke Zhang

In light of Phillips' contention regarding the impracticality of Search Neutrality, asserting that non-epistemic factors presently dictate result prioritization, our objective in this study is to confront this constraint by questioning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shiran Dudy

Slow self-avoiding adaptive walks by an infinite radius search algorithm (Limax) are analyzed as themselves, and as the network they form. The study is conducted on several NK problems and two HIFF problems. We find that examination of such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Susan Khor

We propose a novel method for multi-objective motion planning problems by leveraging the paradigm of lexicographic optimization and applying it for the first time to graph search over probabilistic roadmaps. The competing resources of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot

This paper studies a strategy for data-driven algorithm design for large-scale combinatorial optimization problems that can leverage existing state-of-the-art solvers in general purpose ways. The goal is to arrive at new approaches that can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Jialin Song , Ravi Lanka , Yisong Yue , Bistra Dilkina

Iteration complexities for optimizing smooth functions with first-order algorithms are typically stated in terms of a global Lipschitz constant of the gradient, and near-optimal results are then achieved using fixed step sizes. But many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Curtis Fox , Aaron Mishkin , Sharan Vaswani , Mark Schmidt

Local search is widely used to solve combinatorial optimisation problems and to model biological evolution, but the performance of local search algorithms on different kinds of fitness landscapes is poorly understood. Here we consider how…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Artem Kaznatcheev , David A. Cohen , Peter G. Jeavons

In this work we investigate the effectiveness of the application of niching able swarm metaheuristic approaches in order to solve constrained optimization problems. Sub-swarms are used in order to allow the achievement of many feasible…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Joao Batista Monteiro Filho , Isabela Maria Carneiro de Albuquerque , Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto

There has been an increasing concern to reduce the energy consumption in manufacturing and other industries. Energy consumption in manufacturing industries is directly related to efficient schedules. The contribution of this paper includes:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Vigneshwar Pesaru , Venkataramanaiah Saddikuti

In real-world applications, users often favor structurally diverse design choices over one high-quality solution. It is hence important to consider more solutions that decision makers can compare and further explore based on additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Maria Laura Santoni , Elena Raponi , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Mike Preuss , Carola Doerr

Recently, several approaches successfully demonstrated that weight-sharing Neural Architecture Search (NAS) can effectively explore a search space of elastic low-rank adapters (LoRA), allowing the parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 J. Pablo Muñoz , Jinjie Yuan , Nilesh Jain

This paper proposes an iterative methodology to integrate large-scale behavioral activity-based models with dynamic traffic assignment models. The main novelty of the proposed approach is the decoupling of the two parts, allowing the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Serio Agriesti , Claudio Roncoli , Bat-hen Nahmias-Biran