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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is susceptible to premature convergence when the swarm collapses around the global best, particularly on multimodal landscapes in higher dimensions. We propose Divergence-guided PSO (DPSO), which augments…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kleyton da Costa , Bernardo Modenesi , Ivan F. M. Menezes , Hélio Lopes

Motion planning is a key element of robotics since it empowers a robot to navigate autonomously. Particle Swarm Optimization is a simple, yet a very powerful optimization technique which has been effectively used in many complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-25 M. Shahab Alam , M. Usman Rafique , M. Umer Khan

Swarm based optimization algorithms have demonstrated remarkable success in solving complex optimization problems. However, their widespread adoption remains sceptical due to limited transparency in how different algorithmic components…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Nitin Gupta , Bapi Dutta , Anupam Yadav

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a well-known optimization algorithm that shows good performance in solving different optimization problems. However, PSO usually suffers from slow convergence. In this article, a reinforcement…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yin ShiYuan

In this paper, based on the Quantum-behaved Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm, we evolve the algorithm to optimize a multiobjective optimization problem, namely the Cobb Douglas Habitability function which is based on CES production…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Arun John , Anish Murthy

Optimization problems often require domain-specific expertise to design problem-dependent methodologies. Recently, several approaches have gained attention by integrating large language models (LLMs) into genetic algorithms. Building on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yamato Shinohara , Jinglue Xu , Tianshui Li , Hitoshi Iba

It has been well documented that the use of exponentially-averaged momentum (EM) in particle swarm optimization (PSO) is advantageous over the vanilla PSO algorithm. In the single-objective setting, it leads to faster convergence and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Anwesh Bhattacharya , Snehanshu Saha , Nithin Nagaraj

Particle swarm optimization is a popular method for solving difficult optimization problems. There have been attempts to formulate the method in formal probabilistic or stochastic terms (e.g. bare bones particle swarm) with the aim to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-19 Peter Andras

A global optimization framework, acronymed COMBEO (Change OfMeasure Based Evolutionary Optimization), is proposed. An important aspect in the development is a set of derivative-free additive directional terms obtainable through a change of…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-10 Saikat Sarkar , Debasish Roy

In several application domains, high-dimensional observations are collected and then analysed in search for naturally occurring data clusters which might provide further insights about the nature of the problem. In this paper we describe a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-03-07 Brian McWilliams , Giovanni Montana

This short paper presents a work on the design of low noise microwave amplifiers using particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. Particle Swarm Optimization is used as a method that is applied to a single stage amplifier circuit to meet…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Sadik Ulker

We formulate a novel technique for the detection of functional clusters in discrete event data. The advantage of this algorithm is that no prior knowledge of the number of functional groups is needed, as our procedure progressively combines…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 S. Feldt , J. Waddell , V. L. Hetrick , J. D. Berke , M. Zochowski

This paper preliminarily investigates the duality between flow matching in generative models and particle swarm optimization (PSO) in evolutionary computation. Through theoretical analysis, we reveal the intrinsic connections between these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kaichen Ouyang

Population-based search algorithms (PBSAs), including swarm intelligence algorithms (SIAs) and evolutionary algorithms (EAs), are competitive alternatives for solving complex optimization problems and they have been widely applied to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Guohua Wu

Evolutionary computation (EC) algorithms, such as discrete and multi-objective versions of particle swarm optimization (PSO), have been applied to solve the Feature selection (FS) problem, tackling the combinatorial explosion of search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Hassen Dhrif , Luis G. Sanchez Giraldo , Miroslav Kubat , Stefan Wuchty

The problem of robust extraction of visual odometry from a sequence of images obtained by an eye in hand camera configuration is addressed. A novel approach toward solving planar template based tracking is proposed which performs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Rafid Siddiqui , Siamak Khatibi

This paper presents a particle swarm optimizer for production of endurance time excitation functions. These excitations are intensifying acceleration time histories that are used as input motions in endurance time method. The accuracy of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 Mohammadreza Mashayekhi , Mojtaba Harati , Homayoon E. Estekanchi

In this paper, the uplink direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) multiuser detection problem (MuD) is studied into heuristic perspective, named particle swarm optimization (PSO). Regarding different system improvements for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Taufik Abrão , Leonardo D. Oliveira , Bruno A. Angelico , Paul Jean E. Jeszensky

In transportation planning and development, transport network design problem seeks to optimize specific objectives (e.g. total travel time) through choosing among a given set of projects while keeping consumption of resources (e.g. budget)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-04 Mehran Fasihozaman Langerudi

Swarm Intelligence-based optimization techniques combine systematic exploration of the search space with information available from neighbors and rely strongly on communication among agents. These algorithms are typically employed to solve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Vipul Mann , Abhishek Sivaram , Laya Das , Venkat Venkatasubramanian