English
Related papers

Related papers: A Critical Reassessment of Evolutionary Algorithms…

200 papers

Genetic algorithms constitute a family of black-box optimization algorithms, which take inspiration from the principles of biological evolution. While they provide a general-purpose tool for optimization, their particular instantiations can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Robert Tjarko Lange , Tom Schaul , Yutian Chen , Chris Lu , Tom Zahavy , Valentin Dalibard , Sebastian Flennerhag

Genetic algorithms are heuristic optimization techniques inspired by Darwinian evolution, which are characterized by successfully finding robust solutions for optimization problems. Here, we propose a subroutine-based quantum genetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Rubén Ibarrondo , Giancarlo Gatti , Mikel Sanz

Different scaling properties for the complexity of bidirectional synchronization and unidirectional learning are essential for the security of neural cryptography. Incrementing the synaptic depth of the networks increases the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Ruttor , Wolfgang Kinzel , Rivka Naeh , Ido Kanter

This paper describes the software implementation of genetic algorithm for identifying and selecting most relevant results received during sequentially executed subject search operations. Simulated evolutionary process generates sustainable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-17 V. K. Ivanov , P. I. Meskin

Solving an optimization task in any domain is a very challenging problem, especially when dealing with nonlinear problems and non-convex functions. Many meta-heuristic algorithms are very efficient when solving nonlinear functions. A…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mona Nasr , Omar Farouk , Ahmed Mohamedeen , Ali Elrafie , Marwan Bedeir , Ali Khaled

Genetic Algorithms (GA) are a powerful tool for stochastic optimisation and non-parametric symbolic regression, already widely used in cosmology. They are capable of reconstructing analytical functions directly from data points without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Matteo Peronaci , Matteo Martinelli , Savvas Nesseris

The problem of automatic software generation is known as Machine Programming. In this work, we propose a framework based on genetic algorithms to solve this problem. Although genetic algorithms have been used successfully for many problems,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shantanu Mandal , Todd A. Anderson , Javier S. Turek , Justin Gottschlich , Shengtian Zhou , Abdullah Muzahid

Optimization problems frequently appear in any scientific domain. Most of the times, the corresponding decision problem turns out to be NP-hard, and in these cases genetic algorithms are often used to obtain approximated solutions. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Alba Muñoz , Fernando Rubio

Functions of chemical composition are complex and discrete in nature making it impossible to optimize them with gradient methods. Genetic algorithms, which do not use derivative information, are used to maximize the thermal conductivity of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-30 Alexander Kerr , Kieran Mullen

Prime factorization has been a buzzing topic in the field of number theory since time unknown. However, in recent years, alternative avenues to tackle this problem are being explored by researchers because of its direct application in the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Mahadee Al Mobin , Md Kamrujjaman

Genetic Algorithms (GA) are a class of metaheuristic global optimization methods inspired by the process of natural selection among individuals in a population. Despite their widespread use, a comprehensive theoretical analysis of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Giacomo Borghi , Lorenzo Pareschi

Many optimization problems in engineering and industrial design applications can be formulated as optimization problems with highly nonlinear objectives, subject to multiple complex constraints. Solving such optimization problems requires…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Xin-She Yang

This paper focuses on the problem of evolving Boolean functions of odd sizes with high nonlinearity, a property of cryptographic relevance. Despite its simple formulation, this problem turns out to be remarkably difficult. We perform a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Claude Carlet , Marko Đurasevic , Domagoj Jakobovic , Stjepan Picek , Luca Mariot

Death has long been overlooked in evolutionary algorithms. Recent research has shown that death (when applied properly) can benefit the overall fitness of a population and can outperform sub-sections of a population that are "immortal" when…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Micah Burkhardt , Roman V. Yampolskiy

Genetic algorithms are a widely used method in chemometrics for extracting variable subsets with high prediction power. Most fitness measures used by these genetic algorithms are based on the ordinary least-squares fit of the resulting…

Computation · Statistics 2017-11-21 David Kepplinger , Peter Filzmoser , Kurt Varmuza

Evolutionary algorithms, inspired by natural evolution, aim to optimize difficult objective functions without computing derivatives. Here we detail the relationship between population genetics and evolutionary optimization and formulate a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-19 Jakub Otwinowski , Colin LaMont

Privacy computing involves the extensive exchange and processing of encrypted data. For the parties involved in these interactions, how to determine the consistency of exchanged data without accessing the original data, ensuring tamper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Huang Neng

This work discusses single-objective constrained genetic algorithm with floating-point, integer, binary and permutation representation. Floating-point genetic algorithm tuning with use of test functions is done and leads to a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Tomasz Tarkowski

An evolutionary search space can be smoothly transformed via a suitable change of basis; however, it can be difficult to determine an appropriate basis. In this paper, a method is proposed to select an optimum basis can be used to simplify…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Junghwan Lee , Yong-Hyuk Kim

The electroencephalographic (EEG) signals provide highly informative data on brain activities and functions. However, their heterogeneity and high dimensionality may represent an obstacle for their interpretation. The introduction of a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Aurora Saibene , Francesca Gasparini