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This paper shows how the Bayesian network paradigm can be used in order to solve combinatorial optimization problems. To do it some methods of structure learning from data and simulation of Bayesian networks are inserted inside Estimation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Pedro Larrañaga , Ramon Etxeberria , Jose A. Lozano , Jose M. Pena

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have been successfully applied to a range of challenging control tasks. However, these methods typically suffer from three core difficulties: temporal credit assignment with sparse rewards, lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Shauharda Khadka , Kagan Tumer

The compact genetic algorithm is an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for binary optimisation problems. Unlike the standard Genetic Algorithm, no cross-over or mutation is involved. Instead, the compact Genetic Algorithm uses a virtual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Simon M. Lucas , Jialin Liu , Diego Pérez-Liébana

In this paper, the issue of adapting probabilities for Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) search operators is revisited. A framework is devised for distinguishing between measurements of performance and the interpretation of those measurements for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-07-06 James M. Whitacre , Tuan Q. Pham , Ruhul A. Sarker

This paper develops Penguin search Optimisation Algorithm (PeSOA), a new metaheuristic algorithm which is inspired by the foraging behaviours of penguins. A population of penguins located in the solution space of the given search and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Youcef Gheraibia , Abdelouahab Moussaoui , Peng-Yeng Yin , Yiannis Papadopoulos , Smaine Maazouzi

We propose a new distributed optimization algorithm for solving a class of constrained optimization problems in which (a) the objective function is separable (i.e., the sum of local objective functions of agents), (b) the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Van Sy Mai , Richard J. La , Tao Zhang , Abdella Battou

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) offer a promising generative approach for combinatorial optimization, yet they often lack the robust exploration capabilities of traditional metaheuristics like evolutionary algorithms (EAs). We propose a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Joan Salvà Soler , Günther R. Raidl

Expensive optimization problems (EOPs) are prevalent in real-world applications, where the evaluation of a single solution requires a significant amount of resources. In our study of surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Hao Hao , Xiaoqun Zhang , Aimin Zhou

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are a kind of nature-inspired general-purpose optimization algorithm, and have shown empirically good performance in solving various real-word optimization problems. During the past two decades, promising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chao Qian , Yang Yu , Ke Tang , Xin Yao , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have become essential tools for solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs), making their running time analysis crucial for assessing algorithmic efficiency and guiding practical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Han Huang , Tianyu Wang , Chaoda Peng , Tongli He , Zhifeng Hao

Multi-modal optimization involves identifying multiple global and local optima of a function, offering valuable insights into diverse optimal solutions within the search space. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) excel at finding multiple…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dikshit Chauhan , Shivani , Donghwi Jung , Anupam Yadav

In the evolutionary computation research community, the performance of most evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depends strongly on their implemented coordinate system. However, the commonly used coordinate system is fixed and not well suited for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Zhi-Zhong Liu , Yong Wang , Shengxiang Yang , Ke Tang

Creating diverse sets of high quality solutions has become an important problem in recent years. Previous works on diverse solutions problems consider solutions' objective quality and diversity where one is regarded as the optimization goal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Anh Viet Do , Mingyu Guo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Differential evolution (DE) has competitive performance on constrained optimization problems (COPs), which targets at searching for global optimal solution without violating the constraints. Generally, researchers pay more attention on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Yuan Fu , Hu Wang , Meng-Zhu Yang

Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) provide a distribution - based approach for optimization which adapts its probability distribution during the run of the algorithm. We contribute to the theoretical understanding of EDAs and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tobias Friedrich , Timo Kötzing , Frank Neumann , Aishwarya Radhakrishnan

Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is an important solution concept in game theory which has been applied frequently to biological models. Informally an ESS is a strategy that if followed by the population cannot be taken over by a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Sam Ganzfried

Training networks consisting of biophysically accurate neuron models could allow for new insights into how brain circuits can organize and solve tasks. We begin by analyzing the extent to which the central algorithm for neural network…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-22 James Hazelden , Yuhan Helena Liu , Eli Shlizerman , Eric Shea-Brown

In this paper is proposed a new heuristic approach belonging to the field of evolutionary Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs). EDAs builds a probability model and a set of solutions is sampled from the model which characterizes the…

We propose a novel surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for solving expensive combinatorial optimization problems. We integrate a surrogate model, which is used for fitness value estimation, into a state-of-the-art P3-like variant of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

One of the major distinguishing features of the dynamic multiobjective optimization problems (DMOPs) is the optimization objectives will change over time, thus tracking the varying Pareto-optimal front becomes a challenge. One of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Min Jiang , Zhongqiang Huang , Liming Qiu , Wenzhen Huang , Gary G. Yen