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The interplay between mutation and selection plays a fundamental role in the behaviour of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). However, this interplay is still not completely understood. This paper presents a rigorous runtime analysis of a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Per Kristian Lehre , Xin Yao

Intelligent techniques are urged to achieve automatic allocation of the computing resource in Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN), to save computing resource, increase utilization rate of them and decrease the delay. However, the existing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Gan Ruan , Leandro L. Minku , Zhao Xu , Xin Yao

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are general-purpose problem solvers that usually perform an unbiased search. This is reasonable and desirable in a black-box scenario. For combinatorial optimization problems, often more knowledge about the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Vahid Roostapour , Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann

An evolutionary algorithm (EA) is developed as an alternative to the EM algorithm for parameter estimation in model-based clustering. This EA facilitates a different search of the fitness landscape, i.e., the likelihood surface, utilizing…

Computation · Statistics 2020-06-09 Sharon M. McNicholas , Paul D. McNicholas , Daniel A. Ashlock

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 (EAs), a large class of general purpose optimization algorithms inspired from the natural phenomena, are widely used in various industrial optimizations and often show excellent performance. This paper presents an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Yang Yu , Hong Qian

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) employ random or simplistic selection methods, limiting their exploration of solution spaces and convergence to optimal solutions. The randomness in performing crossover or mutations may limit the model's…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Shady Ali , Mahmoud Ashraf , Seif Hegazy , Fatty Salem , Hoda Mokhtar , Mohamed Medhat Gaber , Mohamed Taher Alrefaie

Bilevel optimization poses a significant computational challenge due to its nested structure, where each upper-level candidate solution requires solving a corresponding lower-level problem. While evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Dejun Xu , Jijia Chen , Gary G. Yen , Min Jiang

Niching enables a genetic algorithm (GA) to maintain diversity in a population. It is particularly useful when the problem has multiple optima where the aim is to find all or as many as possible of these optima. When the fitness landscape…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 K. Sastry , H. A. Abbass , D. E. Goldberg

The runtime of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depends critically on their parameter settings, which are often problem-specific. Automated schemes for parameter tuning have been developed to alleviate the high costs of manual parameter…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Duc-Cuong Dang , Per Kristian Lehre

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

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) simulate natural selection but have two main limitations: (1) they rarely update individuals based on global correlations, limiting comprehensive learning; (2) they struggle with balancing exploration and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Kaichen Ouyang , Zong Ke , Shengwei Fu , Lingjie Liu , Puning Zhao , Dayu Hu

In this paper, we consider a fitness-level model of a non-elitist mutation-only evolutionary algorithm (EA) with tournament selection. The model provides upper and lower bounds for the expected proportion of the individuals with fitness…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Anton Eremeev

The lack of diversity in a genetic algorithm's population may lead to a bad performance of the genetic operators since there is not an equilibrium between exploration and exploitation. In those cases, genetic algorithms present a fast and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Andrés Herrera-Poyatos , Francisco Herrera

In the area of evolutionary computation the calculation of diverse sets of high-quality solutions to a given optimization problem has gained momentum in recent years under the term evolutionary diversity optimization. Theoretical insights…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is widely used in task-oriented dialogue systems to optimize dialogue policy, but it struggles to balance exploration and exploitation due to the high dimensionality of state and action spaces. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yangyang Zhao , Ben Niu , Libo Qin , Shihan Wang

Population diversity is crucial in evolutionary algorithms as it helps with global exploration and facilitates the use of crossover. Despite many runtime analyses showing advantages of population diversity, we have no clear picture of how…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Johannes Lengler , Andre Opris , Dirk Sudholt

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been widely and successfully applied to solve multi-objective optimization problems, due to their nature of population-based search. Population update, a key component in multi-objective EAs (MOEAs), is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Chao Bian , Yawen Zhou , Miqing Li , Chao Qian

This paper explores the enhancement of solution diversity in evolutionary algorithms (EAs) for the maximum matching problem, concentrating on complete bipartite graphs and paths. We adopt binary string encoding for matchings and use Hamming…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jonathan Gadea Harder , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

In this article we provide a comprehensive review of the different evolutionary algorithm techniques used to address multimodal optimization problems, classifying them according to the nature of their approach. On the one hand there are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Noe Casas