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Now-a-days, it is important to find out solutions of Multi-Objective Optimization Problems (MOPs). Evolutionary Strategy helps to solve such real world problems efficiently and quickly. But sequential Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Md. Asadul Islam , G. M. Mashrur-E-Elahi , M. M. A. Hashem

Achieving better exploitation and exploration capabilities (EEC) have always been an important yet challenging issue in the design of evolutionary optimization algorithm (EOA). The difficulties lie in obtaining a good balance in EEC, which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Sheng Xin Zhang , Wing Shing Chan , Zi Kang Peng , Shao Yong Zheng , Kit Sang Tang

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

Neural Architecture Search has achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of tasks, out-performing human-designed networks. However, many assumptions, that require human definition, related with the problems being solved or the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Vasco Lopes , Luís A. Alexandre

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieves significant progress in many computer vision tasks. While many methods have been proposed to improve the efficiency of NAS, the search progress is still laborious because training and evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Dongzhan Zhou , Xinchi Zhou , Wenwei Zhang , Chen Change Loy , Shuai Yi , Xuesen Zhang , Wanli Ouyang

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

Evolutionary algorithms (EA) have been widely accepted as efficient solvers for complex real world optimization problems, including engineering optimization. However, real world optimization problems often involve uncertain environment…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Maumita Bhattacharya , R. Islam , A. Mahmood

Many optimization problems in science and engineering are highly nonlinear, and thus require sophisticated optimization techniques to solve. Traditional techniques such as gradient-based algorithms are mostly local search methods, and often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Xin-She Yang , Suash Deb , Sudhanshu K Mishra

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

The search ability of an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) depends on the variation among the individuals in the population. Maintaining an optimal level of diversity in the EA population is imperative to ensure that progress of the EA search is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Maumita Bhattacharya

Many optimization tasks have to be handled in noisy environments, where we cannot obtain the exact evaluation of a solution but only a noisy one. For noisy optimization tasks, evolutionary algorithms (EAs), a kind of stochastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Chao Qian , Yang Yu , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Many global optimization algorithms of the memetic variety rely on some form of stochastic search, and yet they often lack a sound probabilistic basis. Without a recourse to the powerful tools of stochastic calculus, treading the fine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Rajdeep Dutta , T Venkatesh Varma , Saikat Sarkar , Mariya Mamajiwala , Noor Awad , Senthilnath Jayavelu , Debasish Roy

Evolutionary algorithms (EA) based neural architecture search (NAS) involves evaluating each architecture by training it from scratch, which is extremely time-consuming. This can be reduced by using a supernet for estimating the fitness of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Nilotpal Sinha , Kuan-Wen Chen

The adoption of probabilistic models for the best individuals found so far is a powerful approach for evolutionary computation. Increasingly more complex models have been used by estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs), which often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-10-16 Leonardo Emmendorfer , Aurora Pozo

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are population-based metaheuristics, originally inspired by aspects of natural evolution. Modern varieties incorporate a broad mixture of search mechanisms, and tend to blend inspiration from nature with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 David W. Corne , Michael A. Lones

A new model for evolving Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is proposed in this paper. The model is based on the Multi Expression Programming (MEP) technique. Each MEP chromosome encodes an evolutionary pattern that is repeatedly used for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Mihai Oltean

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, generating high-quality text that balances coherence, diversity, and relevance remains challenging. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jaydip Sen , Rohit Pandey , Hetvi Waghela

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

In the field of artificial intelligence, real parameter single objective optimization is an important direction. Both the Differential Evolution (DE) and the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) demonstrate good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mingxuan Du , Tingzhang Luo , Ziyang Wang , Chengjun Li

Evolutionary computation (EC)-based neural architecture search (NAS) has achieved remarkable performance in the automatic design of neural architectures. However, the high computational cost associated with evaluating searched architectures…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yangyang Li , Guanlong Liu , Ronghua Shang , Licheng Jiao