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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

We present algorithms for generating small random samples without replacement. We consider two cases. We present an algorithm for sampling a pair of distinct integers, and an algorithm for sampling a triple of distinct integers. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Vincent A. Cicirello

Recent LLM-guided evolutionary search methods have shown that iterative program mutation can discover strong algorithms, but they typically optimize each task independently, even when related tasks share reusable structure. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Halil Alperen Gozeten , Xuechen Zhang , Emrullah Ildiz , Ege Onur Taga , Tara Javidi , Samet Oymak

Most decision tree induction algorithms are based on a greedy top-down recursive partitioning strategy for tree growth. In this paper, we propose several methods for induction of decision trees and their ensembles based on evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Evgeny Dolotov , Nikolai Zolotykh

Algorithms typically come with tunable parameters that have a considerable impact on the computational resources they consume. Too often, practitioners must hand-tune the parameters, a tedious and error-prone task. A recent line of research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Maria-Florina Balcan , Tuomas Sandholm , Ellen Vitercik

We propose a meta-parameter free, off-the-shelf, simple and fast unsupervised feature learning algorithm, which exploits a new way of optimizing for sparsity. Experiments on STL-10 show that the method presents state-of-the-art performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Adriana Romero , Petia Radeva , Carlo Gatta

Various variants of the well known Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) have been proposed recently, which improve the empirical performance of the original algorithm by structural modifications. However, in practice it…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Sander van Rijn , Hao Wang , Matthijs van Leeuwen , Thomas Bäck

In the past few decades, many multiobjective evolutionary optimization algorithms (MOEAs) have been proposed to find a finite set of approximate Pareto solutions for a given problem in a single run, each with its own structure. However, in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xi Lin , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang

The paper contains the concept and the results of research concerning the evolutionary algorithm, identified based on the systems control theory, which was called the Systemically of Evolutionary Algorithm (SAE). Special attention was paid…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Jerzy Tchorzewski , Emil Chyzy

We describe the decomposition of QSO absorption line ensembles applying an evolutionary forward modelling technique. The modelling is optimized using an evolution strategy (ES) based on a novel concept of completely derandomized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Quast , R. Baade , D. Reimers

Large set of linear equations, especially for sparse and structured coefficient (matrix) equations, solutions using classical methods become arduous. And evolutionary algorithms have mostly been used to solve various optimization and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-16 A. R. M. Jalal Uddin Jamali , M. M. A. Hashem , Md. Bazlar Rahman

Real-valued genotypes together with the variation operators, mutation and crossover, constitute some of the fundamental building blocks of Evolutionary Algorithms. Real-valued genotypes are utilized in a broad range of contexts, from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Jørgen Nordmoen , Tønnes Frostad Nygaard , Eivind Samuelsen , Kyrre Glette

Peptide Optimization is a highly complex problem and it takes very long time of computation. This optimization process uses many software applications in a cluster running GNU/Linux Operating System that perform special tasks. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-12-05 Andias Wira-Alam

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are being routinely applied for a variety of optimization tasks, and real-parameter optimization in the presence of constraints is one such important area. During constrained optimization EAs often create…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Nikhil Padhye , Pulkit Mittal , Kalyanmoy Deb

Evolutionary methods are effective tools for obtaining high-quality results when solving hard practical problems. Linkage learning may increase their effectiveness. One of the state-of-the-art methods that employ linkage learning is the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Michal Witold Przewozniczek , Piotr Dziurzanski , Shuai Zhao , Leandro Soares Indrusiak

Over the past decades, more and more methods gain a giant development due to the development of technology. Evolutionary Algorithms are widely used as a heuristic method. However, the budget of computation increases exponentially when the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yangjie Mei , Hao Wang

This paper presents how the most recent improvements made on covariance matrix estimation and model order selection can be applied to the portfolio optimisation problem. The particular case of the Maximum Variety Portfolio is treated but…

Applications · Statistics 2018-04-03 Emmanuelle Jay , Eugénie Terreaux , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez , Frédéric Pascal

Parameter-free algorithms are online learning algorithms that do not require setting learning rates. They achieve optimal regret with respect to the distance between the initial point and any competitor. Yet, parameter-free algorithms do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Keyi Chen , Ashok Cutkosky , Francesco Orabona

Evolution Strategies are inspired in biology and part of a larger research field known as Evolutionary Algorithms. Those strategies perform a random search in the space of admissible functions, aiming to optimize some given objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-12-30 Pedro A. F. Cruz , Delfim F. M. Torres

Genetic Algorithms are introduced as a search method for finding string vacua with viable phenomenological properties. It is shown, by testing them against a class of Free Fermionic models, that they are orders of magnitude more efficient…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Steven Abel , John Rizos