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A key challenge to make effective use of evolutionary algorithms is to choose appropriate settings for their parameters. However, the appropriate parameter setting generally depends on the structure of the optimisation problem, which is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Brendan Case , Per Kristian Lehre

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…

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Diversity is an important factor in evolutionary algorithms to prevent premature convergence towards a single local optimum. In order to maintain diversity throughout the process of evolution, various means exist in literature. We analyze…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Thomas Gabor , Lenz Belzner , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Evolutionary optimization is a generic population-based metaheuristic that can be adapted to solve a wide variety of optimization problems and has proven very effective for combinatorial optimization problems. However, the potential of this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Saaduddin Mahmud , Moumita Choudhury , Md. Mosaddek Khan , Long Tran-Thanh , Nicholas R. Jennings

High-dimensional portfolio optimization faces significant computational challenges under complex constraints, with traditional optimization methods struggling to balance convergence speed and global exploration capability. To address this,…

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Diversification in a set of solutions has become a hot research topic in the evolutionary computation community. It has been proven beneficial for optimisation problems in several ways, such as computing a diverse set of high-quality…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Adel Nikfarjam , Amirhossein Moosavi , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is a powerful computational technique for finding the maximum likelihood estimates for parametric models when the data are not fully observed. The EM is best suited for situations where the…

Computation · Statistics 2018-05-14 Chanseok Park

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

Predicting user positive response (e.g., purchases and clicks) probability is a critical task in Web applications. To identify predictive features from raw data, the state-of-the-art extreme deep factorization machine model (xDeepFM)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Ling Chen , Hongyu Shi

Multi-objective discrete optimization problems, such as molecular design, pose significant challenges due to their vast and unstructured combinatorial spaces. Traditional evolutionary algorithms often get trapped in local optima, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Nian Ran , Zhongzheng Li , Yue Wang , Qingsong Ran , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Shikun Feng , Richard Allmendinger , Xiaoguang Zhao

The optimization of dynamic problems is both widespread and difficult. When conducting dynamic optimization, a balance between reinitialization and computational expense has to be found. There are multiple approaches to this. In parallel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Ronald Hochreiter , Christoph Waldhauser

Recent theoretical research has shown that self-adjusting and self-adaptive mechanisms can provably outperform static settings in evolutionary algorithms for binary search spaces. However, the vast majority of these studies focuses on…

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Population-based metaheuristic algorithms are powerful tools in the design of neutron scattering instruments and the use of these types of algorithms for this purpose is becoming more and more commonplace. Today there exists a wide range of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 D. D. DiJulio , H. Björgvinsdóttir , C. Zendler , P. M. Bentley

Simultaneous deterministic and weakly stochastic dynamics of multiple populations described by a large system of ODE's is considered in the phase space of population sizes and ODE's parameters. We show that many practically interesting…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Neil V. Budko , Fred J. Vermolen

he greatest weakness of evolutionary algorithms, widely used today, is the premature convergence due to the loss of population diversity over generations. To overcome this problem, several algorithms have been proposed, such as the…

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Motion estimation is one of the major problems in developing video coding applications. Among all motion estimation approaches, Block matching (BM) algorithms are the most popular methods due to their effectiveness and simplicity for both…

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This paper presents the main characteristics of the evolutionary optimization code named EOS, Evolutionary Optimization at Sapienza, and its successful application to challenging, real-world space trajectory optimization problems. EOS is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Lorenzo Federici , Boris Benedikter , Alessandro Zavoli

Many real-world problems are categorized as large-scale problems, and metaheuristic algorithms as an alternative method to solve large-scale problem; they need the evaluation of many candidate solutions to tackle them prior to their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Shahryar Rahnamayan , Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad

Distributed stochastic optimization algorithms can simultaneously process large-scale datasets, significantly accelerating model training. However, their effectiveness is often hindered by the sparsity of distributed networks and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yuchen Hu , Xi Chen , Weidong Liu , Xiaojun Mao

LLM-driven evolutionary systems have shown promise for automated science discovery, yet existing approaches such as AlphaEvolve rely on full-code histories that are context-inefficient and potentially provide weak evolutionary guidance. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jiachen Jiang , Tianyu Ding , Zhihui Zhu