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Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are population-based general-purpose optimization algorithms, and have been successfully applied in various real-world optimization tasks. However, previous theoretical studies often employ EAs with only a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Chao Qian , Yang Yu , Zhi-Hua Zhou

It has been observed that some working principles of evolutionary algorithms, in particular, the influence of the parameters, cannot be understood from results on the asymptotic order of the runtime, but only from more precise results. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Benjamin Doerr , Carola Doerr , Jing Yang

The analysis of randomized search heuristics on classes of functions is fundamental for the understanding of the underlying stochastic process and the development of suitable proof techniques. Recently, remarkable progress has been made in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-16 Carsten Witt

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

Evolutionary neural architecture search (ENAS) is a key part of evolutionary machine learning, which commonly utilizes evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to automatically design high-performing deep neural architectures. During past years,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zeqiong Lv , Chao Qian , Yun Liu , Jiahao Fan , Yanan Sun

We study unbiased $(1+1)$ evolutionary algorithms on linear functions with an unknown number $n$ of bits with non-zero weight. Static algorithms achieve an optimal runtime of $O(n (\ln n)^{2+\epsilon})$, however, it remained unclear whether…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Hafsteinn Einarsson , Marcelo Matheus Gauy , Johannes Lengler , Florian Meier , Asier Mujika , Angelika Steger , Felix Weissenberger

We investigate the mutation-selection dynamics for an evolutionary computation model based on Turing Machines that we introduced in a previous article. The use of Turing Machines allows for very simple mechanisms of code growth and code…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-17 Fabio Musso , Giovanni Feverati

Bit-flip mutation is a common mutation operator for evolutionary algorithms applied to optimize functions over binary strings. In this paper, we develop results from the theory of landscapes and Krawtchouk polynomials to exactly compute the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Francisco Chicano , Andrew M. Sutton , L. Darrell Whitley , Enrique Alba

Optimization problem, nowadays, have more application in all major but they have problem in computation. Calculation of the optimum point in the spaces with the above dimensions is very time consuming. In this paper, there is presented a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-24 Masoumeh Vali

In evolutionary dynamics, a key measure of a mutant trait's success is the probability that it takes over the population given some initial mutant-appearance distribution. This "fixation probability" is difficult to compute in general, as…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-18 Alex McAvoy , Benjamin Allen

Evolutionary computation offers a variety of tools to solve complex real-world optimization problems. However, research often focuses on smaller, simplified problems and optimization algorithms that sometimes miss expectations in real-world…

The design of binary error-correcting codes is a challenging optimization problem with several applications in telecommunications and storage, which has also been addressed with metaheuristic techniques and evolutionary algorithms. Still,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Claude Carlet , Luca Mariot , Luca Manzoni , Stjepan Picek

In the real world, there exist a class of optimization problems that multiple (local) optimal solutions in the solution space correspond to a single point in the objective space. In this paper, we theoretically show that for such multimodal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Shengjie Ren , Zhijia Qiu , Chao Bian , Miqing Li , Chao Qian

In this work we introduce an implementation for which machine learning techniques helped improve the overall performance of an evolutionary algorithm for an optimization problem, namely a variation of robust minimum-cost path in graphs. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Ricardo Di Pasquale , Javier Marenco

We propose a novel evolutionary algorithm on bit vectors which derives from the principles of information theory. The information-theoretic evolutionary algorithm (it-EA) iteratively updates a search distribution with two parameters, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Arnaud Berny

Evolutionary computation has shown its superiority in dynamic optimization, but for the (dynamic) time-linkage problems, some theoretical studies have revealed the possible weakness of evolutionary computation. Since the theoretically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Weijie Zheng , Xin Yao

The compact Genetic Algorithm (cGA), parameterized by its hypothetical population size $K$, offers a low-memory alternative to evolving a large offspring population of solutions. It evolves a probability distribution, biasing it towards…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Cella Florescu , Marc Kaufmann , Johannes Lengler , Ulysse Schaller

In scenarios where multiple decision-makers operate within a common decision space, each focusing on their own multi-objective optimization problem (e.g., bargaining games), the problem can be modeled as a multi-party multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuetong Sun , Peilan Xu , Wenjian Luo

The performance of deep neural networks, such as Deep Belief Networks formed by Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs), strongly depends on their training, which is the process of adjusting their parameters. This process can be posed as an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-16 S. Ivvan Valdez , Alfonso Rojas-Domínguez

Recent research in the runtime analysis of estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) has focused on univariate EDAs for multi-valued decision variables. In particular, the runtime of the multi-valued cGA (r-cGA) and UMDA on multi-valued…

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