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Gene expression programming is an evolutionary optimization algorithm with the potential to generate interpretable and easily implementable equations for regression problems. Despite knowledge gained from previous optimizations being…

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Identifying similar documents within extensive volumes of data poses a significant challenge. To tackle this issue, researchers have developed a variety of effective distributed computing techniques. With the advancement of computing power…

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There has been a growing interest in the evolutionary computation community to compute a diverse set of high-quality solutions for a given optimisation problem. This can provide the practitioners with invaluable information about the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Adel Nikfarjam , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Applying the concepts and formalisms from Evolutionary Game Theory to the data regime, the fundamental paradigms of Evolutionary Data Theory are introduced. Interpreting data in matrix form as evolutionary entities, input data is mapped to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Philipp Wissgott

Over the past 30 years many researchers in the field of evolutionary computation have put a lot of effort to introduce various approaches for solving hard problems. Most of these problems have been inspired by major industries so that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Mohammad Reza Bonyadi , Zbigniew Michalewicz , Frank Neumann , Markus Wagner

Multi-task learning uses auxiliary data or knowledge from relevant tasks to facilitate the learning in a new task. Multi-task optimization applies multi-task learning to optimization to study how to effectively and efficiently tackle…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Dongrui Wu , Xianfeng Tan

Evolutionary computing (EC) is widely used in dealing with combinatorial optimization problems (COP). Traditional EC methods can only solve a single task in a single run, while real-life scenarios often need to solve multiple COPs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Haoyuan Lv , Ruochen Liu

Multitasking optimization is an incipient research area which is lately gaining a notable research momentum. Unlike traditional optimization paradigm that focuses on solving a single task at a time, multitasking addresses how multiple…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Eneko Osaba , Aritz D. Martinez , Jesus L. Lobo , Javier Del Ser , Francisco Herrera

Evolutionary Robotics offers the possibility to design robots to solve a specific task automatically by optimizing their morphology and control together. However, this co-optimization of body and control is challenging, because controllers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 K. Ege de Bruin , Kyrre Glette , Kai Olav Ellefsen

The performance of different mutation operators is usually evaluated in conjunc-tion with specific parameter settings of genetic algorithms and target problems. Most studies focus on the classical genetic algorithm with different parameters…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Chun Liu , Andreas Kroll

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

Multitask learning, i.e. learning several tasks at once with the same neural network, can improve performance in each of the tasks. Designing deep neural network architectures for multitask learning is a challenge: There are many ways to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Jason Liang , Elliot Meyerson , Risto Miikkulainen

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

Evolutionary computation techniques have mostly been used to solve various optimization and learning problems successfully. Evolutionary algorithm is more effective to gain optimal solution(s) to solve complex problems than traditional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Moslema Jahan , M. M. A. Hashem , Gazi Abdullah Shahriar

In Evolutionary Robotics a population of solutions is evolved to optimize robots that solve a given task. However, in traditional Evolutionary Algorithms, the population of solutions tends to converge to local optima when the problem is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Jørgen Nordmoen , Frank Veenstra , Kai Olav Ellefsen , Kyrre Glette

Evolutionary algorithms, inspired by natural evolution, aim to optimize difficult objective functions without computing derivatives. Here we detail the relationship between population genetics and evolutionary optimization and formulate a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-19 Jakub Otwinowski , Colin LaMont

Here we propose an evolutionary algorithm that self modifies its operators at the same time that candidate solutions are evolved. This tackles convergence and lack of diversity issues, leading to better solutions. Operators are represented…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Andres Felipe Cruz Salinas , Jonatan Gomez Perdomo

We introduce Genetic AI, a novel method for multi-objective optimization without external parameters or predefined weights. The method can be applied to all problems that can be formulated in matrix form and allows for a data-less training…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Philipp Wissgott

Knowledge transfer-based evolutionary optimization has garnered significant attention, such as in multi-task evolutionary optimization (MTEO), which aims to solve complex problems by simultaneously optimizing multiple tasks. While this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jie Zhao , Kang Hao Cheong , Yaochu Jin

Evolutionary algorithms are metaheuristic techniques that derive inspiration from the natural process of evolution. They can efficiently solve (generate acceptable quality of solution in reasonable time) complex optimization (NP-Hard)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Anupriya Gogna , Akash Tayal