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Differential Evolution (DE) is a highly successful population based global optimisation algorithm, commonly used for solving numerical optimisation problems. However, as the complexity of the objective function increases, the wall-clock…
Differential Evolution (DE) is a renowned optimization stratagem that can easily solve nonlinear and comprehensive problems. DE is a well known and uncomplicated population based probabilistic approach for comprehensive optimization. It has…
Differential evolution(DE) is a conventional algorithm with fast convergence speed. However, DE may be trapped in local optimal solution easily. Many researchers devote themselves to improving DE. In our previously work, whale swarm…
Grid computing is the recently growing area of computing that share data, storage, computing across geographically dispersed area. This paper proposes a novel fuzzy approach using Differential Evolution (DE) for scheduling jobs on…
Differential Evolution (DE) is a widely used evolutionary algorithm for black-box optimization problems. However, in modern DE implementations, a major challenge lies in the limited population diversity caused by the fixed population size…
Differential evolution possesses a multitude of various strategies for generating new trial solutions. Unfortunately, the best strategy is not known in advance. Moreover, this strategy usually depends on the problem to be solved. This paper…
Neural architecture search (NAS) methods rely on a search strategy for deciding which architectures to evaluate next and a performance estimation strategy for assessing their performance (e.g., using full evaluations, multi-fidelity…
New contributions in the field of iterative optimisation heuristics are often made in an iterative manner. Novel algorithmic ideas are not proposed in isolation, but usually as an extension of a preexisting algorithm. Although these…
This paper thoroughly investigates a range of popular DE configurations to identify components responsible for the emergence of structural bias - recently identified tendency of the algorithm to prefer some regions of the search space for…
Optimal experimental design is an essential subfield of statistics that maximizes the chances of experimental success. The D- and A-optimal design is a very challenging problem in the field of optimal design, namely minimizing the…
Automated hyperparameter tuning aspires to facilitate the application of machine learning for non-experts. In the literature, different optimization approaches are applied for that purpose. This paper investigates the performance of…
Differential evolution (DE) is an effective global evolutionary optimization algorithm using to solve global optimization problems mainly in a continuous domain. In this field, researchers pay more attention to improving the capability of…
Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has proven to be remarkably effective in optimizing deep neural networks that employ ever-larger numbers of parameters. Yet, improving the efficiency of large-scale optimization remains a vital and highly…
Heuristic optimisation algorithms are in high demand due to the overwhelming amount of complex optimisation problems that need to be solved. The complexity of these problems is well beyond the boundaries of applicability of exact…
We conduct a first fundamental analysis of the working principles of binary differential evolution (BDE), an optimization heuristic for binary decision variables that was derived by Gong and Tuson (2007) from the very successful classic…
A number of popular transfer learning methods rely on grid search to select regularization hyperparameters that control over-fitting. This grid search requirement has several key disadvantages: the search is computationally expensive,…
One of the most important factors that contribute to the success of a machine learning model is a good training objective. Training objective crucially influences the model's performance and generalization capabilities. This paper…
It is common practice to discretize continuous defect counts into defective and non-defective classes and use them as a target variable when building defect classifiers (discretized classifiers). However, this discretization of continuous…
Search-based test-generation algorithms have countless configuration options. Users rarely adjust these options and usually stick to the default values, which may not lead to the best possible results. Tuning an algorithm's hyperparameters…
As a cornerstone in the Evolutionary Computation (EC) domain, Differential Evolution (DE) is known for its simplicity and effectiveness in handling challenging black-box optimization problems. While the advantages of DE are well-recognized,…