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Hybrid metaheuristics are powerful techniques for solving difficult optimization problems that exploit the strengths of different approaches in a single implementation. For algorithm designers, however, creating hybrid metaheuristic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Christian Camacho-Villalón , Marco Dorigo , Thomas Stützle

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are population-based metaheuristics, originally inspired by aspects of natural evolution. Modern varieties incorporate a broad mixture of search mechanisms, and tend to blend inspiration from nature with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 David W. Corne , Michael A. Lones

This paper presents a novel population-based metaheuristic, Indian Wedding System Optimization (IWSO), inspired by the socio-cultural dynamics of traditional Indian weddings. IWSO models the matchmaking process driven by collaboration among…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Deepika Saxena , Kishu Gupta , Jitendra Kumar , Jatinder Kumar , Sakshi Patni , Vinaytosh Mishra , Niharika Singh , Ashutosh Kumar Singh

Recommendation systems face challenges in dynamically adapting to evolving user preferences and interactions within complex social networks. Traditional approaches often fail to account for the intricate interactions within cyber-social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Abdelsadeq Elfergany , Ammar Adl , Mohammed Kayed

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into wireless communication systems has emerged as a transformative approach, promising cost-efficient connectivity. This paper addresses the optimization of the dynamic time-splitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Trinh Van Chien , Nguyen Minh Quan , Oh-Soon Shin , Van-Dinh Nguyen

Population-based metaheuristic algorithms have received significant attention in global optimisation. Human Mental Search (HMS) is a relatively recent population-based metaheuristic that has been shown to work well in comparison to other…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ehsan Bojnordi , Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad , Gerald Schaefer , Iakov Korovin

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is gaining a lot of popularity in artificial intelligence, where the natural behavior of animals and insects is observed and translated into computer algorithms called swarm computing to solve real-world problems.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Chandrashekar Muniyappa , Eunjin Kim

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

The human nervous system utilizes synaptic plasticity to solve optimization problems. Previous studies have tried to add the plasticity factor to the training process of artificial neural networks, but most of those models require complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Amir Valizadeh

Despite being among the most common psychological disorders, anxiety-related conditions are still primarily identified through subjective assessments, such as clinical interviews and self-evaluation questionnaires. These conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mohammadreza Amiri , Monireh Hosseini

We provide brief notes on a particle swarm-optimisation approach to constraining the properties of a stochastic gravitational-wave background in the first International Pulsar Timing Array data-challenge. The technique employs many…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-15 Stephen R. Taylor , Jonathan R. Gair , L. Lentati

Learning to optimize has emerged as a powerful framework for various optimization and machine learning tasks. Current such "meta-optimizers" often learn in the space of continuous optimization algorithms that are point-based and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Yue Cao , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

Swarm robotic search is concerned with searching targets in unknown environments (e.g., for search and rescue or hazard localization), using a large number of collaborating simple mobile robots. In such applications, decentralized swarm…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Payam Ghassemi , Souma Chowdhury

Emergent cooperative functionality in active matter systems plays a crucial role in various applications of active swarms, ranging from pollutant foraging and collective threat detection to tissue embolization. In nature, animals like bats…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-26 Alexander Ziepke , Ivan Maryshev , Igor S. Aranson , Erwin Frey

Most metaheuristic algorithms rely on a few searched solutions to guide later searches during the convergence process for a simple reason: the limited computing resource of a computer makes it impossible to retain all the searched…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Chun-Wei Tsai , Yi-Cheng Yang , Tzu-Chieh Tang , Che-Wei Hsu

We consider global non-convex optimisation problems under uncertainty. In this setting, it is not possible to implement a desired solution exactly. Instead, any other solution within some distance to the intended solution may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Martin Hughes , Marc Goerigk , Trivikram Dokka

In order to overcome difficult dynamic optimization and environment extrema tracking problems, We propose a Self-Regulated Swarm (SRS) algorithm which hybridizes the advantageous characteristics of Swarm Intelligence as the emergence of a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vitorino Ramos , Carlos Fernandes , Agostinho C. Rosa

Swarm based optimization algorithms have demonstrated remarkable success in solving complex optimization problems. However, their widespread adoption remains sceptical due to limited transparency in how different algorithmic components…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Nitin Gupta , Bapi Dutta , Anupam Yadav

Classification accuracy provided by a machine learning model depends a lot on the feature set used in the learning process. Feature Selection (FS) is an important and challenging pre-processing technique which helps to identify only the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Ritam Guha , Manosij Ghosh , Shyok Mutsuddi , Ram Sarkar , Seyedali Mirjalili

This paper preliminarily investigates the duality between flow matching in generative models and particle swarm optimization (PSO) in evolutionary computation. Through theoretical analysis, we reveal the intrinsic connections between these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kaichen Ouyang