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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial base stations (ABSs) to provide wireless connectivity for ground users (GUs) in various emergency scenarios. However, it is a NP-hard problem with exponential complexity in $M$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiangbin Lyu , Xu Chen , Jiefeng Zhang , Liqun Fu

How to simultaneously locate multiple global peaks and achieve certain accuracy on the found peaks are two key challenges in solving multimodal optimization problems (MMOPs). In this paper, a landscape-aware differential evolution (LADE)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Guo-Yun Lin , Zong-Gan Chen , Chuanbin Liu , Yuncheng Jiang , Sam Kwong , Jun Zhang , Zhi-Hui Zhan

In this work, we explore modeling change points in time-series data using neural stochastic differential equations (neural SDEs). We propose a novel model formulation and training procedure based on the variational autoencoder (VAE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yousef El-Laham , Zhongchang Sun , Haibei Zhu , Tucker Balch , Svitlana Vyetrenko

This paper presents a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) based system for reasoning about high speed motion. As a representative scenario, we consider the case of a robot at rest reacting to a small, fast approaching object at speeds higher than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Anthony Bisulco , Fernando Cladera Ojeda , Volkan Isler , Daniel D. Lee

Many real-world control and classification tasks involve a large number of features. When artificial neural networks (ANNs) are used for modeling these tasks, the network architectures tend to be large. Neuroevolution is an effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Anil Yaman , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Giovanni Iacca , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Vertebrate retinas are highly-efficient in processing trivial visual tasks such as detecting moving objects, yet a complex challenges for modern computers. In vertebrates, the detection of object motion is performed by specialised retinal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Pedro Machado , Joao Filipe Ferreira , Andreas Oikonomou , T. M. McGinnity

This research presents an online path planner for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that can handle dynamic obstacles and UAV motion constraints, including maximum curvature and desired orientations. Our proposed planner uses a NURBS path…

Differential Evolution (DE) is one of the most successful and powerful evolutionary algorithms for global optimization problem. The most important operator in this algorithm is mutation operator which parents are selected randomly to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-22 H. Sharifi Noghabi , H. Rajabi Mashhadi , K. Shojaei

The Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) has many attributes that allow it to be well suited to the task for UAV Detection. This paper is the first to look at exploiting the features of an Event Camera solely for Drone Detection while combining it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-30 Paul Kirkland

Optimizer is an essential component for the success of deep learning, which guides the neural network to update the parameters according to the loss on the training set. SGD and Adam are two classical and effective optimizers on which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yineng Chen , Zuchao Li , Lefei Zhang , Bo Du , Hai Zhao

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Pan Zibin

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Sandeep Kumar , Vivek Kumar Sharma , Rajani Kumari

Neuromorphic computing is a brainlike information processing paradigm that requires adaptive learning mechanisms. A spiking neuro-evolutionary system is used for this purpose; plastic resistive memories are implemented as synapses in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Gerard David Howard , Larry Bull , Ben de Lacy Costello , Andrew Adamatzky , Ella Gale

Multispectral object detection is an important application for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, it faces several challenges. First, low-light RGB images weaken the multispectral fusion due to details loss. Second, the interference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shucong Li , Zhenyu Liu , Zijie Hong , Zhiheng Zhou , Xianghai Cao

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Haozhen Dong , Liang Gao , Xinyu Li , Haoran Zhong , Bing Zeng

In this work, we propose learnable Bernoulli dropout (LBD), a new model-agnostic dropout scheme that considers the dropout rates as parameters jointly optimized with other model parameters. By probabilistic modeling of Bernoulli dropout,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Shahin Boluki , Randy Ardywibowo , Siamak Zamani Dadaneh , Mingyuan Zhou , Xiaoning Qian

Modelling deformation of anatomical objects observed in medical images can help describe disease progression patterns and variations in anatomy across populations. We apply a stochastic generalisation of the Large Deformation Diffeomorphic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Line Kühnel , Alexis Arnaudon , Tom Fletcher , Stefan Sommer

We investigate the behaviour space of meta-heuristic optimisation algorithms automatically generated by Large Language Model driven algorithm discovery methods. Using the Large Language Evolutionary Algorithm (LLaMEA) framework with a GPT…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Niki van Stein , Haoran Yin , Anna V. Kononova , Thomas Bäck , Gabriela Ochoa

The expansion of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and their integration into autonomous agentic workflows has introduced a non-stationary attack surface. Empirical observations indicate that adversaries employ progressive,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Doohee You

Flying insects are capable of vision-based navigation in cluttered environments, reliably avoiding obstacles through fast and agile maneuvers, while being very efficient in the processing of visual stimuli. Meanwhile, autonomous micro air…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-18 J. J. Hagenaars , F. Paredes-Vallés , S. M. Bohté , G. C. H. E. de Croon