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In evolutionary algorithms, the fitness of a population increases with time by mutating and recombining individuals and by a biased selection of more fit individuals. The right selection pressure is critical in ensuring sufficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marcus Hutter

This paper investigates the use of more than one crossover operator to enhance the performance of genetic algorithms. Novel crossover operators are proposed such as the Collision crossover, which is based on the physical rules of elastic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Ahmad B. A. Hassanat , Esra'a Alkafaween

The method of Hol\'y, Sokol and \v{C}ern\'y (Applied Soft Computing, 2017, Vol. 60, p. 752-762) clusters objects based on their incidence in a large number of given sets. The idea is to minimize the occurrence of multiple objects from the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Ondřej Sokol , Vladimír Holý

Parent selection methods are widely used in evolutionary computation to accelerate the optimization process, yet their theoretical benefits are still poorly understood. In this paper, we address this gap by proposing a parent selection…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Andre Opris , Denis Antipov

Analyzing large datasets to select optimal features is one of the most important research areas in machine learning and data mining. This feature selection procedure involves dimensionality reduction which is crucial in enhancing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhila Yaseen Taha , Abdulhady Abas Abdullah , Tarik A. Rashid

We introduce genetic algorithms as a means to estimate the accuracy required to discriminate among different models using experimental observables. We exemplify the technique in the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. If…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 B. C. Allanach , D. Grellscheid , F. Quevedo

Global optimization of black-box functions from noisy samples is a fundamental challenge in machine learning and scientific computing. Traditional methods such as Bayesian Optimization often converge to local minima on multi-modal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Qusay Muzaffar , David Levin , Michael Werman

The problem of population recovery refers to estimating a distribution based on incomplete or corrupted samples. Consider a random poll of sample size $n$ conducted on a population of individuals, where each pollee is asked to answer $d$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Yury Polyanskiy , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Yihong Wu

We propose and analyse a variant of the recently introduced kinetic based optimization method that incorporates ideas like survival-of-the-fittest and mutation strategies well-known from genetic algorithms. Thus, we provide a first attempt…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Giacomo Albi , Federica Ferrarese , Claudia Totzeck

Nowadays, optimization problem have more application in all major but they have problem in computation. Computation global point in continuous functions have high calculation and this became clearer in large space .In this paper, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Masoumeh Vali

The NK hybrid genetic algorithm for clustering is proposed in this paper. In order to evaluate the solutions, the hybrid algorithm uses the NK clustering validation criterion 2 (NKCV2). NKCV2 uses information about the disposition of $N$…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Renato Tinós , Liang Zhao , Francisco Chicano , Darrell Whitley

Genetic Algorithms have established their capability for solving many complex optimization problems. Even as good solutions are produced, the user's understanding of a problem is not necessarily improved, which can lead to a lack of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 GianCarlo Catalano , Alexander E. I. Brownlee , David Cairns , John McCall , Russell Ainslie

This paper addresses the path selection problem from a known sender to the receiver. The proposed work shows path selection using genetic algorithm(GA)and simulated annealing (SA) approaches. In genetic algorithm approach, the multi point…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kavitha Sooda

We present an algorithm for the stochastic simulation of gene expression and heterogeneous population dynamics. The algorithm combines an exact method to simulate molecular-level fluctuations in single cells and a constant-number Monte…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Daniel A. Charlebois , Jukka Intosalmi , Dawn Fraser , Mads Kaern

In early-stage architectural design, optimization algorithms are essential for efficiently exploring large and complex design spaces under tight computational constraints. While prior research has benchmarked various optimization methods,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Farnaz Nazari , Wei Yan

Noisy optimization is the optimization of objective functions corrupted by noise. A portfolio of solvers is a set of solvers equipped with an algorithm selection tool for distributing the computational power among them. Portfolios are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Marie-Liesse Cauwet , Jialin Liu , Rozière Baptiste , Olivier Teytaud

Resource constrained job scheduling is a hard combinatorial optimisation problem that originates in the mining industry. Off-the-shelf solvers cannot solve this problem satisfactorily in reasonable timeframes, while other solution methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Su Nguyen , Dhananjay Thiruvady , Yuan Sun , Mengjie Zhang

The search for life outside the Solar System is an endeavour of astronomers all around the world. With hundreds of exoplanets being discovered due to advances in astronomy, there is a need to classify the habitability of these exoplanets.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Sriram Krishna , Niharika Pentapati

We consider population dynamics as implemented by the cloning algorithm for analysis of large deviations of time-averaged quantities. Using the simple symmetric exclusion process as a prototypical example, we investigate the convergence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-11 Tobias Brewer , Stephen R. Clark , Russell Bradford , Robert L. Jack

The 0/1 knapsack problem is weakly NP-hard in that there exist pseudo-polynomial time algorithms based on dynamic programming that can solve it exactly. There are also the core branch and bound algorithms that can solve large randomly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Shalin Shah