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Deep neural networks have recently achieved state of the art performance thanks to new training algorithms for rapid parameter estimation and new regularization methods to reduce overfitting. However, in practice the network architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Minyoung Kim , Luca Rigazio

Deep convolutional networks provide state of the art classifications and regressions results over many high-dimensional problems. We review their architecture, which scatters data with a cascade of linear filter weights and non-linearities.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-27 Stéphane Mallat

Drone imagery is increasingly used in automated inspection for infrastructure surface defects, especially in hazardous or unreachable environments. In machine vision, the key to crack detection rests with robust and accurate algorithms for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Qiuchen Zhu , Tran Hiep Dinh , Manh Duong Phung , Quang Phuc Ha

Neuroevolution is a process of training neural networks (NN) through an evolutionary algorithm, usually to serve as a state-to-action mapping model in control or reinforcement learning-type problems. This paper builds on the Neuro Evolution…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Amir Behjat , Sharat Chidambaran , Souma Chowdhury

Tensor networks are a tool first employed in the context of many-body quantum physics that now have a wide range of uses across the computational sciences, from numerical methods to machine learning. Methods integrating tensor networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 John Gardiner , Javier Lopez-Piqueres

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many visual recognition tasks. However, current CNN models still exhibit a poor ability to be invariant to spatial transformations of images. Intuitively, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Anfeng He , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

Evolutionary computation (EC), as a powerful optimization algorithm, has been applied across various domains. However, as the complexity of problems increases, the limitations of EC have become more apparent. The advent of large language…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jinyu Cai , Jinglue Xu , Jialong Li , Takuto Ymauchi , Hitoshi Iba , Kenji Tei

Various variants of the well known Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) have been proposed recently, which improve the empirical performance of the original algorithm by structural modifications. However, in practice it…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Sander van Rijn , Hao Wang , Matthijs van Leeuwen , Thomas Bäck

This paper investigates the problem of aerial vehicle recognition using a text-guided deep convolutional neural network classifier. The network receives an aerial image and a desired class, and makes a yes or no output by matching the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Amir Soleimani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Elias Griffith , Jason Ralph , Simon Maskell

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) exhibit powerful capabilities for generating natural text. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) can discover diverse solutions to complex real-world problems. Motivated by the common collective and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Chao Wang , Jiaxuan Zhao , Licheng Jiao , Lingling Li , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang

In this paper, we present a novel neuroevolutionary method to identify the architecture and hyperparameters of convolutional autoencoders. Remarkably, we used a hypervolume indicator in the context of neural architecture search for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Daniel Dimanov , Emili Balaguer-Ballester , Colin Singleton , Shahin Rostami

Radio deployments and spectrum planning benefit from path loss predictions. Obstructions along a communications link are often considered implicitly or through derived metrics such as representative clutter height or total obstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Ryan G. Dempsey , Jonathan Ethier , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Numerous concise models such as preferential attachment have been put forward to reveal the evolution mechanisms of real-world networks, which show that real-world networks are usually jointly driven by a hybrid mechanism of multiplex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-12 Qian-Ming Zhang , Xiao-Ke Xu , Yu-Xiao Zhu , Tao Zhou

In this paper we investigate networks whose evolution is governed by the interaction of a random assembly process and an optimization process. In the first process, new nodes are added one at a time and form connections to randomly selected…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-05-16 Markus Brede

We introduce a novel evolutionary algorithm (EA) with a semantic network-based representation. For enabling this, we establish new formulations of EA variation operators, crossover and mutation, that we adapt to work on semantic networks.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Atilim Gunes Baydin , Ramon Lopez de Mantaras , Santiago Ontanon

The performance of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) varies across problems, making it hard to develop new algorithms or apply existing ones to new problems. To simplify the development and application of new multiobjective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yuri Lavinas , Marcelo Ladeira , Gabriela Ochoa , Claus Aranha

Deep learning architectures such as convolutional neural networks are the standard in computer vision for image processing tasks. Their accuracy however often comes at the cost of long and computationally expensive training, the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Mattia Pugliatti , Francesco Topputo

Neuroevolution is a promising area of research that combines evolutionary algorithms with neural networks. A popular subclass of neuroevolutionary methods, called evolution strategies, relies on dense noise perturbations to mutate networks,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Tim Whitaker , Darrell Whitley

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) gives a great opportunity to develop an autonomous devices. The contribution of this work is an improved convolutional neural network (CNN) model and its implementation for the detection of road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Syed Ali Hassan , Tariq Rahim , Soo Young Shin

Dynamic optimization, for which the objective functions change over time, has attracted intensive investigations due to the inherent uncertainty associated with many real-world problems. For its robustness with respect to noise,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Xiaofen Lu , Ke Tang , Stefan Menzel , Xin Yao