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The recent growth of emergent network applications (e.g., satellite networks, vehicular networks) is increasing the complexity of managing modern communication networks. As a result, the community proposed the Digital Twin Networks (DTN) as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Carlos Güemes-Palau , Paul Almasan , Shihan Xiao , Xiangle Cheng , Xiang Shi , Pere Barlet-Ros , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

In the last decade, deep learning has become a major component of artificial intelligence. The workhorse of deep learning is the optimization of loss functions by stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Traditionally in deep learning, neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Benjamin Scellier

Artificial Intelligence algorithms have been steadily increasing in popularity and usage. Deep Learning, allows neural networks to be trained using huge datasets and also removes the need for human extracted features, as it automates the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Vasco Lopes , Paulo Fazendeiro

Currently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) are used to solve all kinds of problems in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence due to their learning and adaptation capabilities. However, most successful DCNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Francisco Erivaldo Fernandes Junior , Gary G. Yen

Training deep neural networks on large-scale datasets requires significant hardware resources whose costs (even on cloud platforms) put them out of reach of smaller organizations, groups, and individuals. Backpropagation, the workhorse for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved impressive performance in many complex environments due to the integration with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). At the same time, Genetic Algorithms (GAs), often seen as a competing approach to RL, had…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Cristian Bodnar , Ben Day , Pietro Lió

Neuroevolution has recently been shown to be quite competitive in reinforcement learning (RL) settings, and is able to alleviate some of the drawbacks of gradient-based approaches. This paper will focus on applying neuroevolution using a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Tarek Faycal , Claudio Zito

Neural network optimization remains one of the most consequential yet poorly understood challenges in modern AI research, where improvements in training algorithms can lead to enhanced feature learning in foundation models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ansh Nagwekar

State-of-the-art Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) often incorporate multi-branch connections, enabling multi-scale feature extraction and enhancing the capture of diverse features. This design improves network capacity and generalisation to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Fergal Stapleton , Daniel García Núñez , Yanan Sun , Edgar Galván

Deep neural network learning can be formulated as a non-convex optimization problem. Existing optimization algorithms, e.g., Adam, can learn the models fast, but may get stuck in local optima easily. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Jiawei Zhang , Fisher B. Gouza

An important goal for the machine learning (ML) community is to create approaches that can learn solutions with human-level capability. One domain where humans have held a significant advantage is visual processing. A significant approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Phillip Verbancsics , Josh Harguess

Reinforcement learning (RL) problems often feature deceptive local optima, and learning methods that optimize purely for reward signal often fail to learn strategies for overcoming them. Deep neuroevolution and novelty search have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Ethan C. Jackson , Mark Daley

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are well-known to be vulnerable to Adversarial Examples (AEs). A large amount of efforts have been spent to launch and heat the arms race between the attackers and defenders. Recently, advanced gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Han Qiu , Yi Zeng , Qinkai Zheng , Tianwei Zhang , Meikang Qiu , Gerard Memmi

The performance of a deep neural network is heavily dependent on its architecture and various neural architecture search strategies have been developed for automated network architecture design. Recently, evolutionary neural architecture…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Haoyu Zhang , Yaochu Jin , Ran Cheng , Kuangrong Hao

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become one of the dominant methods for deep generative modeling. Despite their demonstrated success on multiple vision tasks, GANs are difficult to train and much research has been dedicated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Abdullah Al-Dujaili , Tom Schmiedlechner , and Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) have recently been integrated to take the advantage of the both methods for better exploration and exploitation.The evolutionary part in these hybrid methods maintains a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yan Ma , Tianxing Liu , Bingsheng Wei , Yi Liu , Kang Xu , Wei Li

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing our lives at an ever increasing pace. At the heart of this revolution is the recent advancements in deep neural networks (DNN), learning to perform sophisticated, high-level tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Nima Dehmamy , Neda Rohani , Aggelos Katsaggelos

An evolution strategy (ES) variant based on a simplification of a natural evolution strategy recently attracted attention because it performs surprisingly well in challenging deep reinforcement learning domains. It searches for neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Joel Lehman , Jay Chen , Jeff Clune , Kenneth O. Stanley

We propose a genetic algorithm (GA) for hyperparameter optimization of artificial neural networks which includes chromosomal crossover as well as a decoupling of parameters (i.e., weights and biases) from hyperparameters (e.g., learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Aaron Vose , Jacob Balma , Alex Heye , Alessandro Rigazzi , Charles Siegel , Diana Moise , Benjamin Robbins , Rangan Sukumar

Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning (ERL) that applying Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) to optimize the weight parameters of Deep Neural Network (DNN) based policies has been widely regarded as an alternative to traditional reinforcement…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Lan Tang , Xiaxi Li , Jinyuan Zhang , Guiying Li , Peng Yang , Ke Tang