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Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Alex Bogdan

Context. Mathematical optimization can be used as a computational tool to obtain the optimal solution to a given problem in a systematic and efficient way. For example, in twice-differentiable functions and problems with no constraints, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-25 J. Canto , S. Curiel , E. Martinez-Gomez

We return to the geometry optimization problem of Lennard-Jones clusters to analyze the performance dependence of "cut and splice" genetic algorithms (GAs) on the employed population size. We generally find that admixing twinning mutation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Vladimir A. Froltsov , Karsten Reuter

The increasing complexity of fog computing environments calls for efficient resource optimization techniques. In this paper, we propose and evaluate three distributed designs of a genetic algorithm (GA) for resource optimization in fog…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Carlos Guerrero , Isaac Lera , Carlos Juiz

Questions in computational molecular biology generate various discrete optimization problems, such as DNA sequence alignment and RNA secondary structure prediction. However, the optimal solutions are fundamentally dependent on the…

The Geant4 toolkit is the standard for simulating the passage of particles through matter, but its conventional architecture often requires users to modify and recompile C++ code to alter fundamental simulation parameters such as geometry,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-13 Jing Liu

For various optimization methods, gradient descent-based algorithms can achieve outstanding performance and have been widely used in various tasks. Among those commonly used algorithms, ADAM owns many advantages such as fast convergence…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Jiyang Bai , Yuxiang Ren , Jiawei Zhang

Genetic algorithms (GAs) have a long history of over four decades. GAs are adaptive heuristic search algorithms that provide solutions for optimization and search problems. The GA derives expression from the biological terminology of…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-03 Kaspar Höschel , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

This paper presents our computational methodology using Genetic Algorithms (GA) for exploring the nature of RNA editing. These models are constructed using several genetic editing characteristics that are gleaned from the RNA editing system…

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We report the development of a combined machine-learning and high-throughput density functional theory (DFT) framework to accelerate the search for new ferroelectric materials. The framework can predict potential ferroelectric compounds…

The design and the implementation of a genetic algorithm are described. The applicability domain is on structure-activity relationships expressed as multiple linear regressions and predictor variables are from families of structure-based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-06-29 Lorentz Jantschi

The application of genetic algorithms (GAs) to many optimization problems in organizations often results in good performance and high quality solutions. For successful and efficient use of GAs, it is not enough to simply apply simple GAs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Maroun Bercachi , Philippe Collard , Manuel Clergue , Sébastien Verel

Modern algorithms for de novo prediction of protein structures typically output multiple full-length models (decoys) rather than a single solution. Subsequent clustering of such decoys is used both to gauge the success of the modelling and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-12 Dmytro Guzenko , Sergei V. Strelkov

In the present work, genetic algorithm method (GA) is applied to the problem of impurity at the center of a spherical quantum dot for infinite confining potential case. For this purpose, any trial variational wave function is considered for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Haluk Safak , Mehmet Sahin , Berna Gulveren , Mehmet Tomak

Finding spanning trees under various constraints is a classic problem with applications in many fields. Recently, a novel notion of "dense" ("sparse") tree, and in particular spanning tree (DST and SST respectively), is introduced as the…

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Feature selection, as a critical pre-processing step for machine learning, aims at determining representative predictors from a high-dimensional feature space dataset to improve the prediction accuracy. However, the increase in feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-16 Fatemeh Amini , Guiping Hu

Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) has many modifications across a variety of implementations, such as recursive connections and node weights. Alternative genetic operators have also been proposed for CGP, but have not been fully studied.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-10 DG Wilson , Julian F. Miller , Sylvain Cussat-Blanc , Hervé Luga

A genetic algorithm is suitable for exploring large search spaces as it finds an approximate solution. Because of this advantage, genetic algorithm is effective in exploring vast and unknown space such as molecular search space. Though the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Yurim Lee , Gydam Choi , Minsung Yoon , Cheongwon Kim

This paper details the application of a genetic programming framework for classification of decision tree of Soil data to classify soil texture. The database contains measurements of soil profile data. We have applied GATree for generating…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-11-04 P. Bhargavi , S. Jyothi

The rapid advancement of DNA sequencing has produced vast genomic datasets, yet interpreting and engineering genomic function remain fundamental challenges. Recent large language models have opened new avenues for genomic analysis, but…