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Genetic algorithms (GAs) emulate the process of biological evolution, in a computational setting, in order to generate good solutions to difficult search and optimisation problems. GA-based optimisers tend to be extremely robust and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-09 Vinesh Rajpaul

Many real-world optimization problems are not naturally homogeneous vectors but composite design objects with heterogeneous parameters: integers, real values, Booleans, categoricals, complex-valued descriptors, and embedding vectors.…

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

Genetic algorithm (GA) is an efficient tool for solving optimization problems by evolving solutions, as it mimics the Darwinian theory of natural evolution. The mutation operator is one of the key success factors in GA, as it is considered…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Esra'a Alkafaween , Ahmad B. A. Hassanat

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to discover drug candidates by finding molecules (ligands) that bind tightly to a disease-related protein (targets), which is the primary approach to computer-aided drug discovery. Recently, applying…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-01 Tianfan Fu , Wenhao Gao , Connor W. Coley , Jimeng Sun

One of the main limitations of utilizing optimal wavefront shaping in imaging and authentication applications is the slow speed of the optimization algorithms currently being used. To address this problem we develop a micro-genetic…

State-space models (SSMs) are commonly used to model time series data where the observations depend on an unobserved latent process. However, inference on the model parameters of an SSM can be challenging, especially when the likelihood of…

Computation · Statistics 2023-08-08 Mary Llewellyn , Ruth King , Víctor Elvira , Gordon Ross

A new approach which generalizes the Selective Modal Analyis (SMA) and algorithms based upon it for solving the generalized eigenvalue problem is described. This approach allows for the systematic consideration of physical properties of the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julian Barquin

Numerical simulation of continuous-time Markovian processes is an essential and widely applied tool in the investigation of epidemic spreading on complex networks. Due to the high heterogeneity of the connectivity structure through which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-26 Wesley Cota , Silvio C. Ferreira

Pair Hidden Markov Models (PHMMs) are probabilistic models used for pairwise sequence alignment, a quintessential problem in bioinformatics. PHMMs include three types of hidden states: match, insertion and deletion. Most previous studies…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-17 Taikai Takeda , Michiaki Hamada

It is well established that gene expression can be modeled as a Markovian stochastic process and hence proper observables might be subjected to large fluctuations and rare events. Since dynamics is often more than statics, one can work with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Pegah Torkaman , Farhad H. Jafarpour

We investigate a family of $(\mu+\lambda)$ Genetic Algorithms (GAs) which creates offspring either from mutation or by recombining two randomly chosen parents. By scaling the crossover probability, we can thus interpolate from a fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Furong Ye , Hao Wang , Carola Doerr , Thomas Bäck

A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is proposed in which each member of the population can change schemata only with its neighbors according to a rule. The rule methodology and the neighborhood structure employ elements from the Cellular Automata (CA)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-11-16 Vasileios Barmpoutis , Gary F. Dargush

We present a Python package together with a practical guide for the implementation of a lightweight diversity-enhanced genetic algorithm (GA) approach for the exploration of multi-dimensional parameter spaces. Searching a parameter space…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jonas Wessén , Eliel Camargo-Molina

Feature selection plays a pivotal role in the data preprocessing and model-building pipeline, significantly enhancing model performance, interpretability, and resource efficiency across diverse domains. In population-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Sevil Zanjani Miyandoab , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Sevda Ebrahimi , Masoud Makrehchi

Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are popular models to identify a finite number of latent states from sequential data. However, fitting them to large data sets can be computationally demanding because most likelihood maximization techniques…

A genetic algorithm (GA) is a search-based optimization technique based on the principles of Genetics and Natural Selection. We present an algorithm which enhances the classical GA with input from quantum annealers. As in a classical GA,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Steven Abel , Luca A. Nutricati , Michael Spannowsky

This work proposes a multi-agent filtering algorithm over graphs for finite-state hidden Markov models (HMMs), which can be used for sequential state estimation or for tracking opinion formation over dynamic social networks. We show that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Mert Kayaalp , Virginia Bordignon , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Cellular automata are discrete and computational models thatcan be shown as general models of complexity. They are used in varied applications to derive the generalized behavior of the presented model. In this paper we have took one such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Karan Nayak

In this paper, we consider statistical estimation of time-inhomogeneous aggregate Markov models. Unaggregated models, which corresponds to Markov chains, are commonly used in multi-state life insurance to model the biometric states of an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Jamaal Ahmad , Mogens Bladt

In life sciences, the experts generally use empirical knowledge to recode variables, choose interactions and perform selection by classical approach. The aim of this work is to perform automatic learning algorithm for variables selection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-05 Bienvenue Kouwayè , Noël Fonton , Fabrice Rossi