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This paper presents a novel Differential Evolution algorithm for protein folding optimization that is applied to a three-dimensional AB off-lattice model. The proposed algorithm includes two new mechanisms. A local search is used to improve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Borko Bošković , Janez Brest

This work concerns the evolutionary approaches to distributed stochastic black-box optimization, in which each worker can individually solve an approximation of the problem with nature-inspired algorithms. We propose a distributed evolution…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Xiaoyu He , Zibin Zheng , Chuan Chen , Yuren Zhou , Chuan Luo , Qingwei Lin

Two-dimensional (2D) Multiple Signal Classification algorithm is a powerful technique for high-resolution direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in array signal processing. However, the exhaustive search over the 2D an-gular domain leads to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Bo Zhou , Kaijie Xu , Yinghui Quan , Mengdao Xing

NeuroEvolution (NE) methods are known for applying Evolutionary Computation to the optimisation of Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs). Despite aiding non-expert users to design and train ANNs, the vast majority of NE approaches disregard the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Filipe Assunção , Nuno Lourenço , Bernardete Ribeiro , Penousal Machado

The use of Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) for solving Mathematical/Computational Optimization Problems is inspired by the biological processes of Evolution. Few of the primitives involved in the Evolutionary process/paradigm are selection of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Parthasarathy Srinivasan

Heuristic optimisation algorithms are in high demand due to the overwhelming amount of complex optimisation problems that need to be solved. The complexity of these problems is well beyond the boundaries of applicability of exact…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Bas van Stein , Fabio Caraffini , Anna V. Kononova

Working towards the development of an evolvable cancer treatment simulator, the investigation of Differential Evolution was considered, motivated by the high efficiency of variations of this technique in real-valued problems. A basic DE…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas , Larry Bull , Andrew Adamatzky , Igor Balaz

Despite significant efforts to manually design high-performance evolutionary algorithms, their adaptability remains limited due to the dynamic and ever-evolving nature of real-world problems. The "no free lunch" theorem highlights that no…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xu Yang , Rui Wang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Ling Wang

Neural architecture search (NAS) methods rely on a search strategy for deciding which architectures to evaluate next and a performance estimation strategy for assessing their performance (e.g., using full evaluations, multi-fidelity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Noor Awad , Neeratyoy Mallik , Frank Hutter

Differential evolution (DE) is a simple but powerful evolutionary algorithm, which has been widely and successfully used in various areas. In this paper, an event-triggered impulsive control scheme (ETI) is introduced to improve the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Wei Du , Sunney Yung Sun Leung , Yang Tang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Solving constrained optimization problems by multi-objective evolutionary algorithms has scored tremendous achievements in the last decade. Standard multi-objective schemes usually aim at minimizing the objective function and also the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Tao Xu , Jun He

Evolutionary algorithms are metaheuristic techniques that derive inspiration from the natural process of evolution. They can efficiently solve (generate acceptable quality of solution in reasonable time) complex optimization (NP-Hard)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Anupriya Gogna , Akash Tayal

Grid computing is the recently growing area of computing that share data, storage, computing across geographically dispersed area. This paper proposes a novel fuzzy approach using Differential Evolution (DE) for scheduling jobs on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Ch. Srinivasa Rao , B. Raveendra Babu

Existing multi-strategy adaptive differential evolution (DE) commonly involves trials of multiple strategies and then rewards better-performing ones with more resources. However, the trials of an exploitative or explorative strategy may…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Sheng Xin Zhang , Wing Shing Chan , Kit Sang Tang , Shao Yong Zheng

Training multi-layer neural networks (MLNNs), a challenging task, involves finding appropriate weights and biases. MLNN training is important since the performance of MLNNs is mainly dependent on these network parameters. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad , Diego Oliva , Salvador Hinojosa , Gerald Schaefer

Although differential evolution (DE) algorithms perform well on a large variety of complicated optimization problems, only a few theoretical studies are focused on the working principle of DE algorithms. To make the first attempt to reveal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Cong Wang , Jun He , Yu Chen , Xiufen Zou

Increasing nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms are applied to solving the real-world optimization problems, as they have some advantages over the classical methods of numerical optimization. This paper has proposed a new…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bing Zeng , Liang Gao , Xinyu Li

High-dimensional portfolio optimization faces significant computational challenges under complex constraints, with traditional optimization methods struggling to balance convergence speed and global exploration capability. To address this,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Mingyang Yu , Jiaqi Zhang , Haorui Yang , Adam Slowik , Jun Zhang , Jing Xu

The presence of functional diversity within a group has been demonstrated to lead to greater robustness, higher performance and increased problem-solving ability in a broad range of studies that includes insect groups, human groups and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Emma Hart , Andreas S. W. Steyven , Ben Paechter

Zeroth-order local optimisation algorithms are essential for solving real-valued black-box optimisation problems. Among these, Natural Evolution Strategies (NES) represent a prominent class, particularly well-suited for scenarios where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Pierre Osselin , Masaki Adachi , Xiaowen Dong , Michael A. Osborne