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GA LLM is a hybrid framework that combines Genetic Algorithms with Large Language Models to handle structured generation tasks under strict constraints. Each output, such as a plan or report, is treated as a gene, and evolutionary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 William Shum , Rachel Chan , Jonas Lin , Benny Feng , Patrick Lau

Mathematical formulas serve as a language through which humans communicate with nature. Discovering mathematical laws from scientific data to describe natural phenomena has been a long-standing pursuit of humanity for centuries. In the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yanjie Li , Liping Zhang , Min Wu , Weijun Li , Lina Yu , Jingyi Liu , Yusong Deng , Mingzhu Wan , Xin Ning

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

Genetic algorithms have played an important role in engineering optimization. Traditional GAs treat each gene separately. However, biophysical studies of gene regulatory networks revealed direct associations between different genes. It…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Zhaoning Shi , Meng Xiang , Zhaoyang Hai , Xiabi Liu , Yan Pei

This paper explores the seamless integration of Generative AI (GenAI) and Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) within the domain of large-scale multi-objective optimization. Focusing on the transformative role of Large Language Models (LLMs), our…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Gaurav Singh , Kavitesh Kumar Bali

Sparse regularized regression methods are now widely used in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to address the multiple testing burden that limits discovery of potentially important predictors. Linear mixed models (LMMs) have become an…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-27 Julien St-Pierre , Karim Oualkacha , Sahir Rai Bhatnagar

Decision trees are a crucial class of models offering robust predictive performance and inherent interpretability across various domains, including healthcare, finance, and logistics. However, current tree induction methods often face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Tennison Liu , Nicolas Huynh , Mihaela van der Schaar

Phenotype-driven gene prioritization is a critical process in the diagnosis of rare genetic disorders for identifying and ranking potential disease-causing genes based on observed physical traits or phenotypes. While traditional approaches…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-04 Junyoung Kim , Jingye Yang , Kai Wang , Chunhua Weng , Cong Liu

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated significant potential in certain real-world industrial applications, yet its broader deployment remains limited by inherent challenges such as sample inefficiency and unstable learning dynamics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Tom Maus , Asma Atamna , Tobias Glasmachers

Symbolic regression is the task of identifying a mathematical expression that best fits a provided dataset of input and output values. Due to the richness of the space of mathematical expressions, symbolic regression is generally a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mojtaba Valipour , Bowen You , Maysum Panju , Ali Ghodsi

The objective of this paper is to define an effective strategy for building an ensemble of Genetic Programming (GP) models. Ensemble methods are widely used in machine learning due to their features: they average out biases, they reduce the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Mauro Castelli , Ivo Gonçalves , Luca Manzoni , Leonardo Vanneschi

We propose a novel surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for solving expensive combinatorial optimization problems. We integrate a surrogate model, which is used for fitness value estimation, into a state-of-the-art P3-like variant of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

This paper proposes a hybrid basis function construction method (GP-RVM) for Symbolic Regression problem, which combines an extended version of Genetic Programming called Kaizen Programming and Relevance Vector Machine to evolve an optimal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Hossein Izadi Rad , Ji Feng , Hitoshi Iba

Existing genetic programming (GP) methods are typically designed based on a certain representation, such as tree-based or linear representations. These representations show various pros and cons in different domains. However, due to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhixing Huang , Yi Mei , Fangfang Zhang , Mengjie Zhang , Wolfgang Banzhaf

We present a novel Auxiliary Truth enhanced Genetic Algorithm (GA) that uses logical or mathematical constraints as a means of data augmentation as well as to compute loss (in conjunction with the traditional MSE), with the aim of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Dhananjay Ashok , Joseph Scott , Sebastian Wetzel , Maysum Panju , Vijay Ganesh

Large-scale language models such as DNABert and LOGO aim to learn optimal gene representations and are trained on the entire Human Reference Genome. However, standard tokenization schemes involve a simple sliding window of tokens like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Soumyadeep Roy , Jonas Wallat , Sowmya S Sundaram , Wolfgang Nejdl , Niloy Ganguly

Genomic language models (gLMs) have shown mostly modest success in identifying evolutionarily constrained elements in mammalian genomes. To address this issue, we introduce a novel framework for training gLMs that explicitly models…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-23 Carlos Albors , Jianan Canal Li , Gonzalo Benegas , Chengzhong Ye , Yun S. Song

Expensive optimization problems (EOPs) are black-box tasks with costly objective evaluations and no gradient access, making the evaluation budget the key bottleneck. Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) reduce evaluations via…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ye Lu , Bingdong Li , Aimin Zhou , Hao Hao

Discovering important genes that account for the phenotype of interest has long been challenging in genomewide expression analysis. Analyses such as Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) that incorporate pathway information have become…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-01-23 Yaohui Zeng , Patrick Breheny

Symbolic regression (SR) models complex systems by discovering mathematical expressions that capture underlying relationships in observed data. However, most SR methods prioritize minimizing prediction error over identifying the governing…

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