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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a metaheuristic global optimization paradigm that has gained prominence in the last two decades due to its ease of application in unsupervised, complex multidimensional problems which cannot be solved…

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The combining of a General-Purpose Particle Swarm Optimizer (GP-PSO) with Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) algorithm for constrained optimization problems has been shown to be highly beneficial to the refinement, and in some cases,…

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Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is an iterative search method that moves a set of candidate solution around a search-space towards the best known global and local solutions with randomized step lengths. PSO frequently accelerates…

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Though mostly used as a clustering algorithm, k-means are originally designed as a quantization algorithm. Namely, it aims at providing a compression of a probability distribution with k points. Building upon [21, 33], we try to investigate…

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Mixed-precision quantization offers superior performance to fixed-precision quantization. It has been widely used in signal processing, communication systems, and machine learning. In mixed-precision quantization, bit allocation is…

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Business optimization is becoming increasingly important because all business activities aim to maximize the profit and performance of products and services, under limited resources and appropriate constraints. Recent developments in…

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Deep learning has been successfully applied in several fields such as machine translation, manufacturing, and pattern recognition. However, successful application of deep learning depends upon appropriately setting its parameters to achieve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Basheer Qolomany , Majdi Maabreh , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Ajay Gupta , Driss Benhaddou

The aim of paper is to apply two types of particle swarm optimization, global best andlocal best PSO to a constrained maximum likelihood estimation problem in pseudotime anal-ysis, a sub-field in bioinformatics. The results have shown that…

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Automatic text summarization tools have a great impact on many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research in general. As information overload increases, automatic summaries allow handling the growing volume of documents, usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Augusto Villa-Monte , Laura Lanzarini , Aurelio F. Bariviera , José A. Olivas

The detection and estimation of gravitational wave (GW) signals belonging to a parameterized family of waveforms requires, in general, the numerical maximization of a data-dependent function of the signal parameters. Due to noise in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty

Swarm based optimization algorithms have demonstrated remarkable success in solving complex optimization problems. However, their widespread adoption remains sceptical due to limited transparency in how different algorithmic components…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Nitin Gupta , Bapi Dutta , Anupam Yadav

Obtaining the set of cosmological parameters consistent with observational data is an important exercise in current cosmological research. It involves finding the global maximum of the likelihood function in the multi-dimensional parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-03 Jayanti Prasad , Tarun Souradeep

The purpose of this paper is to improve the traditional K-means algorithm. In the traditional K mean clustering algorithm, the initial clustering centers are generated randomly in the data set. It is easy to fall into the local minimum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Su Chang , Xu Zhenzong , Gao Xuan

Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) makes use of a dynamical system for solving a search task. Instead of adding search biases in order to improve performance in certain problems, we aim to remove algorithm-induced scales by controlling the…

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We develop qubit Hamiltonian single parameter estimation techniques using a Bayesian approach. The algorithms considered are restricted to projective measurements in a fixed basis, and are derived under the assumption that the qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-17 Alexandr Sergeevich , Stephen D. Bartlett

Model merging has emerged as an efficient strategy for constructing multitask models by integrating the strengths of multiple available expert models, thereby reducing the need to fine-tune a pre-trained model for all the tasks from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Kehao Zhang , Shaolei Zhang , Yang Feng

The article presents a study of the Particle Swarm optimization method for scheduling problem. To improve the method's performance a restriction of particles' velocity and an evolutionary meta-optimization were realized. The approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Pavel Matrenin , Viktor Sekaev

K-means is undoubtedly the most widely used partitional clustering algorithm. Unfortunately, due to its gradient descent nature, this algorithm is highly sensitive to the initial placement of the cluster centers. Numerous initialization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-11 M. Emre Celebi , Hassan A. Kingravi , Patricio A. Vela

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a popular nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving continuous optimization problems. Although this technique is widely used, the understanding of the mechanisms that make swarms so successful is still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Vanessa Lange , Manuel Schmitt , Rolf Wanka

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a widely used nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving continuous optimization problems. However, when running the PSO algorithm, one encounters the phenomenon of so-called stagnation, that means in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-09 Manuel Schmitt , Rolf Wanka